With the ACC Indoor Championships looming this week, the Virginia men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams sent a select number of participants to compete at the UCS Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Saturday.
At the Fastrack National Qualifier Invite this past weekend in Staten Island, N.Y., familiar names brought success to the Virginia men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams.
On Saturday afternoon, the Cavalier track and field program hosted its first outdoor meet of 2015 — the Virginia Cup.
Virginia track and field continued its season with two meets this weekend, the Texas Relays and Raleigh Relays. The Cavaliers set a slew of personal bests and put up solid results while facing some of nation’s best teams.
Virginia track and field will split its team to compete in two separate meets this weekend. Sprinters and members of relay teams will travel to the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, while distance runners will stay much closer to home at the Raleigh Relays in North Carolina.
Virginia track and field began the outdoor portion of their season Saturday with the Virginia Cup at Lannigan Field.
The Skinny: Following a tight 4-3 loss to No. 3 UCLA, the Cavaliers travel to North Carolina for a pair of matches against ACC rivals the Tar Heels and the Blue Devils.
Junior sprinter Jordan Lavender was the lone member of the Virginia Indoor Track & Field team to compete in the NCAA Championships last weekend in Albuquerque, N.M.
Virginia track and field competed at the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championship this weekend in Clemson, S.C. Both the men and the women put forth a middling effort—the men placed sixth and the women were tied for 10th.
