Cambridge, Mass. - The Harvard track and field teams will send athletes to three different meets this weekend from Friday, March 24 to Saturday, March 25. The meets are Raleigh Relays, hosted by N.C. State in Raleigh, N.C., the Hurricane Invite, hosted by Miami University in Coral Gables, FL, and the UMass Lowell Riverhawk Invite in Lowell, Mass.

Crimson athletes will compete at Raleigh Relays on Friday, a day in which competition begins at 9:45 a.m. with the women's discus throw and ends after the conclusion of the final section of the men's 10000m run at 10:35 p.m. The Hurricane Invite's Saturday schedule begins at 11 a.m. with the women's javelin throw and will conclude with the men's 4x400m relay at 4:00 p.m. The Riverhawk Invite will start at 10 a.m. on Saturday with the men's hammer throw and run until the men's 4x400m relay ends, as events will follow a rolling schedule throughout the day. Full meet schedules and live results links are available at the links above. The Raleigh Relays meet is available to stream on ACCNX. 

What to Know

• The Crimson opened the 2023 outdoor season last week at the Houston Spring Break Invite, where three school records were broken and multiple athletes recorded marks that led the nation or placed in the top ten after week one of competition.
• Stephanie Ratcliffe started the meet with a win and school record in the hammer throw, beating her own previous school record to set the new distance to beat at 67.61m. This is the furthest an NCAA DI athlete has thrown so far this year as she now sits first in the nation. 
• The men's 4x100m relay of Collin Fullen, Lance Ward, Jaeschel Acheampong and Jonas Clarke won the meet and posted the fastest time in Harvard history with a 40.19. 
• Anastasia Retsa built on her success from the indoor season and vaulted over 4.16m to win the Houston Spring Break invite and break her own outdoor pole vault record. She is ranked third in the nation after a full week of competition. 
• Estel Valeanu had an excellent opening meet, scoring two wins in the discus and shot put.

Up Next

Harvard will send athletes to two meets from March 30 to April 1 with the Florida Relays meet spanning three days and the UMass Dartmouth Corsair Classic taking place only on Saturday, April 1.