University of Tennessee Athletics
LADY VOL THROWERS HEAD TO VIRGINIA TECH INVITATIONAL THIS WEEKEND
January 12, 2006 | Women's Track
Jan. 12, 2006
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- While the rest of the squad has the weekend off from competition, four members of the University of Tennessee women's track & field team will be in Blacksburg, Va., Friday and Saturday to take part in the Virginia Tech Invitational at Rector Fieldhouse.
A quartet of throwers will see action in two events, including with the weight throw at 5 p.m. on Friday and the shot put at noon on Saturday. Leading the Lady Vols in the weight throw will be school record-holder Ariel Brooks, who reset the UT and Stokely Athletics Center standards last Friday at the Tennessee All-Comers Meet with a heave of 65 feet, 4 3/4 inches. Joining the senior from Miami, Fla., in action on Friday evening will be sophomore Shanna Dickenson (Cincinnati, Ohio).
On Saturday, Brooks and Dickenson will join senior April Thomas (Albany, Ga.) and sophomore Amara McKell (Nashville, Tenn.) in the shot put competition. Thomas enters with a career best effort of 50 feet, six inches, which she recorded in a fifth-place performance at the 2005 Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships. That mark ranks her fourth on UT's all-time performers list in that event.
The entire Big Orange squad will return to action next Saturday, as Head Coach J.J. Clark takes his troops to Gainesville, Fla., for the Gator Invitational.
| FRIDAY, JAN. 13 |
| Wt. Throw (Auto: 21.00, Prov: 19.00) 5:00 p.m. |
| Ariel Brooks |
| Shanna Dickenson |
| SATURDAY, JAN. 14 |
| Shot Put (Auto: 16.90, Prov: 15.40) Noon |
| April Thomas |
| Ariel Brooks |
| Shanna Dickenson |
| Amara McKell |
KEY
b - Banked Track Qualifying Standard
dnf - Did Not Finish
dnr - Did Not Run
f - Facility Record
m - Meters
mr - Meet Record
nm - No Mark Recorded
p - Prelims
s - School Record (Indoors)
u - Undersized Track Qualifying Standard
* - NCAA Automatic Qualifier
+ - NCAA Provisional Qualifier
! - Personal Record (Indoors)
^ - Oversized Track Qualifying Standard
