Geared for it's final tune-up and last regular season appearance before the 2022 Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Championship in Rochester, Mich., the Youngstown State track and field program is set to compete at Ashland's Ashland Alumni Open and Saint Francis' Red Flash Open on April 30.

Competition in Ashland, Ohio, will get underway for the Penguins on Saturday, April 30, with flights of the men's and women's long jump, along with the shot put at 10 a.m. The first running events are slated for 11:15 a.m. with heats of the women's 100m hurdles, followed by the men's 110m hurdles.

Acting as the only Penguin entered in the meet, Noah Drudy will compete in the men' javelin throw competition at the Red Flash Open in Loretto, Penn. The event follows both the men's and women's shot put, and the women's javelin that are slated for an 11 a.m. start.

YSU Athletes Competing (Ashland Alumni Open)
Women: Emily Bee (100m hurdles, high jump), Erin Bogard (pole vault), Alayna Cuevas (800m), Maria Dellimuti (5000m), Emma Etzwiler (pole vault), Katlyn Griffie (pole vault), Camryn Kohout (800m), Alicia Lonsinger (200m, 400m), Caylee Mackey (5000m), Julia Magliocca (1500m, 5000m), Molly Radcliffe (shot put), Lauren Sheehan (shot put), Jessica Stever (high jump), Hannah Wagner (5000m), Sydney Walker (pole vault), Mara Wilson (400m hurdles), Emily Wolf (discus)

Men: Jack Aulbach (5000m), Antoine Brown (100m, 200m), William Delbaugh (200m, 400m), Andrew Frank (long jump), Lawrence Gawell (pole vault), Zach Gehm (discus), Zach Gray (discus), Coleson Kertesz (shot put, discus), Dominic Perry (shot put), Brody Rupe (3000m steeplechase)

USTFCCCA Rankings
The men's program is ranked No. 10 with 344.42 points, while the women's team is slated 16th with 127.56 points following the release of week four's Great Lakes regional rankings. The men and women have seen as high as No. 7 and No. 13, respectively, on the season.

Both programs continue to act as the Horizon League's highest-ranked teams in the region.

Conference Standouts
Sean Peterson, Nicole Squatrito and Jakari Lomax were named Nike #HLTF Athlete of the Week for their performances at the Oregon Relays and Jesse Owens Classic on April 22-23, the league office announced on April 26.

With a time of 3:40.33, Peterson set a new YSU program record in the men's 1500m on April 22 at the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field. Peterson's time acts as the Horizon League's fastest mark in the event by an astounding 13 seconds and sits as the 17th-fastest mark on the Div. I East Preliminary Qualifying List and 38th-quickest on the Div. I National Qualifying List.

Clocking a time of 2:10.52, Squatrito etched new YSU program record in the women's 800m on April 23 at the Jesse Owens Classic, uplifting her previous school record time of 2:12.18 set just one week ago on April 16 at the Bison Outdoor Classic.

On his sixth and final jump of Saturday's triple jump event at Ohio State's Jesse Owens Classic on April 23, Lomax leaped to a 15.27m (50' 1¼") mark to post the furthest mark among a talented field and earn the event victory. Lomax's jump sits atop the Horizon League as the conference's best mark and comes in as the 41st-best leap on the Div. I East Preliminary Qualifying List.

Up Next
The Penguins will be back in action next weekend, May 5-7, competing at the 2022 Horizon League Outdoor Championships hosted by Oakland in Rochester, Mich.

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