Notre Dame Meyo Invite Awaits Wolverine Women

Friday, February 7

South Bend, Ind.

4:00 PM

Michigan

Meyo Invitational

Jeryne Fish (Michigan Photography)

2/5/2020 12:27:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

By: Kyle Terwillegar

UPDATE: Competition schedule has been updated to reflect the final heat sheets.

THIS WEEK
Fri-Sat., Feb. 7-8 -- at Notre Dame Meyo Invitational (South Bend, Ind.)
Meet Schedule
Friday, Feb. 7 -- Meyo Invitational, 4:50 p.m.
Live Results
Saturday, Feb. 8 -- Meyo Invitational, 9:55 a.m.
TV: ACC Network Extra | Live Results | Live Video

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In what will be the third-to-last weekend of competition prior to the Big Ten Indoor Championships for the University of Michigan women's track and field team, numerous Wolverines will compete on Notre Dame's oversized track on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 7-8) at the Meyo Invitational in South Bend, Indiana.

Headlined by All-Americans Chloe Foster, Jade Harrison, Alice Hill and Aurora Rynda -- the latter of whom will be making her 2020 in-uniform debut -- select women from each of the event groups will compete in one of the Midwest's most prominent meets.

For many of the 22 women in the travel party, this will be their first competition of 2020 on the type of oversized, flat track that will host Big Tens on Feb. 28-29 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Notre Dame's track measures a fifth of a mile -- just shy of 322 meters -- with flat turns, compared to the banked 200-meter track housed within the world-class U-M Indoor Track Building.

Action will begin Friday at 4 p.m. in the field with a track program with several prelims and several finals set to kick off at 4:30 p.m. Saturday's track events will begin with a lower-seeded program at 9:45 a.m. and field events for Michigan at 10:30 a.m. Top seeded finals on the track will take place during a 2-4 p.m. broadcast window on the digital ACC Network Extra streaming platform.

The Wolverines will look to bolster their standing as the nation's No. 3 team at 800 meters and No. 5 team in the mile, according to the latest USTFCCCA rankings. Rynda will run in the maize and blue for the first time this season, entered at both 600 and 800 meters. She is the reigning Big Ten Indoor champion in the former, and ran a career-best 2:05.72 unattached just last week in the latter.

She will be joined by Hill and multiple-time Big Ten scorer Micaela DeGenero at 800 meters, with Hill also coming off a career-best 2:08.57 effort at the Power Five Invitational.

Hill may also elect to run the mile, an event in which she scored at the Big Ten Indoor Championships a year ago. True first-year collegian Amber Gall will be looking for a quick time after a collegiate personal-record 2:09.62 last weekend.

Led by a career-best 54.23 effort from Foster last weekend, the Wolverines' squad at 400 meters also is highly ranked nationally at No. 14. Foster will be joined by a resurgent Julia Hall and an emergent Emma Lane, who now both sit inside the top-10 in school history. Joining them for the first time in 2020 at the quarter-mile distance is school record-holder Harrison. She was the victor at 200 meters last week.

The four also are slated to combine for a 4x400 relay at the end of the meet, with the school-record 3:37.88 from 2018 potentially in danger of falling.

Headlining the jumps is long jumper Jeryne Fish, who will be looking to translate her newfound career-best speed in the 60 meters -- she slashed nearly a half-second off of her 60-meter personal record last weekend -- into more distance in the horizontal jump.

Erin Connor will represent the Michigan throws corps both in the weight throw and the shot put.

Wolverine Bites

• The Wolverines, led by head coaches James Henry and Jerry Clayton, are ranked No. 78 nationally in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Track and Field Rating Index (TFRI) released Monday (Feb. 3).

• The Wolverines finished ninth at the 2019 Big Ten Indoor Championships, scoring 51.5 points. All but 10 of those points return in 2020, led by reigning indoor 600-meter champion Aurora Rynda. Joining her are five other women who finished top-eight at last year's Big Ten meet, with more on the roster who have the potential to join them. In Rynda, Chloe Foster and Alice Hill, Michigan also returns three of four legs from the fastest distance medley relay team in Big Ten history, and all four DMR members return from the sixth-place NCAA Championships team including Meg Darmofal.

