Track & Field Hosts Friday Night Invitational This Weekend at SRC

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology hosts its second "Friday Night Spikes Series" meet in January with the Friday Night Invitational on Jan. 24 at the Sports and Recreation Center.

Rose-Hulman News & Notes:

* Rose-Hulman opened the 2020 season by finishing 2nd in men's and women's team scores at the Friday Night Spikes Opener last weekend.
* Two school records fell for Rose-Hulman. Nathan Schrader (weight throw) and Mary-Helen Shomba (60 hurdles) set school records and were earned HCAC Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors on Tuesday.
* 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.

The Competition:
* Team competing in the Friday Night Invitational include: Campbellsville (Ky.), Franklin, Kentucky Wesleyan, Millikin, Rose-Hulman, St. Norbert

Upcoming Action:
* After this weekend's action, Rose-Hulman will return home for the Engineer Invitational (which doubles as the program's Senior Night) on Jan. 31. 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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