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Utes to Compete at BYU Cougar Invite
4/1/2010 12:00 AM | Track & Field
April 1, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY - The University of Utah women's track and field team will be back in action on Friday with the one-day BYU Cougar Invitational in Provo, Utah. The meet will kick off with the hammer throw at 10:00 a.m. MST and the last event will be the 4x400m relay at 4:50 p.m.
The Utes have competed in two meets thus far in the season (Willie Williams Invite and the Stanford Invitational), but for many of Utah's track and field athletes, this will be their first meet of the outdoor season.
LAST WEEK
A limited group of runners competed at the Stanford Invitational last weekend. Junior Alyssa Abbott competed in heat three of seven in the 1500m run for first place with a time of 4:27.62. She missed her personal best time by two seconds. Freshman Amanda Mergaert competed in the fifth heat of the race, finishing third with a new personal best time of 4:30.19.
In the 800m run, sophomore Lucy Yates competed in the fifth heat for fifth place (13th overall) with a time of 2:08.72. Yates missed tying her personal best mark by .01 seconds.
Straight from Kep
"For many of our athletes this will be the first meet of the outdoor season, so we just want to go out and have good efforts and fight for every position we can," said head coach Kyle Kepler. "We aren't looking for specific marks or times necessarily; mostly we just want to get back into the mind frame of competing.
"The weather will be questionable, so we will be concentrating on maintaining our health through this weekend. We want to stay loose and focused when we return for our home meet next weekend."
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