VIRGINIA
TECH CHALLENGE
When: Friday-Saturday,
February 15-16
Where: Rector
Fieldhouse, Blacksburg, Va.
Live Results: Click Here
Participating Schools: Bowie
State, Concord, Cumberlands, Duke, Elon, George Mason, James Madison,
Lee University, Liberty, Radford, Roanoke, St. Augustine's, UNC
Wilmington, Wake Forest, Washington & Lee, William & Mary, Winston-Salem State
Mason returns to the track this
weekend, traveling to Blacksburg for the Virginia Tech Challenge. The two-day
meet begins on Friday with the men's and women's long jump in field events and
the women's 600m run on the track slated to begin at 5:00 p.m.
The George
Mason men's track and field team broke into the national rankings this season,
standing 22nd in the latest USTFCCCA National Indoor Rankings. It is
the first Top-25 indoor national ranking for the Patriots since the USTFCCA
started compiling weekly rankings in 2008. The squad also currently stands 15th
in the Southeast Region. The women remained in the regional rankings this week,
dropping one spot to 11th in the Southeast Region
Highlighting
the men's performances this season is senior David
Verburg, who ran the current world's fastest time in the 400m (45.83) last
weekend at the SPIRE Institute Invitational. He also owns the NCAA's top time
in the 500m (1:01.29), and partnered with junior Adrian
Vaughn, senior George
Empty and freshman Angel Coburn for the fourth-fastest 4x400m time in the
country (3:07.29).
The women's
4x400m relay of Daianna Barron, Dominique Graham, Cierra McGee and Jasmine
Robinson also rank in the Top 25 nationally, standing 16th in the
NCAA with a time of 3:38.26.
Mason
T&F has a bevy of IC4A/ECAC qualifiers in addition to five individuals on
the NCAA Division I Indoor Championship Qualifying List: Verburg in the 400m
(45.83), McGee (53.73) and Barron (54.51) in the 400m, and Jasmine Moser
(4.00m) and Mandissa Marshall (4.00m) in the pole vault. Both the men's and
women's 4x400m relays are also on the qualifying list.