• Returning All-Americans: the quartet of Hill, Foster, Rynda and Darmofal (distance medley relay); Camille Davre and Ericka VanderLende (cross country)

• Returning Big Ten Indoor Championships scorers: Darmofal (mile); Micaela DeGenero (800 meters); Foster (600 meters); Hill (mile); Mercier (pole vault); Rynda (600 meters champion)

• Current school record-holders: Hill, Foster and Rynda (distance medley relay); Foster, Jade Harrison and Julia Hall (indoor 4x400 relay), Courtney Jacobsen (weight throw); Jade Harrison (indoor 400 meters)

Michigan Student-Athletes Ranked Top-50 Nationally

Name	Event	Rank
Chloe Foster	400m	34
Julia Hall	600m	13
Annie Taylor	600m	26
Alice Hill	600m	50
Meg Darmofal	800m	30
Annie Taylor	800m	34
Alice Hill	800m	42
Meg Darmofal	Mile	15
Ericka VanderLende	3000m	17
Katt Miner	High Jump	9
Jada Wimberly	High Jump	26
Amanda Schaare	Shot Put	39
Courtney Jacobsen	Weight Throw	32
Briana Nelson	Weight Throw	34
Chloe Foster	Weight Throw	6

Michigan Student-Athletes Ranked Top-10 in the Big Ten

Name	Event	Rank
Chloe Foster	600	1
Chloe Foster	400	2
Meg Darmofal	800	2
Meg Darmofal	Mile	2
Ericka VanderLende	3000	2
Julia Hall	600	3
Michigan	4x400 relay	3
Katt Miner	HJ	3
Annie Taylor	800	5
Jade Harrison	200	6
Jada Wimberly	HJ	6
Alice Hill	800	7
Courtney Jacobsen	WT	7
Kathryn House	3000	8
Briana Nelson	WT	8
Emma Lane	400	9
Amber Gall	800	10
Alice Hill	Mile	10

When to Watch the Wolverines

Friday Competitors
Name	Event	Round	Time (ET)
Jeryne Fish	Long Jump	Final	4:00 PM
Ameia Wilson	Long Jump	Final	4:00 PM
Erin Connor	Weight Throw	Final	4:00 PM
Michaiah Thomas	60 meter hurdles	Prelims	4:30 PM
Madison Eaton	60 meter hurdles	Prelims	4:30 PM
Paige Chapman	60 meter hurdles	Prelims	4:30 PM
Paige Chapman	60 meter dash	Prelims	5:05 PM
Madison Eaton	60 meter dash	Prelims	5:05 PM
Charlotte Cochrane	5000 meter run	Final	5:50 PM
Raquel Powers	5000 meter run	Final	5:50 PM
Maddy Trevisan	5000 meter run	Final	5:50 PM
Jeryne Fish	200 meter dash	Final	7:40 PM
Ameia Wilson	200 meter dash	Final	7:40 PM
Aurora Rynda	600 meter run	Final	8:25 PM
Micaela DeGenero	600 meter run	Final	8:25 PM

Saturday Competitors
Name	Event	Round	Time (ET)
* Paige Chapman	60 meter hurdles	Semifinals	9:45 AM
* Madison Eaton	60 meter hurdles	Semifinals	9:45 AM
* Michaiah Thomas	60 meter hurdles	Semifinals	9:45 AM
* Paige Chapman	60 meter dash	Semifinals	10:05 AM
* Madison Eaton	60 meter dash	Semifinals	10:05 AM
Julia Vanitvelt	3000 meter run	Final	10:15 AM
Erin Connor	Shot Put	Final	10:30 AM
Eva Jansohn	Mile	Final	11:15 AM
Gabby Swider	Mile	Final	11:15 AM
Amber Gall	Mile	Final	11:15 AM
Alice Hill	Mile	Final	11:15 AM
Cate Visscher	Pole Vault	Final	12:00 PM
Julia Hall	400 meter dash	Final	12:15 PM
Emma Lane	400 meter dash	Final	12:15 PM
Julia Sullivan	800 meter run	Final	1:00 PM
* Paige Chapman	60 meter hurdles	Final	2:05 PM
* Madison Eaton	60 meter hurdles	Final	2:05 PM
* Michaiah Thomas	60 meter hurdles	Final	2:05 PM
* Paige Chapman	60 meter dash	Final	2:15 PM
* Madison Eaton	60 meter dash	Final	2:15 PM
Chloe Foster	400 meter dash	Final	2:30 PM
Jade Harrison	400 meter dash	Final	2:32 PM
Alice Hill	800 meter run	Final	3:05 PM
Aurora Rynda	800 meter run	Final	3:05 PM
Micaela DeGenero	800 meter run	Final	3:10 PM
Michigan A	4x400 relay	Final	3:55 PM