The BG Falcon track and field team added three more players into the Mid-American Conference championship this past Friday. The three players to qualify were freshman Makenzie Wheat, senior Tiera Perrine and senior Jeanette Pettigrew.
Wheat set a personal best at the shot put event by earning a distance 47’10”. That easily surpassed MAC’s qualifying marks and helped her place seventh out of 13 competitors.
Perrine managed to qualify by throwing 59.11.75 in the weight throw. This passed her previous record by three feet and placed her in eighth place.
Finally, in the 200 meter dash Pettigrew came in first with a time of 25.11 seconds. When her time got converted it became 24.73 seconds, which is five milliseconds ahead of the MAC standard of 24.78.
Junior Natalie Sommerville, along with Pettigrew, managed to come first in their event by winning the 600 with a score of 1:38:45.
As a whole, the Falcons have achieved the MAC qualifiers eight times, a remarkable improvement compared to this past year, when they qualified once.
The Falcons will travel to Akron for the Akron Invitational event Friday and Saturday.
