ELON, N.C. – The Elon University women's track and field team hits the road this weekend, Feb. 11-12 for its two-day meet at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational inside the Liberty University Indoor Track Complex.
 
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• Updates of the meet will be posted on the team's social media pages on Twitter and Instagram at the handle, @ElonXCTF.
• Live results will be provided and can be found on the program's schedule page at elonphoenix.com along with a recap and results at the conclusion of the meet.
 
Meet Info
• This is the eighth annual Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational. The meet is named in honor for Darius Dixon, a sprinter for Liberty who passed away in a car accident at the age of 18 in 2013.
• The inaugural Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational was contested on Dec. 3-4, 2014 at the now defunct Tolsma Indoor Track Center.
 
Phoenix Entries
• Elon is scheduled to have 31 athletes compete on Friday and Saturday Below is a list of events for the Phoenix athletes slated to compete:
 
Schedule of Events:
 
Friday, February 11
Field Events
3:00 PM: Women's Long Jump (Alex Tudor, Alexa Mark)
3:30 PM: Women's Pole Vault Elite (Madison George)
5:30 PM: Women's Pole Vault (Blythe Hehmeyer, Jessica Anderson)
6:00 PM: Women's Weight Throw (Kaitlin McGoogan, Lauryn Carlton, Kristine Strazdite)
 
Running events
1:30 PM: Women's 60-meters prelims (Danielle Dyer, Meghan Wilcox, Jordan Haywood)
1:55 PM: Women's 60-meter hurdles prelims (Alyssa Sandy)
2:35 PM: 60-meters semifinals
3:00 PM: 60-meter hurdles semifinals
4:45 PM: Women's 3000m (Jette Beermann, Hannah Preeo, Lizzie Vinci, Alice Roberts)
6:20 PM: Women's 400-meters (Aliya Barrows, Riley Drometer)
7:15 PM: Women's 800-meters (Emily Alps, Arianna Sakoutis, Anna Twomey, Stephanie Lair, Sabrina Mannes)
8:45 PM: Women's 5,000-meters (Maggie Springer)
 
Saturday, February 12
Field Events
10:30 AM: Women's Shot Put (Carlton, McGoogan)
 
Running events
11:15 AM: 500-meters (Tessa DiPierdomenico, Anna Kozlova, Alison Hodgson)
11:30 AM: 300-meters (Piper Jons, Milly Heinbaugh, Kozlova)
12:15 PM: 60-meters finals
12:30 PM: Women's 60-meter hurdles finals
12:45 PM: Women's 1,000-meters (Twomey, Audrey Durbin)
1:20 PM: Women's DMR
1:35 PM: Women's 200-meters (Wilcox, Haywood, Heinbaugh)
2:15 AM: Women's Mile (Beermann, Preeo, Hannah Miller)
3:10 PM: Women's 4x400 (#1: Barrows, DiPierdomenico, Drometer, Jons; #2: Kozlova, Lair, Mannes, Alps)
 
Last Time Out
• Elon last competed at the Camel City Invite on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 4-5 inside the JDL Fast Track Complex in Winston-Salem, N.C.
• McGoogan broke her own school-record in the weight throw, tossing an heave of 18.47m to win the event. Carlton established a new personal-best in the event, throwing a mark of 17.65m and was second overall.
• The Phoenix also won the 4x400-meter relay for the third straight meet. The group of Barrows, DiPierdomenico, Drometer and Jons clocked a time of 3:51.91.
• George was third overall in the women's pole vault, clearing the bar at a height of 3.80m. Tudor was fifth overall in the long jump with a best leap of 5.44m.
• In the women's 600-meters, Lair was third with a time of 1:36.62 – the third-fastest time in school history. Mannes was seventh as she clocked a time of 1:39.86 to also move into the program's top-10 performance list.
 
Up Next
• Elon will head back to the JDL Fast Track Complex for its final meet of the regular indoor season at the JDL DMR Invite on Feb. 18-19.