Meet Notes / Heat Sheets
LINCOLN, Neb. - The Boilermakers are set for the 2016 Big Ten Outdoor Championships hosted by the University of Nebraska. The three-day meet is set to begin Friday at noon CT and runs through Sunday evening. All action will take place at Ed Weir Stadium.
Friday's action begins with the decathlon, where Tim Deal and Matthew Garrison will start with the 100-meter dash. The duo will also compete in the decathlon's long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m dash on the opening day of the meet.
Chukwuebuka Enekwechi will compete in the first scored event of the meet, as he will look to defend for a second time his hammer throw title. The fifth-year senior has won the conference title in the event two-straight years and this year ranks second in the league in the event. The men's hammer throw is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
Enekwechi has scored 91 career points and indoor and outdoor Big Ten Championships. The 11-time All-American has three Big Ten gold medals, four silvers and three bronzes. He has won 16 Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week awards, including this week's honor and two of the last three. His 16 total honors are a conference record. The defending Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year and Field Athlete of the Championships, indoors and out, will also compete in the shot put Sunday, where he has the best mark in the Big Ten this year.
Matthew McClintock will also have an opportunity to score Friday. The senior competes in the 10,000-meter run at 7:30 p.m., an event he finished runner-up in at last year's conference championships. McClintock was also a first team All-American in the 10k after finishing seventh in the country at last year's NCAA Championships. He will then look to defend his 5,000-meter Big Ten title from last season Sunday afternoon.
Savannah Carson has had an outstanding spring, setting the school record in the 100-meter dash, jumping the second-best wind legal mark in the long jump in program history and running the anchor leg of the school record 4x100m relay. She will compete in all three events. Carson is tied for the top 100m dash time in the conference this season and will look to give the Boilermakers back-to-back conference titles in the event for the first time in program history. Devynne Charlton won the event last year, but will miss this year's meet with an injury. She is redshirting the outdoor season.
Symone Black will also work on a title defense, as the sophomore will look to repeat in the 400m hurdles. The sophomore broke the school record at last year's meet en route to a gold medal. Black will also have the 4x400m relays on her plate for the weekend, an event that has already earned her first and second team All-America honors.
Janae' Moffitt enters her first outdoor conference meet, but has already found the top step of the podium at Big Tens. Moffitt, the indoor Big Ten Freshman of the Year, won the high jump at the indoor conference meet. She is tied for the second-best clearance of the outdoor season among Big Ten jumpers.
Jessica Harter wraps up her Big Ten career with the pole vault Sunday at 1 p.m. Harter took the silver medal indoors this season and was the bronze medalist at the outdoor Big Ten Championships in 2014. Last week, she broke the school record with a clearance of 4.21m (13-9.75).
The three-day meet is jam-packed with action for the Boilermakers and will also include an attempted title defense by the women's 4x100m relay team, an attempt at the season-sweep of the women's 4x400m relay after the team won indoor Big Tens and Anaquan Peterson looking to capitalize on his big season in the triple jump, among several exciting events.
Live results will be available each day of the meet and fans can follow the action on Twitter @PurdueTrackXC. Updates and notes will be posted throughout the day, before a full recap is posted to PurdueSports.com at the conclusion of all three days.