Women's Track and Field Excited for the Outdoor Music City Challenge

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Following a split weekend in Virginia and Georgia, the Belmont University women's track and field team returns to the music city to compete in the Outdoor Music City Challenge hosted by nearby Vanderbilt University.  

The Bruins will have 30 student-athletes competing across 17 different events while competing in Nashville. 

The meet will get underway Friday at noon with the javelin throw and will continue through the evening, concluding with the men's hammer throw after at 12 p.m. and will continue through the night, concluding with the 5000m. Field events pick up on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. and the meet concludes with the 4x400m relays at 5:10 p.m. 

Emory Moore will be the lone Bruin in the 100m dash. She will be joined by Sarah Richmond in the 200m. Richmond will also take on the 400m. 

Four Bruins will run in the 800m; Savanah Balcerak, Sophia Harvey, Lily Hallum and Brooke Garter. 

Garter will be joined by Brooke Stromsland and Betsy Gordon in the 1500m. 

Maddy Malczewski will run in the 5,000m. 

Grace Litzinger and Katie Flaherty will run as a duo in the 3000m steeplechase. 

Sade Alalade, Michella Diebenow, Emma Garcia Palencia, Georgia Cockerham and Ali Rapps will compete in the 100m hurdles. 

Kayli Clark and Tara Hitchcock will join Diebenow, Cockerham and Rapps in the 400m hurdles. 

In the 4x400m relay, the Bruins will showcase their A squad. 

Switching to field events, Alalade and McKenna Prouty will compete in high jump. 

Nicola van der Merwe, Kaitlyn Thorne and Caleigh Furyk are the three pole vaulters. 

Garcia Palencia and Alalade will have Samantha Woodson by their side in long jump. 

Throwers Logan Gray, Jackie Verseman, Olivia Moyer and Kierstin Roy will all compete in shot put. Gray, Verseman and Moyer will take on discus while Roy will join the duo of Gray and Verseman in hammer throw. 

Madelyn Quinn, Allison Gunderson and Garcia Palencia will all see action in the javelin throw. 
 
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