2019 Music City Challenge
Date	Fri., Feb. 9-Sat., Feb. 10
Location	Nashville, Tenn. | Multipurpose Facility
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National Rankings	Top-25 Men | Top-25 Women | Men's Individual | Women's Individual
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Indiana State Men's and Women's Track & Field teams will travel to Tennessee this Friday and Saturday to compete at the Music City Challenge hosted by Vanderbilt.
 
This will be the second consecutive season that the Sycamores have competed at the Music City Challenge and will once again feature some of the best student-athletes from around the nation.
 
Fresh off of his Missouri Valley Conference Track Athlete of the Week honor, distance star Akis Medrano will take his talents to the 3000-meter run at Vanderbilt. Last weekend at the Meyo Invite he ran one of the best races of his life in the men's 5K. The Boswell, Ind. native earned the Meyo Invitational 5K championship by clocking a lifetime-best and second-best time in Indiana State history of 14:19.88 after surging to hold off Notre Dame's Kevin Salvano. Medrano owns the top time in the Valley and is 25th nationally.
 
Also making an appearance in the record books and national rankings last weekend was freshman hurdles Matthew Lewis-Banks. Lewis-Banks walked away with the Meyo Invitational 60-meter hurdles title after hurdling to the ninth-fastest time in school history of 7.93. Lewis-Banks now owns the best time in the Missouri Valley Conference and is 47th in the NCAA. This Saturday he will go for his sixth consecutive victory in the 60-meter hurdles.
 
On the women's side of the track, Ayanna Morgan will look to improve upon her personal-best and second-fastest time in school history of 8.39 in the 60-meter hurdles from the Meyo Invitational. The senior placed second in the event, but walked away with the fastest time in the MVC and the 47th-best time in the country. This weekend, Morgan will compete in the 200-meter dash and long jump on Friday and the 60-meter hurdles on Saturday.
 
Redshirt senior Brooke Moore will test the waters in the 3000-meter run at the Music City Challenge on Saturday. The Elkhart, Ind. native battled in the invitational section of the women's mile run at the Meyo Invitational, placing seventh with a time of 4:44.15, a season-best performance and just one second away from her school-record. Her time is the top time in the MVC and falls just outside of the NCAA top-50 at 53rd.
 
The blue and white will boast two of the top throwers in the nation at Vanderbilt, as Cassaundra Roper and Erin Reese will compete in the weight throw on Friday and the shot put on Saturday. Last weekend at Notre Dame, Roper led the Trees by placing fourth in the shot put with a throw of 14.98m (49-01.75). Her mark of 15.66m (51-04.50) from the Coughlan-Malloy Cup leads the conference and is 36th in the nation, while her toss of 19.45 (63-09.75) in the weight throw from the John Gartland Invite is third in the Valley and 52nd nationally. Reese owns the sixth-best throw in the country in the weight throw of 21.81m (71-06.75) and it the best in the MVC.
 
Events in Nashville will begin 4:30 p.m. ET with the field events and the track events will start at 8 p.m. ET. On Saturday events on the track will get started at 11 a.m. ET, while action in the field will begin at 11:30 a.m. ET.
 
For the latest information on the Sycamore Track & Field teams, make sure to check out GoSycamores.com. You can also find the team on social media including Facebook and Twitter.