April 7, 2003

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HAWKS HOST INVITATIONAL: The Miami women's track and field team brings their winning ways home this weekend as it hosts the Miami Invitational at the George Rider Track as the field events begin at 9 a.m. and the track events start at 12:30 p.m. After winning the Clemson Invitational last weekend, Miami will challenge Ball State, Butler, Cedarville, Marshall, Purdue, Valparaiso and IUPUI in the women's 18th running of the race.

REDHAWK REGIONAL QUALIFIERS: The RedHawks earned five NCAA Regional Qualifying marks this weekend at Clemson University, which enable the athletes to compete on May 30th at Ohio State University.

- Junior Erin Connolly came from behind to win the 100-meter hurdles with a qualifying time of 0:14.09.

- In her first 3000-meter steeplechase of the year, junior Andrea Kremer easily won the race and was less than a second under the qualifying time with a 10:59.89 time.

- Junior Lauren Collins earned two first-place finishes and one second-place finish, while achieving three NCAA Regional Championship qualifying marks. Collins earned the top mark in the shot put when her throw measured out at 46'2" for the 10th longest throw in school history. Collins also earned the maximum amount of points in the hammer throw when she was the top college thrower to finish with a 170'7" mark and fifth all-time at Miami. In the discus throw, Collins was beat out by an Iowa State thrower, but she was able to earn second with a 153'09" mark.

KING KREMER: Junior Andrea Kremer posted a new personal record in the 5,000-meter run at the Adidas Raleigh Relays at North Carolina State as she placed fifth out of over 150 runners with a time of 16:35.00. Only one other collegiate runner beat Kremer as she easily past the NCAA Regional Qualifying time on her way to setting her own personal record and giving Miami the second fastest time in school history behind former all-American, Molly Cullen.

NICE START: The RedHawks got the season off to a great start last weekend with many solid performances to help Miami place third out of 23 schools at the prestigious Alabama Relays.

-Junior Bernitta Johnson became only the second Miami athlete to surpass 41 feet in the triple jump to finish second for her personal-best mark.

-Junior Andrea Kremer placed first in the 5000-meter run with an NCAA Regional qualifying time of 16:49.98, almost 20 seconds faster than the second finisher.

-Senior Erika Harper defeated 38 of 41 athletes in the 400 meters with a time of 55.86, coming close to the NCAA Regional qualifying time of 55.00.

-The 4x100-meter hurdle relay team of sophomore Katie Dyer, senior Kate Christoff, junior Jennifer Caldwell, and junior Erin Connolly placed second behind Alabama with a Miami school record time of 58.94, which broke the previous record set in 1996.

-The 4x1500-meter relay team broke the existing Miami record of 19:27.95 by over 17 seconds and finished first with a time of 19:10.83. Senior Kylee Studer, sophomore Sarah Bertolini, freshman Kelly Ardelean, and senior Andrea Kremer combined to finish over a minute ahead of the second place team.

-The 4x800-meter relay team of junior Jenny Korrison, senior Sara Edwards, freshman Sophia Afridi, and sophomore Sarah Correll combined to barely break the seven-year Miami school record with a time of 9:16.28 for fifth overall.

-Freshman Johanna Borawski finished second collegiality after throwing the javelin 129'5", to move her into seventh all-time at Miami.

Saturday, April 12
Field Events
9 a.m. Men's Hammer
10:30 a.m. Women's Hammer
12 p.m. Men's Javelin
1:30 p.m. Women's Javelin
3 p.m. Men's Discus
4:30 p.m. Women's Discus

11 a.m. Men's Shot Put
12:30 p.m. Women's Shot Put

11 a.m. Men's Long Jump
12:30 p.m. Women's Long Jump
2 p.m. Men's Triple Jump
3:30 p.m. Women's Triple Jump

Noon Women's High Jump
Noon Men's Pole Vault
2:30 p.m. Women's Pole Vault
2:30 p.m. Men's High Jump

Track Events
12:30 p.m. 3000 Steeplechase (Men)
12:45 p.m. 5000 (Women)
1:10 p.m. 4 x 100 Relay (Men)
1:20 p.m. 4 x 100 Relay (Women)
1:30 p.m. 1500 (Men)
1:40 p.m. 1500 (Women)
1:55 p.m. 110 Hurdles (Men)
2:05 p.m. 100 Hurdles (Women)
2:20 p.m. 400 (Men)
2:30 p.m. 400 (Women)
2:45 p.m. 100 (Men) (2 SECTIONS)
2:55 p.m. 100 (Women)
3:05 p.m. 800 (Men)
3:20 p.m. 800 (Women)
3:40 p.m. 400 Hurdles (Men)
3:50 p.m. 400 Hurdles (Women)
4 p.m. 200 (Men)
4:10 p.m. 200 (Women)
4:25 p.m. 5000 (Men)
4:45 p.m. 3000 Steeplechase (Women)
5 p.m. 4 x 400 Relay (Men)
5:10 p.m. 4 x 400 Relay (Women)

8 Places Score in all Events: 10,8,6,5,4,3,2,1