After a rain delayed beginning of the running portion of the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Friday, Wesleyan sprinter Kevoy Douglas (pictured) turned in a time of 21.527 in the preliminary heat of the 200 meter dash.

In a tight race, Douglas missed out on the finals cut by .012 of a second. The top eight times out of the three heats qualified for Saturday's finals with Douglas finishing in tenth. However, Douglas was separated from seventh place by only .014 of ... [read more]

With a fifth place finish in the decathlon at the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Friday, Wesleyan senior Ricky Kump (pictured) became the newest member of the Bobcat All-American club.

Kump entered the Friday in third place with a score of 3,741 points after five events. The day began with the 110 meter hurdles in which Kump placed seventh to push him into second place overall.

After a 12th place finish in the discus at 31.20 meters and a tenth place fini... [read more]

Senior Wesleyan men's track star Ricky Kump (picured) turned in a strong showing during day one of the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Charlotte, NC on Thursday. Kump, who was one of 12 national qualifiers in the decathlon, sits in third place with 3,741 points after five events. He is just seven points off of second place.

Kump began the day with a second place finish in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.11 seconds. After ninth place finishes in the long jump ... [read more]

Wesleyan track and field fans can follow men's stand-outs Kevoy Douglas and Ricky Kump live as they compete at the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships in Charlotte, NC.

Kump (pictured right) kicks off his pursuit of a national title in the decathlon at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 27.

Douglas, meanwhile, is scheduled to compete in the 200 meter dash preliminaries at 6:15 p.m. on Friday, May 28.

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With the release of the NCAA qualifiers on Wednesday, Wesleyan senior track stars Ricky Kump (pictured top) and Kevoy Douglas (pictured below) will officially become the first Bobcat track and field athletes to participate in the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships since Tyler Blatchley in 2008.

Kump qualified in the decathlon with 6,569 points while Douglas earned a spot in the 200 meter dash with a time of 21.26. Both runners will compete in Charlotte... [read more]

The Wesleyan men's and women's track and field teams both dropped in this weeks Atlantic Region rankings. The men's team dropped two spots to number nine while the women fell one spot to number ten.

The Bobcat track and field team's finished their 2010 outdoor campaign on May 1 by running away with dominating victories at the WVIAC Championship Meet.

Wesleyan will now await the announcement of the NCAA Championship qualifiers on May 15.... [read more]

After posting dominating victories at the WVIAC Championships in Wheeling, the men's and women's track and field teams made a leap into the Atlantic Regional polls. The men jumped to seventh in the latest rankings while the women entered the poll at number nine.

Wesleyan is the only the WVIAC school ranked in either poll. The women made the largest jump in the nation, moving up from number 16 in the previous rankings.

The men, meanwhile, tied for the nation's l... [read more]

The Wesleyan men's and women's track and field teams continued their WVIAC dominance with a clean sweep of the conference championships on Saturday at Wheeling. The titles gave the women's team their eigth consecutive championship and 18 of the past 20 and the men's team their second in a row and fifth of the past seven.

The men tallied a total of 238 points which easily outpaced second place Seton Hill's 136. The women, meanwhile, recorded 216 points which placed them w... [read more]

The 2010 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) Track & Field portion of the Championships will be held April 30-May 1 at Wheeling Jesuit.

The multi-event portion of the meet concluded last weekend as Seton Hill’s Erin Beattie won the 13-woman field and defended her crown in the heptathlon with a WVIAC record 4271 points. In addition the heptathlon, saw three individual event records fall over the two day competition.

Wesleyan's Cuylor Edge... [read more]

West Virginia Wesleyan's Cuylor Edgell claimed the WVIAC men's decathlon title in record fashion, while Seton Hill's Erin Beattie defended her title to cap off the multi-event portion of the league meet.

Edgell's NCAA provisional decathlon mark of 6313 points bettered former Concord star Dustin Greenwood's mark of 6298 for the conference record.

Beattie's tally of 4271 points also established a new meet heptathlon record, erasing the old mark of 4188 establi... [read more]

The 2010 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s (WVIAC) Track & Field Championships get underway Saturday at Glenville State College with the men’s decathlon and women’s heptathlon on April 24-25.

Nine men and thirteen women will test there skills over the two day competition as they look to better last year’s defending champions Ricky Kump (pictured) of West Virginia Wesleyan and Erin Beattie of Seton Hill.

The men will compete in ten events duri... [read more]

The latest WVIAC Power Rankings have been released and the West Virginia Wesleyan women remain in the top spot while the men remain in second.

Wesleyan's Kenvoy Douglas was named this week's WVIAC Male Runner of the Week

Women
Track Athletes of the Week
Sarah Campanelli, Wheeling Jesuit – ran a school record and NCAA Provisional time of 4:36.26 in the 1500m at Princeton Friday Night races.

Field Athlete of the Week ... [read more]

The Wesleyan men's and women's track teams successfully defended their home turf on Friday, running away with a clean sweep of the Wendy's Bobcat Invitational. The annual home meet featured seven schools; West Virginia Wesleyan, Glenville State, Concord, Pitt-Johnstown, West Virginia State, Alderson-Broaddus and Mountain State.

The men earned the victory with 252 total points compared to 124 for second place Concord. The women, meanwhile, finished with 287 while Glenvill... [read more]

Here is the schedule for today's Wendy's Bobcat Invitational:

Field Events
1:00 PM: Javelin (W then M), Hammer (W then M)
2:30 PM: Pole Vault (M), Discus (M), Long Jump (W), Shot Put (W)
3:30 PM: Pole Vault (W), Discus (W), Long Jump (M), Shot Put (M)
4:30 PM: High Jump (W then M)
5:45: Triple Jump (W then M)

Running Events
2:30 PM: 10,000 (Co-Ed)
3:30 PM: 100m (Tr... [read more]

With the WVIAC Championship meet just right around the corner, the Wesleyan men’s and women’s track and field teams will begin the fine tuning process as they take to the track this Friday to host the Wendy’s West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcat Invitational. This year’s invitational will be loaded as always, with seven teams from around the conference and state embarking on the Wesleyan campus to partake in the festivities.

In addition to Wesleyan, this year’s entrants include ... [read more]