The Battle Of I-75: BGSU To Host Toledo Friday Night

Friday, January 17

Bowling Green, Ohio

5:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

Toledo

Photo by: BGSU Marketing and Communications

January 16, 2020 | 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 returns home for the annual Battle of I-75 as the Falcons host Toledo Friday at Perry Field House. Field events begin at 5:00 pm and events on the track start at 6:00 pm. Admission for the meet is free, though the program will be accepting donations for the local mobile food pantry. BGSU Track & Field asks all fans to partner with them for this cause.

This will be a scored meet with individual events being scored on a 5,3,2,1 basis and relays being scored on a 5,3 basis. Only two individual entries and one relay per institution will be scored.

Schedule of Events
Heat Sheets
Live Results

FIELD EVENTS
5:00 pm: Weight throw – Kaila Butler, Kaylia Black, Katie Seyfang
5:00 pm: High jump – Hannah Shoemaker, Destiny Fernandes
5:30 pm: Long jump – Destiny Fernandes, Hannah Shoemaker, Brianna Richard, Ayanna Burrell
5:30 pm: Triple jump (following long jump) – Brianna Richard, Destiny Fernandes, Ayanna Burrell
6:40 pm: Shot put – Destiny Fernandes, Katie Seyfang, Kaylia Black, Ebonie Whitted

TRACK EVENTS
6:00 pm: 400 – Anna Roach, Jazzlynn Gaiters, Savannah Nevels
6:10 pm: Mile – Kailee Perry, Katerina Shuble, Libbie Gleason, Allison Holahan, Megan Aalberts
6:20 pm: 60 hurdles – Hannah Shoemaker, Chasatea Brown, Destiny Fernandes
6:30 pm: 60 – Jayla Currie, Iyanna Ross, Jemeila Hunter, Brianna Richard
7:20 pm: 200 – Iyanna Ross, Ryen Draper, Savannah Nevels, Jemeila Hunter, Jayla Currie, Anna Roach
7:30 pm: 800 – Kailee Perry, Trinity Fowler, Katerina Shuble, Lauren Jackson, Allison Holahan, Megan Aalberts, Libbie Gleason
7:40 pm: 3000 – Sydney Niekamp, Sarah Hunsley, Allie Zofkie
7:55 pm: 1600 relay – BGSU (Iyanna Ross, Ryen Draper, Jazzlynn Gaiters, Jemeila Hunter)

THE BATTLE OF I-75

Bowling Green leads Toledo 15-7-1 overall in head-to-head dual meets. Since restarting the Battle of I-75 for the 2013 season, the Falcons are 4-3-1 in the series. A year ago, the two teams competed in dual meets both during the indoor and outdoor seasons with Toledo coming away victorious each time. The Rockets won during the indoor campaign 70-59 and then came away with a 98-72 win during the outdoor season. From 2013-16, Bowling Green won four straight dual meets with Toledo.

FALCONS IN THE MAC RANKINGS

Listed below are all BGSU track and field student-athletes ranked among the top 20 in the MAC in a particular event. Times listed with a "c" are converted for track size.

60 – 4. Savannah Nevels 7.64, 12. Jemeila Hunter 7.75
200 – 3. Ryen Draper 24.88, 10. Iyanna Ross 25.61, 12. Hannah Shoemaker 25:70c
400 – 15. Anna Roach 59.97c
800 – 8. Lauren Jackson 2:21.81c
60 hurdles – 14. Chasatea Brown 9.15, 18. Destiny Fernandes 9.29
1600 relay – 6. Bowling Green 4:01.12c
High jump – 19. Destiny Fernandes 1.45m (4-9)
Long jump – 7. Brianna Richard 5.60m (18-4.5), 10. Ayanna Burrell 5.44m (17-10.25), 18. Hannah Shoemaker 5.26m (17-3.25)
Triple jump – 8. Ayanna Burrell 11.64m (38-2.25), 11. Destiny Fernandes 10.67m (35-0.25), 12. Brianna Richard 10.60m (34-9.5)
Shot put – 3. Katie Seyfang 14.58m (47-10), 5. Ebonie Whited 13.99m (45-10.75), 14. Daija Young 12.16m (39-10.75)
Weight throw – 1. Kaila Butler 20.36m (66-9.75) (aq), 15. Daija Young 15.25m (50-0.5)

FALCONS IN THE NCAA RANKINGS

Listed below are all BGSU track and field student-athletes ranked among the top 100 in the country in a particular event.

200 – 69. Ryen Draper 24.88
Triple jump – 98. Ayanna Burrell 11.64m (38-2.25)
Shot put – 62. Katie Seyfang 14.58m (47-10), 95. Ebonie Whitted 13.99m (45-10.75)
Weight throw – 15. Kaila Butler 20.36m (66-9.75)

ALREADY IN THE RECORD BOOKS / MORE TO COME

A handful of Falcons have already etched their names in the Bowling Green record books.
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 39.00 seconds at the BG Opener earlier this year. 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.
Iyanna Ross ranks second all-time in the 300. Her time of 39.80 seconds in the BG Opener in December would have broken the school record if not for Draper's time in the same race.
Chasatea Brown is fourth all-time in the 400, running 56.65 seconds at the same meet in 2018.
Brown, Nevels, 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.
Redshirt junior Kaila Butler ranks as the fourth-best weight throw competitor in program history. Just last week she threw a personal best 66-feet-9.75 (20.36).

POSTSEASON SCORING EXPERIENCE

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.

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