Several Rhode Islanders set to compete at Penn Relays

This year's Penn Relay Carnival, to be held April 23-25 at the University of Pennsylvania, will feature approximately 22,000 entrants representing more than 60 countries. A number of Rhode Island high school teams will be among those competing at the three-day event, which will include more than 425 races held at an average rate of one race every five minutes during the 33 hours of competition.

Local track afficionado Larry Byrne provides a schedule of when those Ocean Staters will be competing:

Event # Event Ind./Team Time

THURSDAY ~ April 23

4 G-400m Hurdles Emily Barrett, La Salle 10:20 am
7 G-4x800m Relay-LS [heat] La Salle 10:50 am
9 G-4x100m Relay-SS [heat] Hope 11:10 am
39 G-4x400m Relay [section] La Salle begins at 1:25 pm~
43 G-4x400m Relay [section] Hope continues until 4:10 pm

FRIDAY ~ April 24

88 B-4x800m Relay-LS [heat] South Kingstown 9:40 am
160 B-One Mile Championship Mark Feigen, E.G. 6:00 pm
161 B-3000m Championship Nick Ross, E. G. 6:05 pm

SATURDAY ~ April 25

189 B-4x400m Relay [section] South Kingstown begins at 9:10 am~
194 B-4x400m Relay [section] Central and N. Kingstown continues until 11:55 am
[two RI teams in same section]
(246 B-4x800m Relay Championship Final South Kingstown 3:50 pm)
[if qualified from Friday's heats]

NOTES: The 4x100m & 4x800m heats are divided by size...SS = small schools...LS = Large Schools. However, the 4x400m is held in sections w/ all schools, regardless of size, randomly seeded into 36 sections for Girls on Thursday and 34 sections for Boys on Saturday held during a 3-hour span. Each 4x400 section is an event itself, with a plaque to the winning team, and medals to top 3 individuals. Then the eight fastest of all teams, from all sections, qualify for the Championship Final...held later in the meet.

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