Legends/Distance Carnival Meet Central
March 30, 2016 | Track & Field
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA track and field team will host its busiest weekend of the season as the Legends Invitational and the Legends Distance Carnival will be held on the oval inside Drake Stadium. The Legends Distance Carnival will be held on Friday, April 1 while the Legends Invitational is a two-day meet that will start on Friday and conclude on Saturday, April 2.
TICKETS
Tickets are available at the UCLA Box Office. $8 for adults and $5 for students and youth.
Participating Teams
Distance Carnival: Kansas State, Cornell, UC Irvine, UC Davis, CS Fullerton, Nevada (w), UCLA, Gonzaga, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly-SLO and LMU.
Legends Invitational: Kansas State, Cornell, UC Irvine, UC Davis, CS Fullerton, Nevada (w), Pepperdine, Cal Poly SLO, Minnesota (w), Gonzaga, UC Santa Barbara, Loyola Marymount, and UCLA.
UCLA is coming off an impressive showing in its opening outdoor meet. The Bruins ran past Arizona and Washington State at the Jim Bush Collegiate last week.
UCLA enters this weekend with 13 marks in the top 25 in the country. Senior Kylie Price exploded back onto the scene as she leads the country in the long jump with a leap of 21-4.75. She also ran the anchor leg on the 4x100m relay that clocked the fastest time at UCLA since 2004 and that ranks fifth in the country. Her 100m time of 11.43 is 14th in the nation.
Making her UCLA outdoor collegiate debut, Stamatia Scarvelis launched the seventh farthest throw in the hammer in school history on her first attempt as she finished the meet with a mark of 195-8. That throw currently ranks 20th in the nation. She also won the discus and was second in the shot put.
Of the 13 marks that rank in the top 25, four are in the top 10 and 12 are in the top 20. On top of Price in the long jump and the 4x100m relay, sophomore Braheme Days is third in the shot put with a throw of 63-10.50 while junior Torie Owers is seventh in the women's shot put at 54-7.50.
UCLA will remain at home next weekend as Drake Stadium will be the host site of the annual Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational. The meet is scheduled for Saturday, April 9.