Pirates Close Regular Season at Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational

Friday, February 9

Lynchburg, VA

East Carolina University

Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational

Photo by: Tom Connelly

Pirates Close Regular Season at Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational

February 08, 2024 | Track & Field

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina track & field program will compete in one more regular season indoor meet on Friday and Saturday at Liberty's Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational as the team makes its final preparations for the 2024 AAC Indoor Championships.

Portions of the meet will be available for streaming on ESPN+ with live coverage scheduled for Friday from 5:30-9 p.m. and Saturday from Noon-4 p.m.

The Pirates will be taking a big group up to Lynchburg, Va. as they looked to continue what has been a successful indoor season to this point – including just last week as the team sent athletes to Virginia Tech and South Carolina.

At Tech, Starrett Vesper starred, just missing the program record in the heptathlon with 4,797 points while Nate Williams, Jared Harrell, Lily Schlossberg and Alyssa Zack all put up top-10 performances in ECU history as well. In South Carolina, Melicia Mouzzon showered her talent once again with the second fastest 200m in program history at 23.65 seconds.

Quotable
"This is our last to tune up before we compete in the AAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in two weeks," said Director of Track & Field Curt Kraft. "It's important that we have a good meet in some event areas that we have not got much accomplished in yet. There will be some great competition at Liberty University this weekend.I have been extremely proud of both teams with the effort and energy that they've competed with up to this point. As I have said many times before, it is very important that we come out of this meet healthy. We are competing with a lot of confidence and momentum going into this weekend."

ECU Entries
Women
60m: Calandra Henry, Rosalynd Hollingsworth, Teliyah James, Makhia Jarrett, Andralyn Livingston
200m: Jarrett, James, Henry, Alaya Gillespie
300m: Natalie Mial, Hollingsworth, Naturi Robinson, Jordyn Jeffers
400m: Nyah Gore, Mial, Jeffers, Gillespie
800m: Lily Schlossberg, Sarah Ann Miller
1,000m: Abrielle Schweitzer, Brianna Winsett
1 Mile: Lily Schlossberg
60mH: Robinson
High Jump: Molly Stecker, Faith Spencer
Pole Vault: Rileigh Cardin, Sarah Smith
Long Jump: Elizabeth Taylor, L'Nya Carpenter, Stephanie Robson
Triple Jump: Taylor, Carpenter, Robson
Shot Put: Naadiya Faison, Jocelyn Pringle
Weight Throw: Nyah Edwards, Faison, A'riana Crumpler, Rebekah Bergquist, Pringle

Men
60m: Royal Burris, Cameron Moore, Everton Muir
200m: Martin
400m: Blake Moody, Jaelyn Green
1,000m: J Henry Lyon
1 Mile: Chase Osborne
3,000m: Ted Sielatycki, Ryan Tarapchak
5,000m: Colin McCauley
60mH: Terence Booth, Jr., Starrett Vesper
Pole Vault: Vesper
Long Jump: Jared Harrell, Nate Williams, Javariante Core, Vesper
Triple Jump: Williams, Harrell, Core
Shot Put: Shakiel Dacres
Weight Throw: Brock Lasure