SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University will host more than 1,000 track & field athletes from 26 different colleges Friday and Saturday at the Dave Labor Alumni Invitational at the William Lennox Track at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.
 
LOGISTICS
- Dates: Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4
- Friday Schedule: Field events begin at 1 p.m., track at 4 p.m.
- Saturday Schedule: Events begin at 10 a.m.
- Location: Slippery Rock University – Slippery Rock, Pa.
- Facility: William Lennox Track at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium
 
MEET INFO
- Meet Schedule (PDF)
- Accepted Entries List (PDF)
 
LIVE COVERAGE
- Live Results (provided by Wolf Creek Timing Company)
 
COLLEGIATE TEAMS ATTENDING (26)
Alfred State, Allegheny, Baldwin Wallace, California (Pa.), Carnegie Mellon, Charleston, Clarion, Davis & Elkins, Duquesne, Edinboro, Geneva, Grove City, Indiana (Pa.), Kent State, Mercyhurst, Mount Union, Pittsburgh, Point Park, Penn State Behrend, Slippery Rock, Thiel, Washington & Jefferson, Waynesburg, Westminster, Wheeling, Youngstown State
 
MEET STATS
- 51 total teams counting men and women's teams
- 26 different colleges represented
- 1,018 unique athletes entered
- 1,721 total entries
- Teams from all three NCAA divisions
- 130 total SRU athletes set to compete
 
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 hosts each 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.

PSAC/NCAA QUALIFYING STANDARDS
• 2026 Qualifying Standards
• PSAC Performance List
• NCAA DII Performance List
 
SLIPPERY ROCK MEN'S TEAM UPDATE
The Rock men enter the weekend with seven performances that currently rank in the top 50 among all Division II athletes this spring, including three that rank in the top 25.
 
Five of the top 50 marks come in the throws, including the highest rank mark on the team in shot putter Seaton Wozniak, who currently ranks No. 12 in the country with a mark of 17.11 meters. Connor Brown also owns a top 25 mark in the shot put with his toss of 16.37 meters ranked No. 24. Wozniak also has a top 50 mark in the discus with a throw of 49.06 meters that ranks No. 36.
 
Zach Gose is the next highest ranked SRU athlete with his hammer throw of 58.10 meters currently ranked No. 21 in the nation. Joey Reed rounds out the throwers with top 50 marks with his javelin throw of 61.19 meters currently ranked No. 31.
 
Logan Gossard rounds out the field event top marks with his pole vault clearance of 4.70 meters currently ranked No. 47 and John Juszynski leads the way on the track with his 3,000-meter steeplechase time of 9:30.28 ranked No. 40.

Slippery Rock will enter 65 total men to compete this weekend. Full entries available HERE.
 
SLIPPERY ROCK WOMEN'S TEAM UPDATE
Slippery Rock enters the weekend with six performances ranked in the top 50 in Division II this spring, including two in the top 20.

Alice Bogia leads the way with her triple jump mark of 12.02 meters currently ranked No. 10 in the nation. She is joined in the top 25 in the event by Baylee Blauser, whose leap of 11.68 meters ranks No. 24. Blauser also owns a top 50 mark in the long jump with a leap of 5.61 meters ranked No. 43.
 
Isabella Bartoletti is the second highest ranked SRU female athlete with her javelin throw of 44.31 meters currently ranking 20th nationally. She is one of three throwers with top 50 marks on the year. Savannah Schneck owns the No. 34 mark in the hammer at 50.81 meters and Olivia Heckman is 45th in the shot put with a toss of 13.28 meters.

Slippery Rock will enter 65 total women to compete this weekend. Full entries available HERE.
 
RECAP AND RESULTS
Recaps and results will be posted to www.RockAthletics.com late Saturday night. SRU also hosts two baseball games, two softball games and a lacrosse game Saturday and the athletic communication staff will not be done with live event coverage of those games until approximately 9 p.m. Recaps from all SRU events will be posted as soon as possible after live events wrap up. 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.
 
UP NEXT
Slippery Rock is scheduled to compete in three different places next week. The Rock will send their multi-event athletes to Susquehanna to compete Thursday and Friday. Another group of athletes will head to Westminster to compete Friday and Saturday and an additional group of athletes will travel to Bucknell to compete Friday through Sunday.


 

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