CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard track and field team heads to the Collegiate Invitational at the Armory and the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at the BU Track & Tennis Center this weekend, Feb. 7-8.
The 14th-annual Collegiate Invitational has been selected as the USTFCCCA Division I National Meet of the Week. The Crimson will join more than 100 top universities, including Arizona, Arkansas, BYU, Clemson, Duke, Kansas, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Rutgers and Wisconsin.
Action at the Armory will start at 9:30 a.m. on Friday with the 3K and 8:30 a.m. on Saturday (5K).
The women will get things started at BU on Friday with the 800 meter run, while the men will be in action on Saturday at 11 a.m., starting with heats of the 60 meter hurdles.
A week ago, junior Danielle Barbian bested her own school record in the 60 meter dash, recording a time of 7.52 at the Harvard Invitational. The Crimson men posted strong finishes in the field, completing a 1-2-3 sweep in the weight throw. Senior Dustin Brode led the charge with a toss of 18.62m (61-00.25) for a first-place finish.
The Crimson excelled in their last showing at BU, as senior Maksim Korolev posted the fastest 5K times in the NCAA this season, taking down a Harvard school record from 1996, at the John Thomas Terrier Invitational. The women's 4x4 relay team also made their mark, besting a 15-year-old school record by over three seconds.
Harvard heads to New Haven, Conn., next weekend for the H-Y-P tri-meet against Princeton and Yale.
