SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University will host more than 30 college and club teams and nearly 1,100 track and field athletes Saturday at the Dave Labor Alumni Invitational at the William Lennox Track at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.
 
LOGISTICS
- Date: Saturday, April 6
- Time: Field events begin at 10 a.m., Track events begin at 10:30 a.m.
- Location: Slippery Rock University – Slippery Rock, Pa.
- Facility: William Lennox Track at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium
 
POLE VAULT UPDATE
Due to weather conditions that will make it unsafe for vaulting outdoors, we will be moving the pole vault indoors. Our indoor facility is not available, so the competition will be held at "The Vault Shack" in Volant, Pennsylvania. The facility will open at 8 a.m. for teams to drop off athletes and poles, with the competition starting at 10:30 a.m. The Vault Shack is located at 263 Golf Course Road, Volant, PA, 16156.
 
MEET INFO
- Meet Schedule (PDF)
- Entries / Performance List
- Heat Sheets / Meet Program
 
LIVE COVERAGE
- Live Results
 
COLLEGE TEAMS AND CLUBS COMPETING
Allegheny, Carnegie Mellon, Chatham, Clarion, D'Youville, Daemen, Duquesne, Edinboro, Franciscan (Ohio), Gannon, Geneva, Grove City, Indiana (Pa.), Industrial Vault Club, John Carroll, Kent State-Trumbull, Lake Erie, Malone, Mercyhurst, Pitt-Johnstown, Point Park, Penn State-Behrend, Penn State-Fayette, Robert Morris, Schatz Track Club, Slippery Rock, St. Vincent, Thiel, Ursuline, Washington & Jefferson, Waynesburg, West Virginia Wesleyan, Westminster, Wheeling.
 
MEET STATS
- 68 total teams and clubs counting men and women's teams
- 1,099 unique athletes entered
- 1,992 total entries
- Teams from NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA and USCAA
 
PSAC/NCAA QUALIFYING STANDARDS
• 2024 Qualifying Standards
• PSAC Performance List
• NCAA DII Performance List
 
ABOUT THE DAVE LABOR INVITATIONAL
This marks the first of two home meets this spring for Slippery Rock and is the largest college meet SRU will host this year. The meet is named after the late Dave Labor, a former sprints and hurdles assistant coach at SRU. Labor coached 17 All-Americans and 66 individual PSAC champions over 17 seasons at The Rock before passing away in 2011 after a battle with cancer. This meet includes an SRU Alumni 100-Meter Dash that will take place after the open 100-meter dash. All SRU track and field alumni are invited to run in that race.
 
QUICK MEN'S PREVIEW
Slippery Rock enters the meet with seven performances this spring that rank in the top 30 among all Division II athletes, which includes the No. 28 ranked 4x100-meter relay. That group of Kanye Thompson, AJ Virata, Matthew Crow and Bryan Dworek clocked a season-best time of 41.18 seconds last week.
 
The Rock's highest ranked athlete is pole vaulter Dan Hyatt, who enters the weekend ranked No. 11 in Division II with a clearance of 5.00 meters. SRU has two shot putters in the top 30 with Joshua Gose leading the way at No. 15 (16.90m) and Seaton Wozniak ranked No. 22 (16.44m).
 
Josh Kingerski ranks 21st nationally in the javelin with a throw of 61.13 meters. A pair of multi-event athletes round out the top 30 ranked SRU athletes with Zack Duda ranked No. 21 in the decathlon (5,772 points) and Gavin Thomas ranked No. 23 (5,704 points).
 
In addition to the athletes ranked in the top 30 nationally, Slippery Rock also ranks first in the PSAC in six events entering the weekend. Kanye Thompson owns the top 100-meter dash time (10.70) with AJ Virata ranked second (10.74). Matthew Crow ranks first in the 110-meter hurdles (14.81). Ethan Brentham has the top time in the 10,000-meter run (31:18.28) and the SRU 4x400-meter relay ranks first in the PSAC as well (3:19.39). In the field, Joshua Gose leads the PSAC in the shot put (16.90m) and Gavin Thomas is No. 1 in the long jump (7.02m).
 
