Blue Raiders Are Heading to the War Eagle Invitational

Friday, April 15

Auburn, AL

Middle Tennessee

War Eagle Invitational

4/14/2022 3:30:00 PM | Men's Cross Country and Track & Field, Women's Cross Country and Track & Field, Track & Field/Cross Country

By: Braydin Sik, MT Athletic Communications

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The Middle Tennessee men's and women's track and field teams are heading to the War Eagle Invitational hosted by Auburn, Friday, April 15^th, and Saturday, April 16^th.

Follow Along Live
Live results from this weekend's competition will be provided by Delta Timing here. Friday and Saturday's action will be not be streamed.

Results will be posted throughout each day on the Blue Raider's Track and Field Twitter feed.

The Meet Schedule
The Blue Raiders will kick off their weekend Friday with the women's long jump at 4:00 p.m. CT. On Saturday, men's high jump and women's triple jump will start things off at 11:30 a.m. CT.

Click here (PDF) to view the full meet schedule.
Click here (PDF) to view this weekend's heat sheets.

The Meet Field
Programs represented at the War Eagle Invitational include Auburn, Alabama-Huntsville, Alabama State, Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Chattanooga, Columbia, Christian Brothers, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Holy Cross, Indiana State, Indiana Tech, Memphis, Middle Tennessee, New Orleans, North Georgia*, Northwestern State, Rowan, Samford, Southern Miss, Syracuse, Tennessee, Troy, Tulane* , UAB*, Yale.

*Only bringing women's team.

Last Time Out for the Blue Raiders – Day 1 Recap | Day 2 Recap
Alaba Akintola was showing off during the Tennessee Relays' Power Hour, taking first place in both the 100m dash (10.27 seconds, second best time in C-USA this season) and the 200m dash (21.04 seconds, just 0.05 seconds off from the C-USA best).

In just her second official meet with the Blue Raiders, Abigail Kwarteng took gold in both the women's high jump and long jump. During the high jump, Kwarteng hit a mark of 1.83m which would be second in conference to her previous mark of 1.84m. In the long jump, she reached a personal-best mark of 12.79m. Due to these results, Kwarteng was awarded her second Conference USA Field Athlete of the Week honor.

On hurdles as well, good things continued to happen for MT, with a male and female sweep of the 400m hurdles from Stephen Eloji (53.92 seconds) and Glory Nyenke (1:03.67).

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