Milwaukee Stays Local This Weekend At WLC Invite
Saturday, March 31 • 10:30 a.m. • Wauwatosa, Wis. • 2007 Outdoor Top Times/Individual Finishes MILWAUKEE, Wis. (March 28, 2007) - Coming off a fifth-place showing at last weekend's season-opening Southern Illinois Invitational, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's track and field team returns to action at the Wisconsin Lutheran Invitational Saturday in nearby Wauwatosa. The meet gets underway at WLC's Raabe Stadium at 10:30 a.m. Milwaukee won the first-ever Wisconsin Lutheran Invitational last season, scoring 267 points for a 111-point cushion over second place MSOE (156 points). Seven different Panthers won events and the team won both relay events for the victory. Nick Gretz won two events, while Adam Schleis and Trentin Edwards won two events apiece and formed half of the winning 4x100m relay. The Panthers are coming off a successful season-opener last weekend in Carbondale, Ill. They took fifth place in the 12-team field, while senior Nick Wichert broke his own school record in the hammer throw and Edwards won two events. Wichert threw 189-2 in the first event of the meet to qualify for the NCAA Regionals and eclipse the school record of 184-0 he set in the event as a junior in 2005. On the day, he placed second. Possibly overshadowed by Wichert's accomplishment was Edwards, who got his season off to the best start he could. The Milwaukee native won both of his events, pacing the field in both the 100m and 200m events. The electric start to the outdoor season comes on the heels of an indoor campaign that saw him win the league 200m championship. Edwards was also on the Panthers' 4x100m relay that set a school record of its own. Edwards, Schleis, sophomore Patrick Casey and freshman Tyler Bucholz combined to run a time of 41.76 and edge the previous mark of 41.80. Bucholz was one of two more Milwaukee athletes to get the outdoor campaign off to somewhat of a historic start. He ran a time of 48.37 in the 400m, the third-best time in school history, while junior Darren Cole recorded the longest triple jump of his career, indoors or outdoors, by leaping 49-0 1/4. That jump propelled Cole to second in school history. This weekend's Wisconsin Lutheran Invitational is the first in three events Milwaukee will stay in the state of Wisconsin, despite no home meets on the schedule. April 13-14, the Panthers will head across town for the Marquette Invitational, before closing the regular season out at the Wisconsin Twilight, May 5, in Madison.
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