Toledo Completes Meyo Invitational

South Bend, IN - The Toledo track & field program completed the 2016 Meyo Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 6. The Meyo Invite was hosted by Notre Dame at the Loftus Sports Center.

Senior Liz Weiler ran the second fastest mile time of season for Toledo with a 4:59.88 en route to a 31st place finish. Senior Julia Pusateri also posted the third fastest time for UT with a 4:54.18 time.

Junior Ty'Shai Freeman produced the best triple jump of the season at 11.62m, which bested her previous mark of 11.35m at the SPIRE Midwest Open.

Kyesha Neal posted the third longest shot put throw of the season with a throw of 14.37m. Neal also have top mark at 14.72, which she picked up at the Tom Wright Classic.

Yesterday, freshman Jennifer Lichter ran a personal best in the 5000m with a time of 17:03.30 on her way to a ninth place finish. Her 17:03 timeranks fourth in the conference this season, and beat the Mid-American Conference qualifying time by 13 seconds.

UT's distance medley relay team of senior Priscilla Timmons, sophomore Kristiana Collins, junior Maja Pacaric and senior Brooke Tullis finished fifth in the DMR with a time of 11:45.04. The quartet posted the second best DMR race in the conference this season, and bested the previous UT DMR time by .81 seconds.

Toledo will continue its season at the SPIRE DI Invitational on Friday, Feb. 12 and Saturday, Feb. 13.

Full Results can be found here.

Toledo Results

60m (Prelims)

56. Christina Johnson, 7.95

66. Lexis Williams, 8.16

200m

64. Lexis Willaims, 26.64

3000m

45. Joan Jepkirui, 10:01.98

46. Delainey Phelps, 10:02.18

Triple Jump