Thrower Veronica Jatsek Paces Women’s Track and Field Team at Kentucky Invitational – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/12/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
Jan. 12, 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State junior thrower Veronica Jatsek won the women’s weight throw with an NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 64-3 ¼ to pace the Buckeye women’s track and field team Friday on the first day of the Kentucky Invitational at Nutter Field House in Lexington, Ky. The event, held on the University of Kentucky campus, opened the season for the Buckeyes and served as head coach Karen Dennis’ first meet at the helm of the women’s team.
OSU will conclude the Kentucky Invitational Saturday, as action resumes in Nutter Field House at 10:30 a.m.
Jatsek (Walton Hills, Ohio) also completed day one with a fourth-place finish in the discus throw (146-05). In the triple jump, senior Veronica Vance (Cincinnati, Ohio) came in third with a mark of 40-3 1/2. Kim Willett (So., Westerville, Ohio) took eighth in the pole vault with a jump of 10-11 3/4. Also in the women’s weight throw, junior Ashley Riehm (Perrysburg, Ohio) was 12th with a throw of 53-2 1/4.
