Blue Raiders Heading to Philadelphia for Penn Relays

Thursday, April 28

Philadelphia, PA

Middle Tennessee

Penn Relays

4/27/2022 11:23:00 AM | 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 much-awaited Penn Relays hosted from Thursday, April 28^th, to Saturday, April 30^th, in Philadelphia.

Follow Along Live
Live results from this weekend's competition will be provided on the Penn Relay website here.

FloTrack will be providing a live stream throughout the weekend here. The monthly subscription price is $30.00, and the annual subscription is $150.00 for FloSports.

Results and highlights 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 the Penn Relays on Thursday with the men's 400-meter hurdles at 4:55 p.m. CT. Women's long jump will kick things off Friday for MT at 11:00 a.m. CT. Saturday will see the Blue Raiders start competing at 11:00 a.m. CT in the men's long jump and women's high jump.

Click here to view the full meet schedule.

Click here to view Middle Tennessee's meet schedule.

The Meet Field
A few of the programs that will be performing at the Penn Relays are Arkansas, Auburn, BYU, Clemson, Houston, NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Old Dominion, Ole Miss, Penn State, Rice, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

Click here to view the full collegiate field sorted by conference.

Last Time Out for the Blue Raiders – Full Recap
The Georgia Tech Invitational was highlighted by Alaba Akintola breaking the 28-year-old 200-meter record set by Roland McGhee in 1994. Akintola took second behind the nation's leader with a time of 20.34 seconds. His new best puts him first in the conference for the 200 meter and marks his third program record this season.

The Blue Raiders had three other first-place finishes in Georgia in Omamuyovwi Erhire, Glory Nyenke, and the men's 4x100 team. Erhire recorded a jump of 2.10 meters which would rank third in conference behind his jump of 2.18 meters. Nyenke set a personal-best time of 59.02 seconds in the women's 400 meter, ranking her fourth in the conference.

The other program record set last weekend came from Eusila Chepkemei as she ran a time of 4:13.16 in the women's 1500 meter. Her first place at the Indiana Invitational places her at fourth in the nation and replaces the previous record of 4:17.75 set by Agnes Abu in 2017. Chepkemei now holds five program records, all set within the last two months.

Follow the Middle Tennessee Track & Field Team
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