Falcons Host BG Opener Saturday

BG OPENER
Date	Jan. 11, 2014
Time	11:00 AM
Location	Bowling Green, Ohio \| Perry Fieldhouse
Coverage	Live Results
Additional Information	Twitter \| Facebook \| Heat Sheets

FASTEST KID IN BOWLING GREEN INFORMATION

Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University indoor track and field team will host the first of two home meets Saturday as the Falcons participate in the BG Opener Saturday at 11:00 am at Perry Fieldhouse on the campus of BGSU.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
The BGSU track and field team can be followed all spring long through a number of ways. Follow the official team Twitter account @BGXCTrack and the official account of the Athletics Department @BGAthletics. Live results of Saturday's meet can be found through links at BGSUFalcons.com or via the FinishTiming.com website.

ABOUT THE BG OPENER
The BG Opener will be contested at Perry Fieldhouse at 801 N. Mercer Rd. in Bowling Green on the campus of BGSU and it will be a scored meet. Western Michigan, Toledo, Ball State and IPFW are expected to compete at the meet and WMU is the three-time defending champion of the BG Opener. Fan and spectator parking is free in the lot surrounding Perry Fieldhouse. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for non-BGSU students with an ID. BGSU students are admitted free of charge with ID. As well, any child competing in the Fastest Kid in Bowling Green event will be admitted free of charge (Parents and spectators must be admission charge). The tentative schedule of events for the meet is listed below:

11:00 am – Weight Throw (Shot Put to follow)
11:00 am – Long Jump (Triple Jump to follow)
11:00 am – High Jump
11:00 am – Triple Jump
12:30 pm – 5,000
12:55 pm – 60 Hurdles prelims
1:10 pm – 60 prelims
1:20 pm – Mile
1:45 pm – 400
2:00 pm – Fastest Kid In Bowling Green Intermission
2:20 pm – 60 Hurdles finals
2:30 pm – 60 finals
2:35 pm – 800
2:45 pm – 600
2:55 pm – 200
3:10 pm – 3,000
3:40 pm – 1600 Relay

THE FASTEST KID IN BOWLING GREEN
All elementary-aged children are invited to attend the BG Opener and take part in the Fastest Kid in Bowling Green event. Competitors will be admitted to the meet free of charge and registration is allowed on the day of the meet. The Fastest Kid in Bowling Green event will allow elementary-aged children to run in an untimed 60-meter race on the same indoor track and field surface used by the BGSU Track and Field Team. Complete details are available at BGSUFalcons.com (CLICK HERE).

LAST TIME OUT
Bowling Green opened the indoor track and field season Dec. 6-7 at the Golden Flash Gala, hosted by Kent State University. The meet took place in the same facility where the MAC Championships will take place Feb. 28-March 1. Senior sprinter Jeanette Pettigrew met the automatic qualifying mark for the MAC Championship in the 60, finishing second with a time of 7.56 seconds. Transfer Alicia Arnold, competing in her first collegiate meet for Bowling Green, placed second in the long jump with a distance of 18-feet-5. Redshirt junior Brittany Sinclair ended third in the 400.

RETURNING POINT SCORERS
While the Falcons boast a lot of youth on the 2014 team, Bowling Green does return a handful of student-athletes who have a successful history at the MAC Championships. Redshirt junior Brooke Pleger placed fifth in the weight throw a year ago and classmate Brittany Sinclair placed sixth in the 400. Sinclair and sophomore Taylor Rambo represent half of the 1600 relay team that set a school record at the MAC Championships and placed fourth last year. On top of those, redshirt senior Jeanette Pettigrew placed second in the 60 in both 2011 and 2012.

NIFTY SIXTY
Redshirt senior Jeanette Pettigrew has a long and storied history in the 60-meter dash. As a true freshman in 2010, Pettigrew placed sixth at the MAC Championships in the event and then followed that up with second-place finishes in both 2011 and 2012. After redshirting the 2013 season, Pettigrew quickly reminded anyone who may have forgotten about her that she will be one of the favorites again this year. She hit the MAC automatic qualifying mark in the team's opening meet, the Golden Flash Gala, with a time of 7.62 seconds in the prelims and then a 7.56 in the finals. In 2011, she ran the event in a school-record time of 7.40 at the MAC Championships and then went 7.48 in 2012.

TRANSFERS OF POWER
Sophomore transfer Alicia Arnold made an immediate impact in strengthening the Falcons in the long jump, leaping 18-feet-5 at the Golden Flash Gala in her first meet with the Orange and Brown. Arnold placed second at the meet and her distance was further than any Falcon jumped a year ago. She also ran 7.67 seconds in the 60, a time which would have placed her seventh at the MAC Championships a year ago.

Senior transfer Tina Perrine also made her mark at the Golden Flash Gala, tossing the weight throw 56-feet-5.25. That was the Falcons' top result and was less than three inches shy of the MAC automatic qualifying mark.

REISING TO THE OCCASION
Junior Krystin Reiser set a new personal best in the pentathlon during the season-opening Golden Flash Gala. With a previous career-best score of 2,857 in the five events that make up the pentathlon, Reiser beat that total by more than 400 points, scoring 3,275.

CAPTAINS
BGSU head coach Lou Snelling has named three captains for the 2013-14 season. Redshirt sophomore Andrea Alt, redshirt junior Brooke Pleger and redshirt senior Jeanette Pettigrew will guide the Falcons.

SNELLING RECOGNIZED BY SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE
A six-time Southland Conference Coach of the Year at Stephen F. Austin, BGSU head coach Lou Snelling was named to the All-Time Southland Conference Honor Roll earlier this year. As part of its 50^th anniversary celebration, the conference honored 65 student-athletes and eight coaches (of which Snelling was recognized) for their historic contributions to the sport.

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