Drake Relays on the Horizon for Ohio State – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/28/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
April 28, 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State track and field team travels to Des Moines, Iowa, for the 107th edition of the Drake Relays April 29-30.
The annual meet is hosted by Drake University on the famous blue oval inside Drake Stadium. The venue has hosted several premiere track and field events including the 2010 and 2013 USA Track and Field Championships and multiple NCAA regional championships and NCAA outdoor championships.
Seniors J.C. Murasky and Alexis Franklin will look to defend their titles at Drake this weekend. Murasky is the reigning men’s shot put champion, while Franklin is the two-time defending champ in the women’s 400-meter hurdles.
All information regarding the meet can be found using the link at the top of the page. NBC Sports Network will air live coverage of the Drake Relays Saturday from 3-5 p.m. ET.
A complete recap will be available following competition on OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
Notable Competing Teams
Baylor (No. 17 W)
Illinois
Iowa (No. 22 M)
Minnesota (No. 11 M)
Nebraska (No. 23 W)
Ohio State
Purdue
TCU (No. 19 M)
Texas (No. 4 W, No. 6 M)
Texas Tech (No. 9 M)
Wisconsin (No. 19 W)
Pole Vaulters Compete at Ashland Alumni Open
Ohio State’s pole vault team, along with several field and multi-event athletes will compete at the Ashland Alumni Open in Ashland, Ohio, on Saturday, April 30.
Events begin at 10 a.m. ET Saturday at Dwight Schar Athletic Complex.
Ohio Supercomputer Center Names New System After Jesse Owens
Having set collegiate athletics afire a year earlier with four world records set or tied in a single day, Jesse Owens sprinted to four gold medals and two Olympic records at the 1936 Berlin Games and refuted the Nazi notion of Aryan racial superiority.
Because of his legacy as a renowned Olympic champion, a beacon for racial equality and a constant youth advocate, officials at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) will name their next supercomputer after the great Olympic sprinter and Buckeye legend.
The new Dell Owens Cluster will be powered by Dell PowerEdge servers featuring the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family, include storage components manufactured by DDN and utilize interconnects provided by Mellanox. The new system will increase the center’s total computing capacity by a factor of four and its storage capacity by three. Owens was chosen from a list of esteemed finalists that included Nobel Prize winners, famous inventors, talented musicians, well-known industrialists and a former president.
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, addresses the expanding computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis.
For more information, visit https://www.osc.edu/jesse_owens.
Scarlet and Gray in the USTFCCCA Great Lakes Regional Rankings
Men (Top 5)
1. Indiana – 671.36
2. Michigan – 591.68
3. Akron – 579.88
4. Purdue – 555.00
5. Ohio State – 526.83
Women (Top 5)
1. Purdue – 690.50 points
2. Michigan – 573.84
3. Michigan State – 543.38
4. Ohio State – 534.38
5. Cincinnati – 509.18
The regional team index uses data provided by TFRRS for only the 2016 outdoor season and is a reflection of a team’s all-around strength. The regional team index is scored using the current national-team ranking formula as if there were separate regional championships across the country.
Buckeyes in the Individual Top 25
Five Ohio State student-athletes have posted among the Top 25 times/marks in Division I this season according to Track & Field Results Reporting System (www.TFRRS.org). A look at where the Buckeyes stand:
Men
J.C. Murasky – No. 4, shot put
Nick Gray – No. 11, 200-meter dash; No. 21, 400-meter dash
Bill Stanley – No. 17, javelin
Women
SoSo Walker – No. 13, 400-meter dash
Rachel Weber – No. 22, 800-meter run
Last Time Out
Ohio State athletes earned victories in nine events at the 31st annual Jesse Owens Track & Field Classic April 22-23 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
Buckeye winners included:
• Weber, who raced to a personal-best time of 2:05.12 in the women’s 800-meter run, the second-fastest time in school history. Weber currently ranks 22nd in the NCAA and No. 1 in the Big Ten;
• Walker, who turned in a personal-best time of 23.34 in her first women’s 200-meter dash since 2013, the sixth-fastest time in OSU outdoor history;
• Stanley and Allie Missler in the men’s and women’s javelin;
• Murasky, who remained unbeaten on the year in the men’s shot put;
• Cavin, who recorded a personal-best time of 53.43 in the women’s 400-meter dash;
• Evan Stifel, who raced to a personal-best time of 14:32.59 in the men’s 5000-meter run;
• and the women’s 4×100- and 4×400-meter relay teams
Up Next
Ohio State has a week off prior to the 2016 Big Ten Outdoor Championships May 13-15 in Lincoln, Neb.
