{"id":3503,"date":"2025-02-20T23:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:24:12","slug":"marshall-track-field-ready-for-sun-belt-conference-indoor-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2025\/02\/20\/marshall-track-field-ready-for-sun-belt-conference-indoor-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Track & Field Ready for Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marshall Track & Field Preview
\nBy Ben Anderson<\/a>, FM88 Sports
\nFeb. 20, 2025
\nHUNTINGTON, W. Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014 Marshall Track & Field aims to bring home gold for the third consecutive conference championship meet when it travels to Birmingham, Ala. Monday for the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n

Leading the way for the women\u2019s team entering the meet is graduate senior cross country runner Kylee Mastin, who broke the women\u2019s school 1k record with a time of 9:21.31 at\u00a0the David Henry Valentine Invitational in Boston over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Marshall cross country coach Caleb Bowen said taking Mastin to Boston was to bring her a challenge that she will have to face at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe David Henry Valentine Invitational is literally the biggest and most competitive meet in indoor track,\u201d Bowen said during an interview with FM88 Sports Ben Anderson. \u201cWhen we sat down right before and right after Liberty (Open) we knew that she needed some extra help to go faster and she was not going to get that here just with the teams that were coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was in the fourth out of fifteen heats,\u201d Bowen said. \u201cGreat heat to be in, every one of those girls were really fast and she got pulled along to a really good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading the way for the men\u2019s team is junior sprinter Isaiah Valentine, most recently breaking the men\u2019s indoor 400 meter-dash record at the Marshall Invitational with a time of 47.99.<\/p>\n

Valentine said the team\u2019s previous meets have well prepared them for the competition of the Sun Belt Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team can compete with anybody at this point,\u201d Valentine said during an interview with FM88 Sports Ben Anderson. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen Olympians, we\u2019ve seen pro guys at these meets, and just knowing that we can compete with anybody at this point, and I think our team is ready for conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valentine said that what stands out about the men\u2019s team is its depth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have so much depth,\u201d Valentine said. \u201cWe can bring four to five guys in every side of the event group. It\u2019s awesome to see that we have depth from the one or like sixteen, to two, to eight, its every event on the men\u2019s side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valentine said that the competition level grows every year in the Sun Belt Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is going to be at their best,\u201d Valentine said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s been training all year and unfortunately every year gets faster and faster. So, our team has gotten faster and faster with the recruiting class that the coaches brought in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Herd now aims to win its first team conference title since its 1997 victory in the Men\u2019s Southern Conference indoor championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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