Hilltoppers Journey For Music City Challenge

Meet competitors opens with the lads’s javelin throw at 10 a.m. CT with the ladies’s javelin throw to observe. The full schedule of occasions for the meet may be seen and downloaded HERE.

WHO’S COMPETING: Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Arkansas State, Austin Peay, Belmont, Evansville, Indiana State, Jacksonville State, Life, Lipscomb, Maryville, MTSU, Murray State, Southern Indiana, Tennessee, UT Martin, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, Troy, host Vanderbilt, Vincennes and Xavier

FOLLOW LIVE: Live outcomes from the meet will probably be supplied by the hosts HERE.

PARKING: Free parking is offered within the twenty fifth Ave. storage on occasion days solely by way of the Highland Avenue entrance. On Friday earlier than 5 p.m., spectators ought to park on flooring 8-10 in any non-reserved areas. Parking will even be free within the West Garage on flooring three and above on each Friday and Saturday. 

ABOUT THE TOPS

WKU enters the meet in Nashville coming off three podium finishes at LSU Alumni Gold final weekend. Natalie Papes took second place within the girls’s pole vault, whereas Jackson Gray and Sam Crenshaw earned second and third place respectively within the males’s pole vault. 

WKU competed in its third weekend of outside competitors on the Gibson Invitational hosted by Indiana State. A second-place end by Parker Smith within the males’s 800-meter run highlighted the meet for the Hilltoppers.

WKU competed on the Tennessee Invite hosted by the University of Tennessee on April 10-11. Four Hilltoppers recorded podium finishes on the meet, headlined by a first-place end by Jayla Gilbert within the girls’s shot put and third-place finishes by Kameron Horton within the males’s 100-meter sprint and Trevor Hudnall within the males’s 800-meter run.

Gilbert recorded a distance of 14.96m to safe a victory within the girls’s shot put, whereas Horton clocked a ten.38 end within the males’s 100-meter sprint to safe third place and mark a second consecutive meet inserting in an occasion. Hudnall completed with a brand new personal-best time of 1:49.65 within the males’s 800-meter run to safe a third-place end for WKU. 

Carolina Bannach added a second-place end within the girls’s pole vault open with a mark of three.82m to spherical out the Hilltoppers’ top-three finishers for the weekend.

The Hilltoppers posted robust showings on the WashU Distance Carnival and Jim Vargo Invitational to open 2026 outside competitors. Kinley Kunkel headlined the gap meet for the Tops, inserting second within the 5000-meter run with a time of 16:20.19. 

Van Thrasher led the Tops’ effort on the Jim Vargo Invitational, sweeping the hurdles and excessive soar. Thrasher posted a first-place ending time of 14.38 seconds for the 110-meter hurdles earlier than clearing 1.92 meters (6 ft, 3.5 inches) to take first within the excessive soar.

Myles Gentry added one other win on the monitor on the Jim Vargo Invitational, capturing first within the 100-meter sprint with a time of 10.89 seconds. WKU positioned a complete of 4 athletes inside the highest seven of the lads’s 100-meter sprint, together with Brunel Desinor (10.98) in fourth, Zachariah Taylor (11.01) in sixth and Sterling Weldon (11.07) in seventh.

Devon Rogers claimed first within the males’s javelin throw with a distance of 61.93 meters, whereas Hunter Coslow led a standout effort within the hammer throw, ending first with a mark of fifty.34 meters (165-2). Connor Owens adopted with a runner-up end. Coslow additionally posted a third-place end within the shot put (15.80m) and a fourth-place end within the discus (44.41m).

Horton turned in a runner-up end within the 400 meters (49.36) and Sam Crenshaw completed second within the pole vault (4.86m). The males’s 4×400 relay workforce additionally completed in third place with a time of three:27.59.

Leland Taylor positioned third within the males’s 200-meter sprint at 21.85 and Joey Raybourne added one other second-place effort within the 800 meters with a time of 1:56.53.

The girls’s facet was highlighted by a win from Tatum McGlynn within the javelin with a throw of 45.20 meters and a first-place end for Gianna Huerta within the girls’s 100-meter hurdles. WKU additionally picked up a victory within the girls’s 4×100-meter relay, ending in 47.18 seconds.

Gilbert charted a second-place end within the shot put (14.02m) and Jas Hampton completed with a fourth-place end within the 100-meter sprint (12.28). Huerta additionally posted a top-five end within the 400-meter sprint (58.22) and Hannah Glassmeyer positioned fourth within the 800 meters (2:19.31).

FOLLOW THE TOPS: For extra data on WKU Track and Field, observe the workforce on social media @WKUXCTF.