{"id":175310,"date":"2026-02-12T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:22:08","slug":"oakland-set-for-split-weekend-at-gvsu-and-youngstown-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175310\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Set for Split Weekend at GVSU and Youngstown State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ROCHESTER, Mich. \u2014 The Oakland men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track and field teams are prepping for a split weekend in their second-to-last weekend of the indoor season at Grand Valley&#8217;s Big Meet and Youngstown State&#8217;s Last Chance Meet this Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Last weekend, the Golden Grizzlies wrapped up a successful meet at the Michigan Invitational in Ann Arbor. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/austin-graham\/12564\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12564\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Graham<\/a> led the way in the men&#8217;s 60-meter hurdles, qualifying for the final with an 8.55 in prelims before placing eighth overall in 8.76. On the women&#8217;s side, <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/kylei-anderson\/12599\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12599\" target=\"_blank\">Kylei Anderson<\/a> advanced out of the 60-meter hurdles prelims with an 8.63 before finishing seventh in the final (9.11).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oakland&#8217;s women were well represented in the mile as <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/eliza-bush\/12655\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12655\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Bush<\/a> led the group with a fifth-place finish in 4:54.83 for the Oakland program record in the women&#8217;s indoor mile. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/courtney-bovair\/12729\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12729\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Bovair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/maggie-hall\/12660\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12660\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Hall<\/a> each set personal bests, running 5:04.73 and 5:17.98, respectively, while <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/mackenzie-lemke\/12574\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12574\" target=\"_blank\">Mackenzie Lemke<\/a> added a PR of her own at 5:18.40.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the men&#8217;s 3,000 meters, <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/carter-mccalister\/12578\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12578\" target=\"_blank\">Carter McCalister<\/a> placed seventh with a time of 8:31.95, followed closely by <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/collin-farmer\/12611\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12611\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Farmer<\/a>, who finished 10th in 8:58.55.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vivenu.com\/event\/gvsu-big-meet-friday-ecoxyh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a>, livestreaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flotrack.org\/events\/14688593-2026-gvsu-big-meet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FloTrack<\/a>, and live timing for the GVSU Big Meet can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/live.fstiming.com\/meets\/61297\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. Live timing for YSU&#8217;s Last Chance Meet is available <a href=\"https:\/\/live.deltatiming.com\/meets\/61058\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Follow Oakland Cross Country\/Track and Field: For complete information on Oakland Cross Country\/Track and Field teams, follow the team on X at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OaklandTrackXC\" rel=\"nofollow\">@OaklandTrackXC<\/a>. The team is also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oaklandtrackxc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ROCHESTER, Mich. \u2014 The Oakland men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track and field teams are prepping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-175310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}