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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The track & field teams have their biggest test of the young season this weekend. Purdue heads to the University of Kentucky for the Rod McCravy Memorial Invitational, which will feature four top-10 teams on the women's side, including the No. 10 Boilermakers, and three teams in the top 20 on the men's side. The meet begins Friday at 10 a.m. ET with the pentathlon and wraps up Saturday at 4:15 p.m.
Thirty-one women and 27 men are scheduled to make the trip to the meet that will feature athletes from Big Ten foes Illinois, Indiana and Penn State. USC and Texas are also scheduled to compete and both teams are currently ranked in the top 10 for both genders.
The women's 60-meter hurdles will be an event to watch. Purdue's Devynne Charlton, who finished third at the NCAA Championships in the event last year, will be up against Kentucky's Jacklyn Howell, who currently has the No. 9 time in the country, in the fourth heat. Charlton may also have the opportunity to face Illinois' Pedrya Seymour, who currently ranks fourth in the country in the event and was an Olympic 100-meter hurdle finalist, post-collegian and former NCAA Championships qualifier Leah Nugent, who competed for Jamaica in the summer Olympics, 2015 NCAA 60m hurdles champion Kendra Harrison and 2014 NCAA 60m hurdles runner-up Tiffani McReynolds, among others. Purdue's Alexis Pierre-Antoine, Shantyra Delaney and Savannah Roberson will also compete in the event.
The 400m dashes will also be highly competitive. On the women's side Purdue's Symone Black and Brionna Thomas are in the same section and will be up against Nugent and Kori Carter, who was a nine-time All-American during her time at Stanford. Jahneya Mitchell, Pierre- Antoine, Chloe Abott and Myia Dorsey are also in the event. On the men's side, Shawndail McLaren is in the fast heat and will go up against four runners with sub-47-second times, as well as two with sub-46s. Kinard Rolle and Kyle Webb are in the next heat. Rolle currently ranks sixth in the country. Ikpefan will compete in the fourth heat, while Bijay Stephens is in the seventh.
Emma Benner will get a chance to improve on her 3,000-meter PR from last week. She ran a time of 9:40.29 in her first collegiate track meet a week ago, which ranks 16th in the country this season. Jaret Carpenter will be in the men's event a week after running the mile.
The men's and women's 4x400m relays will be tested. Both of Purdue's teams qualified for the NCAA Championships indoors and outdoors last season. They will be up against the best in the country Saturday.
The full schedule of events and entries are at the top of the page.
Live results will be available on PurdueSports.com and Twitter @PurdueTrackXC. Saturday's action will be broadcast live beginning at noon on SEC Network+ online. A link is available at the top of the page.