On the Track
Sprints: Mikele Vickers (Lipscomb)
Vickers will represent Middle Tennessee in the 60 meter dash and the jumps. She'll be in lane five of section two in the 60. She was seventh at the indoor state meet in the 60 last year. Outdoors, she was second in the state for the Division II 100 meter dash.
Mile: Davis Bove (Centennial) & Elias Sandifer (Brentwood Club)
The seeded mile will be one of the best events in the entire meet. Davis Bove is opening his indoor season after an outstanding cross country season. He's the top seed at 4:12, and remains one of the many contenders in AAA this season.
Sandifer comes from the outstanding Brentwood distance pedigree. He was third in the state indoors last season for the mile. His personal best came at the Music City Distance Carnival last year -- 4:17. He may be ready to go sub-4:15 this weekend.
2 Mile: Landri Wilcox (Cookeville), Silas Winders (Henry County) & David Ahlmeyer (Beech)
Landri Wilcox has had an outstanding start to the indoor season at Mondo Elite and KYA. Now she's on to a new distance.
The Cookeville sophomore will make her two mile debut on Saturday after running a mile personal best (5:03) a week ago. This is the first time she's run a two mile indoors. Last year she raced to a 5:09 mile at the Vandy HS Indoor Classic.
Winders and Ahlmeyer are very familiar with one another. Both of them were in San Diego at Foot Locker South to finish up the cross country season. And both were dominant across their respective areas of the mid-state last fall.
If those two push each other, they could both run sub-9 in the two mile. It's a debut race for both of them, and they'll likely look toward the UK Invite as another chance to break that barrier in two weeks. But on this surface with ten sub-9:30 guys in the field, it could happen.
The meet record of 9:16 (Luke Meade, 2015) is definitely in jeopardy.