Track & Field Prepares for Virginia Classic

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State track & field team will travel to Charlottesville, Va. for the Virginia Challenge from Thursday, April 20, to Saturday, April 22.
 
Last season, the Nittany Lions set 10 top ten program marks at the Virginia Challenge in an excellent outing for the team. Head coach John Gondak‘s group seeks to match that success in the three-day meet this year.
 
Penn State’s multi-event athletes are set to compete in their first heptathlon of the 2023 campaign, with those events to take place on Thursday. Penn State’s full throws contingent will also return to action this weekend alongside the regularly scheduled track events.
 
THE COMPETITION
 
Start lists have not yet been listed, this story will be updated as more information comes available.
 
NITTANY LIONS IN THE RANKINGS
 
The Nittany Lions have 11 top-25 marks in the NCAA and 35 top-ten marks in the Big Ten conference as it prepares for competition at Virginia. Penn State’s men’s 800-meter squad remains the top group in the nation this week, according to the USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings. The women’s 800-meter group comes in at sixth in the NCAA and the women’s 1500-meter squad is 14^th.
 
NCAA Top-25
Men’s Team

 
Women’s Team

 
Big Ten Top Ten
Men’s Team
400m

800m

1500m

10,000m

3,000m Steeplechase

4x400m Relay

• 5 – Smallwood, Dodds, Roban, Desmeules – 4x400m – 3:08.57

Pole Vault

Shot Put

Discus

Hammer Throw

Javelin

 
Women’s Team
800m

1500m

• 3 – Maddie Ullom – 4:16.05
• 4 – Kileigh Kane – 4:16.66

5000m

3,000m Steeplechase

4x100m Relay

• 7 – Goldstein, Brown, Madson, Princz – 45.56

4x400m Relay

• 6 – Madson, Brown, Goldstein, Gearing – 3:41.44

High Jump

Pole Vault

Long Jump

Shot Put

Discus

Hammer Throw

Javelin

 
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