Track & Field Continues Strong Performance at GVSU Big Meet

Friday, February 11

Allendale, Mich.

Murray State

GVSU BigMeet (Grand Valley State)

Junior Christina Johnson took fifth in the open 400 at the GVSU Big Meet.

Photo by: Fred Mullane

Track & Field Continues Strong Performance at GVSU Big Meet

2/12/2011 9:46:06 PM | Women's Track and Field

The Murray State women's indoor track & field team continued to turn in strong performances in the second day of the GVSU Big Meet hosted by Grand Valley State in Allendale, Mich.

Results

Junior Christina Johnson took a fifth-place finish in the open section of the 400, with a season-best time of 58.35. Fellow junior Kayla Crusham turned in a time of 2:27.39 in the 800 after competing in the 5000 Friday.

Sophomore Bridget Stichnot set a personal best in the 1 Mile in a time of 5:51.37, taking 41^st. Stichnot also ran a season best in the 3000 (11:14.04). Junior Galileo Simmons added a personal record of 2:24.04 in the 800.

Simmons then teams with Johnson, sophomore Alexis Love and freshman Katie Forshey to take seventh in the 4x400 relay, with a time of 4:01.78, in the first running of the event by MSU this season.

In the field events, senior Josha Rogers placed 10^th in the open high jump, with a mark of 1.57m (5'1.75”). Junior Lexie Barr added an 11^th-place finish in the open pole vault (3.10m/10'2”).

The Racers will have one more chance to improve on their season best marks before participating in the 2011 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championship in Charleston, Ill., Feb. 24-26. MSU will travel to Cape Girardeau, Mo., to compete in the Redbird Invitational Friday, Feb. 18.