BGSU Heading To Eastern Michigan For The Can Am Classic

Saturday, January 25

Ypsilanti, Mich.

9:00 AM

Bowling Green State University

Can Am Classic

January 24, 2020 | Women's Track and Field

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

Ypsilanti, Mich. – The Bowling Green State University indoor track and field team will make the short drive to Ypsilanti Saturday to compete in the Can Am Classic (PLEASE NOTE this schedule change). The meet is scheduled to begin with shot put and weight throw at 9:00 am with running events beginning at 1:00 pm.

BGSU will enter numerous competitors ranked among the top four in the MAC, including Savannah Nevels (No. 4 in the 60), Jemeila Hunter (No. 4 in the 200), Katerina Shuble (No. 3 in the mile), Ebonie Whitted (No. 4 in the shot put) and Kaila Butler (No. 1 in the weight throw). Butler enters the meet ranked No. 19 nationally in the weight throw as well.

LINKS TO KNOW

Live Results
BGSU Performance List
Indoor School Records

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FIELD EVENTS
9:00 am: Shot put – Kaylia Black, Katie Seyfang, Ebonie Whitted, Daija Young
9:00 am: Weight throw (following men) – Kaila Butler, Kaylia Black, Katie Seyfang, Daija Young
11:00 am: Long jump – Destiny Fernandes, Brianna Richard
Triple jump (following LJ) – Ayanna Burrell, Brianna Richard
1:00 pm: High jump – Destiny Fernandes

TRACK EVENTS (ROLLING SCHEDULE BEGINNING AT 1:00 PM)
60 hurdles – Destiny Fernandes
Mile – Megan Aalberts, Allison Holahan, Libbie Gleason, Kailee Perry, Katerina Shuble
60 – Jayla Currie, Destiny Fernandes, Savannah Nevels, Hannah Shoemaker, Jemeila Hunter, Anna Roach, Brianna Richard
400 – Ryen Draper, Jazzlynn Gaiters, Iyanna Ross
600 – Lauren Jackson, Destiny Fernandes
800 – Kailee Perry, Katerina Shuble, Trinity Fowler, Lauren Jackson
200 – Jayla Currie, Hannah Shoemaker, Jemeila Hunter, Anna Roach
1600 relay – BGSU A, BGSU B
800 relay – BGSU

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, 8. Jemeila Hunter 7.70, 20. Iyanna Ross 7.82
200 – 4. Jemeila Hunter 24.85c, 5. Ryen Draper 24.88, 7. Savannah Nevels 24.97c, 14. Iyanna Ross 25.42, 18. Hannah Shoemaker 25:70c
400 – 13. Jazzlynn Gaiters 57.84c
800 – 10. Katerina Shuble 2:17.69c, 12. Kailee Perry 2:18.25c, 16. Trinity Fowler 2:19.09c
Mile – 3. Katerina Shuble 4:55.73c, 5. Kailee Perry 4:59.18c
60 hurdles – 18. Chasatea Brown 9.15
1600 relay – 6. Bowling Green 3:59.52c
High jump – 11. Destiny Fernandes 1.60m (5-3)
Long jump – 8. Brianna Richard 5.60m (18-4.5), 15. Ayanna Burrell 5.44m (17-10.25)
Triple jump – 8. Ayanna Burrell 11.64m (38-2.25), 16. Brianna Richard 10.71m (35-1.75), 17. Destiny Fernandes 10.67m (35-0.25)
Shot put – 4. Ebonie Whitted 14.88m (48-10), 6. Katie Seyfang 14.58m (47-10), 19. Daija Young 12.16m (39-10.75)
Weight throw – 1. Kaila Butler 20.36m (66-9.75) (aq), 14. Katie Seyfang 15.86m (52-0.5), 18. Kaylia Black 15.63m (51-3.5)

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.

Mile – 87. Katerina Shuble 4:55.73c
Shot put – 75. Ebonie Whitted 14.88m (48-10), 95. Katie Seyfang 14.58m (47-10)
Weight throw – 19. 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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