Falcons Back Home For Tom Wright Classic Friday

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Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green track and field team will compete at home for the final time during the indoor season as the Falcons host the Tom Wright Classic Friday night at Perry Field House. Field events are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. with running events at 6 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for non-BGSU students with ID. BGSU students are admitted free of charge. Doors open at 4 p.m.

FOLLOWING THE FALCONS
Fans can follow the BGSU indoor track and field team all year long through a variety of ways. The official website of BGSU Athletics, BGSUFalcons.com, has preview and postgame stories, full statistics, the schedule, roster, live stats links and much more. On social media, fans are encouraged to follow @BGAthletics on twitter and/or BGSU track and field athletic communications contact Jason Knavel via @jknavel. Follow the team on Facebook by searching for Bowling Green Track.

LAST TIME OUT
BGSU competed in the Harvey-Simmons Invitational, hosted by the University of Michigan, Saturday. Brooke Pleger remained undefeated in the weight throw, winning the event at the unscored meet with a personal best throw of 61-feet-10.25. Allison Weimer ran a strong race in the 400, finishing third, and Kayla Velasquez was fourth in the weight throw.

PERSONAL BESTS
In Bowling Green's season-opening meet, the Falcons set or tied 23 personal records at the Eagle Holiday Meet. Following that meet, the team set or tied 21 personal bests in the Bowling Green Opener this past weekend. Last weekend, the team added another 14 personal bests at the Harvey-Simmons Invitational.

MAC RANKINGS
Listed below are any BGSU student-athletes ranked in the top 20 in the MAC in an event:

200 – 15. Allorian Horne 25.32, 19. Taylor Rambo 25.58
400 – 10. Brittany Sinclair 57.49, 15. Allison Weimer 57.75
3000 – 20. Andrea Alt 10:26.17
1600 relay – 7. BGSU 3:53.06
High jump – 17. Krystin Reiser 5-3
Long jump – 19. Dana Gates 17-4.75
Triple jump – 20. Dana Gates 33-9.25
Weight throw – 4. Brooke Pleger 61-10.25, 17. Kayla Velasquez 51-11.25, 18. Nicolette Johnson 51-7.75

NATIONAL RANKINGS
Listed below are any BGSU student-athletes ranked among the top 100 in NCAA Division I in any event:

Weight throw – 32. Brooke Pleger 61-10.25

YOUTH MOVEMENT
Currently, BGSU is ranked in the top 20 in the MAC in an individual event 11 times. Those 11 student-athletes represent three freshmen (or redshirt freshmen), four sophomores (or redshirt sophomores), three juniors and only one senior.

PLEGER REMAINS UNBEATEN
Sophomore Brook Pleger continues to obliterate her personal best and remains unbeaten in the weight throw this year. She opened the indoor season by setting her career best with a toss of 59-feet-8.25 to win the Eagles Holiday Meet, hosted by Eastern Michigan. In that meet, she met the automatic qualifying mark for the Indoor MAC Championships. She followed that up by winning the Bowling Green Opener with a throw of 61-7 and then posted a distance of 61-10.25 to win the Harvey-Simmons Invitational.

SINCLAIR MAKES A SPLASH
After spending two years at Duquesne and placing 16th in the 400 in the Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships, Brittany Sinclair transferred to Bowling Green. Competing in Brown and Orange for the first time, Sinclair posted a time of 57.49 in the 400 at the Bowling Green Opener, ranking in the top 10 in the MAC.

GATES LEAPS TO SUCCESS
Dana Gates is another transfer making an immediate impact at Bowling Green. After spending two years at Barton Community College and placing second in the long jump at the 2012 NJCAA Indoor National Championships, she has gotten off to a strong start in her BGSU career. Gates is the only BGSU student-athlete to rank in the top 20 in the MAC in multiple events, ranking 19^th in the long jump and 20^th in the triple jump. Her best long jump so far at BGSU is 17-feet-4.75, almost a foot shy of her leap of 18-4 at the NJCAA Indoor National Championships a year ago.

MOVING FORWARD
While sophomore Krystin Reiser has not yet qualified for the MAC Indoor Championships in the long jump, she has set a new personal best in each of the team's first three meets. She opened with a leap of 15-feet-5.5, improved to 15-7.5 and jumped 15-9 this past weekend at the Harvey-Simmons Invitational.

TAYLOR MAKING STRIDES
True freshman Demetra Taylor continues to push her time in the 60 hurdles to new levels. In her first collegiate meet, she ran the event in 9.19 seconds and then improved to 9.15 in the BGSU Opener prelims. She followed that up with a time of 9.13 at the Harvey-Simmons Invitational this past weekend.

NEW FACES
Second-year head coach Lou Snelling announced the addition of two new assistant coach in October. James Gildon works primarily with the team's jump, sprint and hurdle groups, while McKayla Plank assists with both the cross country and track and field programs. Gildon comes to BGSU after serving as an assistant coach at Fort Hayes State University, while Plank was a standout distance runner at Georgia.

ACADEMIC SUCCESS
The BGSU track and field team has been named a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team for each of the past six years. The Falcons had a 3.24 combined grade point average to earn the award in 2012, fifth-best among MAC schools.

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