PEORIA, Ill. -- After a week off from competition the Bradley track and field team returns to action at one of the largest indoor meets in the country, when the Braves head to Ames, Iowa, for the Iowa State Classic at the Lien Recreation Center Friday and Saturday.
The Iowa State Classic will serve as one of the final tune-ups for the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship which will be held Feb. 26 & 27 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Sixteen individuals are scheduled to compete in seven events for Bradley, which has just one other meet before the Valley Indoor Championships.
Senior Mary Goldkamp (Florissant, Mo./McCluer North) is again expected to be one of the Braves' top performers. Goldkamp will run in the mile during Saturday's competition and is currently ninth in the Valley with a team-best time of 5:05.40 in the event. She is one of eight Bradley runners slated to compete in the mile.
Friday's action will include both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters. Senior Lauren Fog (Harvard, Ill./Harvard) is the lone Brave in the 5,000 meters and will be competing in the event for the first time this season. She took third in the 3,000 meters last time out at the Illinois Intercollegiate.
Freshman Cassie Lohmeier (East Peoria, Ill./East Peoria) will also be the lone BU representative in the 3,000 meters and clocked a 5:20.83 in the same event at last month's Illinois Intercollegiate.
Junior Michelle Harman (Savanna, Ill./Prince of Peace) headlines a group of seven individuals in the 800 meter field after running a season-best 2:25.35 in the 800 at the Illinois Intercollegiate, while junior Tatierra Bivens (Chicago, Ill./Marist) holds the top times on the team in both the 60 and 200 meters heading into this weekend's competition. Junior Lyndsey Cleghorn (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) is one of two Braves competing in the high jump and cleared a season-best 1.56 meters last time out.
