Falcons To Open Season Friday For BG Opener At Perry Field House

Friday, December 6

Bowling Green, Ohio

5:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

BG Opener

Photo by: BGSU Marketing and Communications

December 05, 2019 | Women's Track and Field

By: by Jason Knavel, Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Communications

Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University indoor track and field team will host the BG Opener Friday beginning at 5:00 pm to kick start the 2019-20 season. The Falcons welcome Cleveland State and Miami to Perry Field House for the meet.

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BGSU will place multiple competitors in most events Friday. Following a fourth place finish at the MAC Indoor Championships a year ago, Kaila Butler will compete in the event at 5:00 pm. While BGSU's 1600 relay teams are shuffled, the Falcons return all four runners from last year's school-record breaking team and they will conclude the meet at 7:30 pm.

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FIELD EVENTS
5:00 pm: Weight throw – Daija Young, Kaila Butler, Reagan Emberton (unattached)
Following weight throw: Shot put – Daija Young, Ebonie Whitted, Reagan Emberton (unattached), Katie Seyfang
5:00 pm: High jump – Destiny Fernandes
5:30 pm: Long jump – Hannah Shoemaker, Destiny Fernandes, Ayanna Burrell, Brianna Richard
Following long jump: Triple jump – Brianna Richard, Ayanna Burrell

TRACK EVENTS
6:00 pm: 60 prelims – Ryen Draper, Iyanna Ross, Jemeila Hunter, Savannah Nevels
6:10 pm: 300 – Iyanna Ross, Ryen Draper, Chasatea Brown
6:20 pm: 400 – Anna Roach
6:35 pm: 60 hurdles – Chasatea Brown, Destiny Fernandes
6:50 pm: 60 finals – Ryen Draper, Iyanna Ross, Jemeila Hunter, Savannah Nevels
7:00 pm: 200 – Jayla Currie, Hannah Shoemaker
7:10 pm: 800 – Lauren Jackson
7:30 pm: 1600 relay – BGSU A (Chasatea Brown, Jayla Currie, Ryen Draper, Jemeila Hunter); BGSU B (Savannah Nevels, Anna Roach, Iyanna Ross, Hannah Shoemaker)

VETERANS TO PACE THE FALCONS

Bowling Green returns a handful of student-athletes who have scored in the postseason during their careers.
Senior Kaila Butler placed fourth at the MAC Championships in the weight throw a year ago. A second team All-American in the hammer throw during outdoor season, Butler has international experience as a member of Team Canada.
Butler also placed sixth at the MAC Championships in the weight throw as a sophomore in 2018.
BGSU's 1600 relay team placed sixth at the MAC Championships a year ago and all four members of that unit return. Senior Chasatea Brown, juniors Savannah Nevels and Ryen Draper, and sophomore Iyanna Ross make for a strong foundation in the relays.
Draper also earned an eighth place finish at the MAC Championships in the 400 in 2018.
Junior Jessi Lindstrom was a member of the distance medley relay team that finished sixth at the MAC Championships in 2018.

ALREADY IN THE RECORD BOOKS / MORE TO COME

A handful of returning Falcons have already etched their names in the Bowling Green record books prior to the season beginning.
Savannah Nevels ranks as the fifth-fastest woman in school history in the 200 with a personal best time of 24.66 seconds at the MAC Championships a year ago.
During that same meet, Ryen Draper ran the 200 in 24.72 seconds to nestle in just behind Nevels as the sixth-fastest in program history.
Draper is also the fastest woman in program history in the non-traditional 300. She ran that distance in 39.88 seconds at the BG Opener during the 2017-18 season. Draper is also fifth fastest in the 400 with a time of 56.70 seconds in Feb. of 2018 at Grand Valley State's The Big Meet.
Chasatea Brown is fourth all-time in the 400, running 56.65 seconds at the same meet in 2018.
Brown, Nevels, Iyanna Ross and Draper broke the school record in the 1600 relay at last year's MAC Championships. They posted a time of 3:45.49.
Sophomore Ayanna Burrell broke into the top 10 in the triple jump as a freshman a year ago. She leaped 38-feet (11.58m) at Notre Dame's Meyo Invitational to reach seventh in program history.
Senior Kaila Butler ranks as the fourth-best weight throw competitor in program history. Her distance of 64-feet-6.5 (19.67m) at the MAC Championships last year stands as her personal best in collegiate competition.