Alex Rose, Kevin Bacon lead men's track & field into weekend invite
(01/14/11 3:30am)
After a long layoff, the Central Michigan men’s track and field team returns to competition today when they host the season-opening Chippewa Invite.
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After a long layoff, the Central Michigan men’s track and field team returns to competition today when they host the season-opening Chippewa Invite.
The Central Michigan track and field team will open up the indoor season today in the annual Chippewa Open held in the Jack Skoog Indoor Track.
For weeks and months leading up to the 2010-2011 track and field season, the athletes of Central Michigan’s men’s track and field team have been working relentlessly to make sure they are in peak athletic shape.
Central Michigan director of cross country/track field Willie Randolph announced one of the largest incoming classes CMU has ever had a few weeks ago. The 2010 class consists of 24 athletes, 16 men and eight women, while eight will run for the men’s and women’s cross country teams.
Updated: 6:30 p.m. Saturday Central Michigan track and field athlete Alex Rose continues to make a name for himself on the national stage, while former high jumper Erika Schroll rebounds from NCAA prelims.
While one ends his collegiate career, another is just getting started. The Central Michigan track and field team will send two individuals to Eugene, Ore., today to compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Senior Greg Pilling and freshman Alex Rose will take part in the discus toss after qualifying at preliminaries.
School is out and the weather could not be better, but several athletes on the Central Michigan track and field team still have work to do. CMU will send nine athletes to the NCAA East Preliminary Round, set for Thursday through Sunday in Greensboro, N.C.
Despite rainy conditions, the Central Michigan track and field team had five first place finishes over the weekend at the Len Paddock Invitational in Ann Arbor.
The CMU men’s and women’s track and field teams had seven event wins this weekend in the Simmons/Harvey Invitational at the University of Michigan. Several athletes won field events in the non-scoring meet Friday, followed by more of the same with the running events Saturday.
First-year track and field director Willie Randolph spent Friday afternoon pacing the track in the Indoor Athletic Complex, coaching any athlete he could find during the Chippewa Open. The first home meet of the indoor season, the Open was a non-scoring event that included nearly all CMU athletes. Runners from Alma college and unattached athletes also competed in the meet.
CMU graduated 88 percent of scholarship athletes who attended the school between 1993-94 and 2002-03, higher than the 79 percent national average, according to the graduation success rate report released Nov. 18 by the NCAA.
The men’s and women’s track and field teams added a new member to the coaching staff. Glenn Smith joins the Chippewas for the 2009-10 season and will primarily work with jumps and multi-events.
Riak Mabil will never forget the night of Dec. 19, 2000. At the age of 13, Mabil, along with three of his siblings, arrived to the United States as refugees from northern Kenya.
Junior Raeanne Lohner is a distance runner for the cross country team. Lohner finished 39th out of 101 runners in last season’s Mid-American Conference Championships. John Evans: Other than competing and practicing on the track, what do you like to do on your off-days? Raeanne Lohner: I am pretty much a normal college student. I like hanging out with people. My other passion is picking up new books from the library about education because I’m going into secondary education.
New throws coach John Ridgeway gets to work with All-American Greg Pilling upon coming to CMU. Ridgeway is a former shot put thrower at the University of North Carolina. He was a two-year letter winner at UNC and earned all-Atlantic Coast Conference honors in 2000-01. Director and coach Willie Randolph had a previous relationship with Ridgeway before hiring him, something he said is important for any program.
CMU sports teams will get an upgrade to their experience in the near future at the Indoor Athletic Complex. With an Oct. 1 target date, the old turf will be replaced with the same turf used on the Kelly/Shorts Stadium field — by FieldTurf. “It’s the newest generation of artificial surface that’s a very forgiving, more grass-like surface,” said Athletics Director Dave Heeke.
Gaining respect from her athletes is something that will not be hard for Dionne Henley, given her resume. Competing in the 100-meter hurdles for Jamaica twice in the Olympics is not something every athlete can say their track coach accomplished.
After initially agreeing to join the track and field and cross country staff, Jeff Petersmeyer will not be coming to CMU after all. Petersmeyer spent the past three years as a track coach at Texas Christian University, where he specialized in the horizontal jumps and multi-events. He was expected to be a part of the Chippewas coaching staff before unexpectedly taking a job elsewhere to work with a mentor of his.
There was a time four years ago when Willie Randolph refused to take calls from his own mother. No, there was not a rift in his family. In fact, his mother is a cornerstone in his life. “You only get one mom,” Randolph said.
It started as a simple interview about being the new leader of a track and field/cross country program. Clearly, it became much more.