Marquette vs UWM Dual Meet

Hello everyone, I am sorry that my updates have been lacking lately. The past couple of weeks have been very busy and I have had to put off updating the blog.

Last Friday both our men's and women's teams came out victorious as we renewed a dual meet series with UW-Milwaukee that we hope to continue on an annual basis from here on out. Some years we may compete indoors at UWM and other years we will be outdoors at the Valley. We do not necessarily have a set pattern of when it will be indoors and when it will be outdoors, it will probably come down to where we can fit the meet in with our respective schedules.

Interestingly enough, after doing some digging through old files, it appears that the last dual meet HOSTED by Marquette was back in 1972 when UWM beat Marquette at Marquette Stadium. As far as I could tell by looking at the old files it may have been the last Marquette track meet held at Marquette Stadium. If any of you know anything different, please let me know!

To check out the GoMarquette.com recap and meet results click here.

To check out the photo gallery from the meet click here.


Here are a few videos from the meet...


Tyler O'Brien winning the Men's 100m... making him "Milwaukee's Fastest Man"




Olivia Johnson just edged out Katlin Millin to win the Women's 800m.




Nick Van Deraa took 2nd in the Pole Vault with a jump of 14'6". The pole vault took place in the Marquette Gym the due to the umpredicatable weather in the Valley. This was likely the first official track & field competition held in the Gym since the 1960s.




Alyssa Davis won the Triple jump with a jump of 36'9.75" (her first jump).




Mike O'Brien won the 400m Hurdles in a time of 54.82.




Erynn James won the high jump with a jump of 5'5". Erynn only took 2 jumps on the day. Everyone else was out of the competition when Erynn came in at 5'3". She made that height and proceeded to 5'5", deciding to stop after clearing the bar.




Shawn McLarney took 2nd in the Long Jump with a jump of 22'0.25"




Liz Wilkie took 2nd in the Pole Vault with a PR 11'6.25"




Eric Meissner won the Men's 800m; just holding off Peter Bolgert and UWM runner Jake Spaciel.




Lauren Darnall took 3rd in the Pole Vault with a PR jump of 11'0.25"