If coach Clay Calkins' team could choose to parlay a disappointment into a solid finish, this weekend would not be a bad choice.
The All-Ohio Championships, featuring all but a handful of college programs from around the state in both Division I and II, will converge on Findlay this weekend in the winter season's biggest event.
Malcolm Athletic Center on the UF campus will be a popular spot this weekend, with the Findlay Open taking place today, and the All-Ohio Championships both today and tomorrow
This is a key meet for us
Calkins said. The team is excited coming in we're looking for some great performances. This is one of the major meets of the indoor season.
Ohio junior hurdler Melissa Wiley has been on a consistent run of improvement lately, setting her season-best mark in the 60-meter hurdles two weeks ago at Akron (8.67), and nearly matched the same pace last week at the Bowling Green Quad with a time of 8.77.
Last weekend, it was freshman Kristi Sturges who set Ohio's season-best mark in the long jump. It took only a week for it to be matched, as Brittany Vinson recorded an identical jump of 17 feet, four inches.
A fourth-place finish last weekend at Bowling Green didn't sit well with the Bobcats, who ran despite the absence of some of their top runners.
Calkins said that while practices will intensify in the week leading up to important events such as the All-Ohio, it's up to the runners to decide the outcome on the track.
Earlier in the year we try to crank up the volume (of workouts in practice)
Calkins said. As we get toward big events like these
we start chiseling down and honing in on our skill and speed.
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