YSUsports.com - Track & Field: Penguins Set to Begin Outdoor Season Friday at Duke Invitational

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April 5, 2007

Penguins Set to Begin Outdoor Season Friday at Duke Invitational

    Youngstown -- Youngstown State will open its 2007 outdoor track and field season on Friday at the Duke Invitational with hopes of improving on runner-up finishes at the Horizon League Indoor Championships in February.
    The Penguins will have seven meets prior to the Horizon League Outdoor Championships on May 10-11 in Indianapolis, Ind. Three of those meets will be held in Northeast Ohio and another will be held in Cincinnati.
    After the Duke Invite and a trip to the Sea Ray Relays at the University of Tennessee, the Penguins will compete at the Northeast Ohio Quad meet at Akron on April 14. YSU will also compete at the All-Ohio Championships in Cincinnati on April 20-21, the Sparky Adams Invite in Berea on April 28 and the Campbell/Wright Open in Akron on May 4-5.
    YSU's women's squad enters the season having won three consecutive Horizon League titles. At last season's championship meet the Penguins outscored UW-Milwaukee 163 to 126 in the final day to win by 11 points.
    Bethany Anderson, who was recently named the Horizon League Indoor Athlete of the Year, is one of two specialty award winners returning from last season's championship squad. Anderson won the shot put and hammer to earn Outstanding Field Performer honors at the 2006 conference meet.
    Katie Betts also returns after earning Running Newcomer of the Year accolades a year ago. YSU should also get a lift from freshman Alisha Anthony, who was named the Field Newcomer of the Year at the indoor league meet.
    However, the women's squad will have some voids to fill from last year's winning team with Outstanding Running Performer Danielle Bolt, individual event winners Katy Williams and Satara Freeman, and relay champion Jeanna Cunningham missing from the roster.
    The men's team finished second to UW-Milwaukee at last year's meet and will be without Outstanding Field Performer Jarrod Davis this season. However, Aaron Merrill, last season's Field Newcomer of the Year, will return to defend his title in the shot put. Merrill and high jump champion Marty Vieth are the lone returning victors.
    Joe Lahmon was named the Outstanding Field Performer at this year's indoor meet and had two top-three finishes at the outdoor meet in 2006. Sprinter Scott Streiner also returns after two runner-up finishes last season.