GVSU Schedule of Events:
Friday
Saturday

DETROIT -- The Detroit women's track and field team will be split up this weekend with two meets on the schedule. A select number of athletes will compete in the GVSU Big Meet held in Allendale, Mich., while others will spend Saturday competing at the Windsor Team Challenge.

The GVSU Big Meet is a two-day event held in the Laker Turf Building. The meet begins at noon on Friday (Feb. 11) and continues the next day at 9:30 a.m. The Titans will look to improve times at the meet as the Horizon League Championships are now in sight (Feb. 26-27).

“We are taking a group of distance runners and a couple of our heat athletes to go for some more big efforts at the big track at Grand Valley,” Head Coach Guy Murray said. “The fields will be conducive for fast running and we seem to have the flu bug behind so we are healthy and ready to go.”

Sequoyia Calhoun (Belleville, MI, Belleville) will compete in the 400-meter dash at the GVSU Big Meet. Calhoun currently holds the best 400m time in the Horizon League at 57.63. She is also fifth in the Horizon League with a time of 25.96 in the 200m.

Kirstin Mooney (Stirling ON, St. Theresa Catholic) will represent the Titans in the 800-meter run. She holds the fifth-best league time at 2:17.06. “Kirstin has run fast the past couple of weeks,” Murray said. “She has opened up some big leads so it will be interesting to see how she responds with some competitors close to her with 300m to go. I think she is ready to run pretty fast.”

The 5000-meter run will feature a group of Titans as Torrie Eger (Buchanan, MI , Buchanan), Kristie Ferrans (Carleton, MI, Monroe), Katrina Oberski (Clyde, MI, Port Huron ), and Alexandria Vintevoghel (Casco, MI, Marine City) will all compete. Vintevoghel will likely lead this young group as her time of 18:56.82 is the best of any Titan this year, and it stands as the eighth-best time in the Horizon League.

Those athletes not mentioned above will be competing at the Windsor Team Challenge on Saturday. The challenge includes, host school Windsor, Guelph, McMaster, Western Ontario, and York.

“The Windsor Team Challenge is a great meet,” Murray said. “It features some of the best teams in Canada, and it also serves as a unique experience being that it is an international competition. Windsor and Western are perennial challengers for the Canadian title, and the meet has a good atmosphere. The events are good for us to aid development in the NCAA events.”

The Titans are currently ranked 27th in the Great Lakes Region. The distance medley relay team of Rachel Hofsess (Milford, MI, Milford),Tressanique Hampton (Flint, MI, Southwestern Academy ), Mooney and Vintevoghel ranks 20th with a time of 12:43.49

2011 Top Times / Marks
60m: 7.97 – Nicole Meisner
200m: 26.46 – Sequoyia Calhoun
400m: 57.63 – Sequoyia Calhoun
800m: 2:17.06 – Kirstin Mooney
Mile: 5:18.92 – Rachel Hofsess
3000m: 10:46.25 – Alexandria Vintevoghel
5000m: 18:56.82 – Alexandria Vintevoghel
60mH: 9.33 – Brandee Hart
4x400m: 3:59.34 – Hampton, Smid, Mooney, Calhoun
DMR: 12:43.49 – Hofsess, Hampton, Mooney, Vintevoghel
High Jump: 1.58m – Stephanie Cuniberti
Pole Vault: 2.90m – Kayla Zauner
Long Jump: 5.33m – Whitney Rogers
Triple Jump: 36-0 – Susan Kalkstein
Shot Put: 11.64m – Allyson Koglin
Weight Throw: 13.12m – Allyson Koglin