PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania track & field programs take a trip to Happy Valley this weekend, competing at the Penn State National.
 
PENN STATE NATIONAL
Friday - Saturday, January 27-28 | 11:30 a.m.
PSU Multi-Sport Facility | State College, Pa.
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Teams Competing
Besides the Quakers, 31 different programs will be present at the event. Penn is the only Ivy school competing at the meet, but is will be competing against some other successful teams such as the Nittany Lions, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, Villanova, and more.
 
Penn's Last Time Out
The Quakers traveled south last weekend for the Wesley A. Brown Invitational at the Naval Academy as five different athletes hit top-10 program marks. Dimitri Nicholson, Jake Rose and Alec Jackson all put together performances on the men's side that moved them up the record book. Nicholson clocked a time of 6.81 in the 60m for fourth place, moving him into third in program history. Rose, in the 60m hurdles, crossed the finish line in 8.12 for sixth in history. Earning the victory in the race was freshman Shane Gardner, hitting a mark of 7.93, just .02 off his personal record set last weekend. Jackson led a group of three Quakers in the top five of the 500m, crossing in second place with a time of 1:03.98, good enough to place him 10th in history. Robbie Ruppel and Devante Heywood came through in third and fourth, respectively. The Quakers had plenty of other success through the meet with an additional two victories. On the infield for the men, Kampton Kam collected the top spot in the high jump with a clearance of 2.08m, while James Rhoads earned first at the pole vault with a height of 5.15m.
 
The women's team also had a successful trip to Annapolis, with the other two program top-10 marks as well as the 4x400m relay squad. In the 500m, Isabella Whittaker earned a top finish with a time of 1:13.78 to move into eighth in program history, while Jocelyn Niemiec followed her in for second with a time of 1:14.15 for 10th in the record book. Aliya Garozzo collected a third-place finish in the race, coming through just shy of Niemiec with a time of 1:14.45. Whittaker and Niemiec teamed up with Moforehan Abinusawa and Caia Gelli in the 4x400m relay as well, earning first in the event with a time of 3:43.05, a mark that lands fourth in program history. The Quakers another victory in the women's 60m hurdles, as Katherine Muccio earned first with a time of 8.68.