Track & Field 'Friday Night Spikes' Series Begins This Week

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology opens its "Friday Night Spikes Series" of January indoor meets with the season opener on Jan. 17 at the Sports and Recreation Center.

Rose-Hulman News & Notes:

* Rose-Hulman swept the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Team Championships in 2019.
* The Rose-Hulman men's track and field team has been picked as the HCAC preseason favorites, while the women have been picked to finish second (DETAILS).
* Rose-Hulman enters the 2020 indoor track and field season with 21 consecutive Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference team championships. The men have won 12 consecutive HCAC outdoor championships and 9 straight HCAC indoor titles.
* The women's program has won four HCAC Championships: 2019 (Indoor), 2018 (Outdoor), 2018 (Indoor) and 2011 (Indoor).
* Rose-Hulman enters the season with over 90 track and field student-athletes on its combined roster, the largest total in the HCAC.
* The Fightin' Engineers will host the 2020 HCAC Indoor Championships on February 22 and will also host the 2020 HCAC Outdoor Championships on April 24-25.
* Assistant coach - and 5X NCAA Division III national champion and 8X All-American during her career - Liz Evans has qualified for the USATF Indoor National Championships after clearing 5' 11 1/4" last weekend in Chicago.

The Competition:
* Team competing in the Friday Night Invitational include: DePauw, Hanover, Manchester, Rose-Hulman, Washington (Mo.)

Upcoming Action:
* After this weekend's action, Rose-Hulman will return home for the Friday Night Invitational on Jan. 24. That meet will also begin at 6 p.m.

TIME SCHEDULE
4:15 pm Field house opens
5:15 pm Men's Triple Jump (women to follow) / 4 jumps
6:00 pm Women's Shot Put (men to follow)
Men's Weight Throw (women to follow)
Women's high jump (men to follow)
Men's pole vault (women to follow)
TBD Men's long jump (follows TJ) / 4 jumps
Women's long jump / 4 jumps
6:15 pm 60 meter dash prelims (men followed by women)
*Heat winners and times advance to final
60 meter hurdles prelims (men followed by women)
*Heat winners and times advance to final
6:45 pm 4 x 200 meter relay (men followed by women)
7:00 pm Mile run
7:20 pm 60 meter hurdles finals
7:30 pm 400 meter dash (sections on time)
7:50 pm 60 meter dash finals
8:00 pm 800 meter run (sections on time)
8:15 pm 200 meter dash (sections on time)
8:35 pm 3000 meter run
9:20 pm 4 x 400 meter relay
9:35 pm Estimated conclusion of meet
*Faster sections will run first. Men followed by women.

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