OREM, Utah – The Utah Valley University men's and women's track & field teams will travel north this weekend to take part at Boise State's Ed Jacoby Invitational.
 
The two-day indoor meet will run Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24-25, at the Jackson's Indoor Track at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa, Idaho. Live results will be available for the meet by visiting SnakeRiverTiming.com. 
 
The Ed Jacoby Invite will get underway on Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. MT with the opening of the women's pentathlon. The field events will then start at 4:30 p.m. MT with the women's weight throw, while the running events will begin on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. MT with the women's distance medley. Action will then begin on Saturday morning with the completion of men's heptathlon as well as the men's high jump and weight throw at 9 a.m. MT. The running events will then get going at 10:30 a.m. MT with the women's 1-mile run and the final event is slated to take place that afternoon at 4:35 p.m. MT (men's 4x400m relay). 
 
In all, a total of 21 schools are scheduled to compete in the meet. Besides the Wolverines and the host Broncos, Hawaii, Nevada, Portland State, San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara, Utah State, Weber State, Alaska Anchorage, College of Idaho, Concordia (Oregon), Eastern Oregon, Northwest Christian, Northwest Nazarene, Oregon Tech, San Francisco State, Southern Idaho, Stanislaus State, Western Washington, and Westmont are all stated to take part in the two-day event. 
 
LAST TIME OUT
UVU will enter the meet on the heels of a couple of strong outings at the BYU Cougar Indoor Invitational and Idaho State's Snake River Open on Jan. 10-11. At Idaho State, sophomore Isaac Manning led the men's team by winning the heptathlon with an impressive tally of 4,839 points. Manning's total was a personal record and the fourth-best score in Wolverine history. He won both the pole vault (5.03m) and the shot put (11.70m) during the heptathlon en route to winning the strenuous event. Fellow sophomore Zane Farrer had one of the strongest outings for the men's squad at BYU by taking third in the men's 60m hurdles with a time of 8.19 seconds. His blazing time moved him into third place in the UVU record books in the event. 
 
Both Manning and Farrer earned WAC Track & Field Athlete of the Week honors following their outstanding respective performances at ISU and BYU.    
 
On the women's side, junior Lexi MacArthur took home the gold in the women's 800m run by winning the event with a solid time of 2:22.87. Fellow junior Emily Jones also ran well by leading UVU in the 3000m run with a third-place finish (10:22.30), while sophomore Berkley Berrett paced the team in the women's pole vault at Idaho State by taking fourth after clearing 3.40m. The mark was a new personal record for Berrett as well as moved her into fifth-place in the UVU record books in the event.
 
 
WAC LEADERS
In the WAC this season, sophomore Seth Dabb (400m, 49.20), junior Kale Sharp (1-mile run (4:16.63), senior Kevin Lynch (3000m, 8:18.74), sophomore Taylor Viertel (3000m, 10:02.14), senior Albert MacArthur (triple jump, 14.99m), freshman Carly Koehler (pentathlon, 2613), and the sophomore Manning in both pole vault (5.03m) and heptathlon (4839) all currently lead the conference in their respective events.  
 
UP NEXT FOR UVU
Following this weekend's meet, the Wolverines will next head to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take part at the Air Force Team Challenge on Friday, Feb. 7. The Weber State Invitational will then follow on Feb. 13-14 in Ogden.