Lehigh Men’s Track and Field Set For Another Two-Meet Weekend

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  • Coach Pollard Invite Event Schedule

  • Virginia Challenge Event Schedule

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – After finishing last weekend with two school records and 30 new personal records, the Mountain Hawks look to continue building on their momentum at two more meets this weekend. Some members of the Lehigh men’s track and field team will head to Virginia to compete in the Virginia Challenge while others will stay in Bethlehem to compete at Moravian’s Coach P Invitational.

Leading the way for Lehigh was senior Kyle Burke who continued to add his name to the record books. On Friday, Burke broke his fifth school record of the year, finishing the 1500m with a time of 3:44.57. The senior grabbed his sixth record on Saturday at the Bison Outdoor Classic, finishing the 800m with a time of 1:49.76.

Lehigh’s distance group continued to put up solid times last weekend. In Lewisburg, graduate student Seth Slavin finished the 10k with a new PR of 30:24.48. Slavin is now tenth all-time in Lehigh history.

Juniors Brandtson Duffie and Jacob Martinez also added their names to the Top 10 list last weekend at Bucknell. Duffie finished the 800m with a time of 1:51.70 to become seventh all-time while Martinez finished the 1500m with a time of 3:50.63 to become ninth all-time.

Lehigh’s Gideon Coprivnicar finished seventh at the Bison Outdoor Classic in his decathlon debut. Coprivnicar finished with a score of 5657 to become ninth all-time. The first-year finished with PRs in the 110m hurdles (16.53) and javelin (46.13m).

The Mountain Hawks also competed at Moravian’s Greyhound Invitational last weekend where the throwers put up solid marks. Sophomore Achilles Mouzakis finished first in the hammer throw with a mark of 48.20m and also earned a new personal record in the discus (37.89m).

Five first-year student-athletes finished with new personal records in Bethlehem last Friday. Hunter Rodarmel led the way with his third-place finish in the javelin (51.34m). Fellow first-years Greg Stagliano and Liam Campiglia finished close behind Rodarmel, finishing with respective PRs of 49.90m and 49.01m.

Liam Lovering and Ethan McHugh each finished with two PRs at Moravian’s meet last Friday. Lovering finished with PRs in the shot put (14.79m) and discus (45.28m) while McHugh earned PRs in the shot put (10.98m) and hammer throw (34.19m).

The event schedules for both meets can be found at the top of the page. Live results for the Coach P Invitational can be found Here and live results for the Virginia Classic can be found here.

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