{"id":2849,"date":"2019-02-19T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:06:07","slug":"alex-wilson-invitational-track-and-field-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2019\/02\/19\/alex-wilson-invitational-track-and-field-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wilson Invitational Track and Field Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photo courtesy of butlersports.com\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 16, the Butler men\u2019s and women\u2019s Track and Field teams traveled north to South Bend to take part in the Alex Wilson Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Allie Vogeler highlighted the Bulldogs\u2019 weekend with a first-place finish in the 200 meters. Vogeler also set a school record by finishing with a time of 24.96, breaking the old record of 25.56.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s mile, freshman Clark Otte won his section and finished in ninth overall with a time of 4:16.59. In the women\u2019s mile, Mia Beckham ran a personal best 5:00.43 which was good for second place in her section and 13<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>overall.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s 400 meters, Jacob Uhl finished second in his section with a time of 48.87 which placed him ninth overall. His teammate Connor Fuller finished 18<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>overall with a personal best time of 50.77.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s 800 meters, Johnny Leverenz finished sixth overall, nearly beating his own Butler school record. His teammates Chandler McGaha and Eric Baugh also finished 19<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>and 20<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>in the 800, respectively. For the women, Camille Hines and Angelina Ellis both had strong performances. Hines finished 16<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>overall and Ellis set a personal best of 2:13.38 to finish 20<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Bowers was the lone Bulldog competing in the 200 meters, where he took ninth place with a time of 23.23.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the Bulldogs is the 2019 BIG EAST Indoor Championships being held Feb. 22 and 23 in Geneva, Ohio.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of butlersports.com\u00a0 On Feb. 16, the Butler men\u2019s and women\u2019s Track and Field teams traveled north to South Bend to take part in the Alex Wilson Invitational. Senior Allie Vogeler highlighted the Bulldogs\u2019 weekend with a first-place finish in the 200 meters. Vogeler also set a school record by finishing with a time [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195444,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[380339,11891,380340],"tags":[380330],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-track-and-field","category-sports","category-womens-track-and-field","tag-spring-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}