Women's Track Starts New Year at Kentucky

1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field

Jan. 10, 2008

Lexington, Ky. - The Marshall University Women's Track team will return to action at the Kentucky Invitational this weekend at the Nutter Field House hosted by the University of Kentucky.

This weekend is only the second meet for the Thundering Herd during the indoor season. The team last competed at the Oilers Open at the University of Findlay back on December 1.

Senior Teniqua Sutton (Westbury, N.J.) won the triple jump event at Findlay with a jump of 36 feet, 11 inches.

Junior Breanna Jones (Columbia, S.C.) notched two top 10 finishes in the 60-meter hurdles and the 300-meter event. In the 60-meter hurdle she finished with a time of 8.93 and a time of 42.45 in the 300-meter.

Sutton set an indoor track school record at last year's event at Kentucky (39-feet, five inches).

The meet will begin at 6 p.m. Friday and will continue Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Live statistics of the two-day event can be found at www.ukathletics.com.