A look at the top two entries for SRU in each event this week can be found below. The full entry list is available HERE.
 
TOP SRU MEN'S ENTRIES
• 100m: AJ Virata, Kanye Thompson
• 200m: AJ Virata, Kyle Rauchut
• 400m: Micah Good, Jacob Thompson
• 800m: Ryan Corbitt
• 1,500m: Devon Navaroli, John Juszynski
• 10,000m: Troy Hart, Tucker Davis
• 110m HH: Matthew Crow, Brenden Lewis
• 400m IH: Matthew Crow, Cade Adams
• 3,000m Steeplechase: Noah Johnson
• 4x100m Relay: Thompson, Virata, Crow, Dworek
• 4x400m Relay: Virata, Good, Huha, Rauchut
• HJ: Logan Turton, Zack Duda
• PV: Dan Hyatt, Bradon Schneider
• LJ: Bryan Dworek, Gavin Thomas
• TJ: Taye Lynch, Ian James
• SP: Joshua Gose, Seaton Wozniak
• DT: Seaton Wozniak, Joshua Gose
• HT: Zach Gose, Joshua Rohland
• JT: Josh Kingerski, Joseph Reed
 
QUICK WOMEN'S PREVIEW
Slippery Rock enters the weekend with 10 performances that rank in the top 30 in Division II this spring, headlined by Anna Igims with a pair of top-15 performances. She ranks No. 9 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:45.89) and No. 13 in the 5,000-meter run (16:49.33). Igims ranks No. 1 in the PSAC in both of those events and also ranks No. 1 in the 1,500-meter run (4:37.71).
 
Lydia Latimer is the next-highest ranked SRU athlete and enters the weekend ranked No. 12 in the heptathlon with a score of 4,284 points. Lorna Speigle ranks No. 17 (4,132 points) and Maddy Miller is No. 24 (3,915 points) as SRU currently has three athletes ranked in the top 25 in the multi.
 
Sarah Corrie leads the throwers and enters this weekend ranked No. 14 in the shot put (14.16m). Olivia Heckman ranks No. 24 in the same event (13.77m) and those two are currently the top two marks in the PSAC. SRU actually owns the four best shot put throws in the league this spring with Becca Martin ranked third (13.32m) and Savannah Schneck ranked fourth (12.76m). Isabella Bartoletti ranks No. 20 nationally in the javelin (42.57m) and Tiffany Jolayemi is No. 23 nationally and No. 1 in the PSAC in the hammer (51.53m).
 
Kendall Grossman rounds out the top ranked SRU athletes at No. 22 in the pole vault with a clearance of 3.73 meters.
 
A look at the top two entries for SRU in each event this week can be found below. The full entry list is available HERE.
 
TOP SRU WOMEN'S ENTRIES
• 100m: Samantha Gilbert, Regan Johnson
• 200m: Thai-Lin Pierce, Samantha Gilbert
• 400m: Lydia Latimer, Alice Bogia
• 800m: Jennifer Cichra, Madison Murtland
• 1,500m: Madison Murtland, Katie Plassio
• 5,000m: Lizzie Higgins, Lydia Valeriano
• 100m HH: Chaley Younkin, Chalondra Clarke
• 400m LH: Rachel Veneziano, Chaley Younkin
• 3,000m Steeplechase: Marie Scarpa, Morgan Dennison
• 4x100m: Gilbert, Johnson, Miller, Pierce
• 4x400m: Veneziano, Stauffer, McCullough, Reed
• HJ: Cassidy Davis, Paige Griffith
• PV: Allie Taylor, Hanna Zeiler
• LJ: Baylee Blauser, Samantha Gilbert
• TJ: Aleks Brozeski, Alice Bogia
• SP: Sarah Corrie, Olivia Heckman
• DT: Tiffany Jolayemi, Sarah Corrie
• HT: Tiffany Jolayemi, Savannah Schneck
• JT: Isabella Bartoletti, Olivia Heckman
 
RECAP AND RESULTS
Recaps and results will be posted to www.RockAthletics.com Saturday night at the conclusion of the meet. Results will be posted to the track & field schedule pages and to the SRU Hosted Events Page as soon as possible after the conclusion of the meet.





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