SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University will host more than 1,200 track and field athletes from 37 different colleges Friday and Saturday at the Dave Labor Alumni Invitational at the William Lennox Track at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.
 
LOGISTICS
- Dates: Friday, April 4 (hammer only) and Saturday, April 5
- Times: Friday hammer begins at 1:30 p.m. Saturday begins at 10 a.m.
- Location: Slippery Rock University – Slippery Rock, Pa.
- Facility: William Lennox Track at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium *
* Pole Vault Info: If the weather is deemed unsafe for the pole vault, the pole vault only will be moved inside to Morrow Field House.
 
MEET INFO
- Meet Schedule (PDF)
- Heat Sheets / Meet Program
 
LIVE COVERAGE
- Live Results (provided by Wolf Creek Timing Company)
 
COLLEGE TEAMS COMPETING
Allegheny, California (Pa.), Carlow, Carnegie Mellon, Chatham, Clarion, D'Youville, Drew, Duquesne, Edinboro, Eureka, Gannon, Geneva, Grove City, Kent State, Lake Erie, Malone, Mansfield, Mercyhurst, Mount Union, Mount Vernon Nazarene, Pitt.-Johnstown, Point Park, Penn State-Behrend, Penn State-Fayette, Robert Morris, Seton Hill, Slippery Rock, St. Vincent, Thiel, Washington & Jefferson, Waynesburg, West Virginia Wesleyan, Westminster (Pa.), Wheeling, Youngstown State
 
MEET STATS
- 68 total teams counting men and women's teams
- 37 different colleges represented
- 1,234 unique athletes entered
- 2,086 total entries
- Teams from NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA and USCAA
- More than 130 SRU athletes set to compete
 
PSAC/NCAA QUALIFYING STANDARDS
• 2025 Qualifying Standards
• PSAC Performance List
• NCAA DII Performance List
 
ABOUT THE DAVE LABOR INVITATIONAL
This marks the first of four 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.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK MEN'S TEAM UPDATE
The Rock men enter the weekend with 13 performances that currently rank in the top 50 among all Division II teams and athletes this spring, including five that rank in the top 20. The highest-ranked performance of the year is the 4x100-meter relay team of Benny Whitaker, AJ Virata, Matthew Crow and Kanye Thompson, which ranks 11th in the nation with their SRU record of 40.50 seconds. Crow also ranks 40th nationally in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.60 seconds. John Juszynski rounds out the top times on the track with his steeplechase mark of 9:33.94 ranked 40th nationally.
 
Seaton Wozniak leads three SRU men that rank in the top 32 in Division II in the shot put with his provisional mark of 17.05 meters currently sitting No. 14 in the nation. Joshua Gose ranks 19th at 16.74 meters and Logan Parker is 32nd at 16.24 meters. Zach Gose and Josh Kingerski give SRU two more throwers ranked in the top 40 nationally with Kingerski sitting 35th in the javelin at 60.11 meters and Gose ranked 40th in the hammer at 54.51 meters.
 
Dan Hyatt leads the way in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.85 meters ranking No. 20 in the nation, while Drew Layton ranks 34th with a mark of 4.70 meters. A trio of multi-event athletes round out the top 40 marks with Zack Duda currently sitting 13th nationally in the decathlon with a score of 5,935 points. Ethan Folmer is 33rd at 5,282 points and Jacob Stucchio is 38th at 5,037 points.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK WOMEN'S TEAM UPDATE
Slippery Rock enters the weekend with three athletes that own top 50 marks in Division II this spring, headlined by Anna Igims with the No. 2 time in the country in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with her SRU record of 10:19.02.
 
Baylee Blauser enters the meet ranked 28th in the long jump with a mark of 5.71 meters and Isabella Bartoletti is 37th in the javelin with a toss of 40.30 meters.
 
SRU also has 12 other women that enter the weekend ranked in the top 10 in the Atlantic Region, including a trio of shot put throwers. Sarah Corrie ranks third in the region at 12.87 meters, followed by Becca Martin at sixth (12.56m) and Olivia Heckman at eighth (12.35) in the latest regional rankings. Autumn Stewart ranks ninth in the region in the hammer (46.04m) to give SRU five total throwing efforts ranked in the top 10 in the region.
 
Maddy Miller leads a trio of multi-event athletes in the heptathlon with her score of 3,538 points ranked fifth in the region. Leighanne Swan (3,227 points) and Autumn Wyatt (3,080 points) rank eighth and 10th in the region. Paige Griffith (1.62m) and Sophia Yard (1.60m) rank eighth and ninth in the region in the high jump and Allie Taylor is fourth in the region in the pole vault (3.50m) to round out the top efforts in the field.
 
Morgan Dennison joins Igims in owning a top three mark in the region in the steeplechase as she ranks third with a time of 11:50.95 and Jianna Long rounds out the top efforts on the track with her 400-meter time of 57.53 ranking 10th in the region.
 
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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