Bulldogs Head To Horizon League Championship
2011 Horizon League Championship Schedule
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. -- Butler will look to a strong corps of
middle distance and distance runners to spark its bid when it
competes in the 2011 Horizon League Outdoor Track and Field
Championship, beginning on Friday, May 6. The three-day meet,
hosted by Butler, will be held at Michael A. Carroll Stadium on the
IUPUI campus in Indianapolis.
Action on Friday will begin at 2 p.m. (ET) with competition in the
decathlon and heptathlon. Finals in the
men’s/women’s discus and men’s/women’s
10,000 meter run are slated for later in the afternoon and
evening. On Saturday, the decathlon/heptathlon will begin at
9 a.m., while field events will start at 1:30 p.m.
Preliminaries in the running events will start at 3 p.m.
Sunday’s finals in the field events will begin at 11 a.m.,
while the running events will start at noon.
Butler returns three champions from last year’s league meet,
including a pair of double-winners. Kirsty Legg won both the
women’s 800 and the women’s 1500 a year ago, while
Lauren McKillop captured titles in the women’s 5,000 and the
women’s 10,000. Justin Roeder returns after winning the
men’s 5,000 at last year’s meet.
Also on hand for the Bulldogs are a host of athletes who placed
runner-up in the league championship a year ago. Kris Gauson
finished second in both the men’s 800 and the men’s
1500, and he boasts the league’s top 1500 meter time this
year. Roeder, who has the league’s best time in the
men’s 10,000 this spring, was runner-up in the 10,000 a year
ago. McKillop was second in the women’s 1500 last year,
while Kaitlyn Love finished runner-up in the women’s
800. Marbeth Shiell placed second in the women’s 5,000
at last year’s meet, while Nicole Humphrey was runner-up in
the women’s 3000 meter steeplechase.
Heading into this weekend’s competition, Legg boasts the
Horizon League’s top times in both the women’s 800 and
the women’s 1500, while Shiell tops the league in the
women’s 5,000. McKillop has the league’s best
mark in the women’s 10,000 and Shelbi Burnett leads the pack
in the women’s steeplechase. On the men’s side,
Callum Hawkins boasts the league’s best 5,000 meter time.
A year ago, Butler swept the top thee spots in the women’s
800 and the top four positions in the women’s 1500, and all
of those runners return this year.
Butler placed third in the women’s competition a year ago,
while Butler’s men were fourth. Milwaukee won both the
men’s and women’s titles.
