WLANUT, Calif. \u2014 Elizabeth Bailey kicked off the Commodores\u2019 West Coast swing by competing in javelin Thursday evening, the first of two entries at two meets this week.<\/p>\n
The graduate student, chasing her own school record of 51.38 meters set earlier this season at the Hampton Inn River City Relays, got off to a good start in the event, sitting in sixth place after a 44.87-meter throw. She improved on her second attempt, adding nearly a meter to her distance, recording 45.55 meters. Bailey would get passed as the third round of throws came to an end and would settle for 11th.<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt continues its California competition with events at the Bryan Clay Invitational beginning Friday at 6:17 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
Fans can follow Vanderbilt track and field at @VandyXCTrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WLANUT, Calif. \u2014 Elizabeth Bailey kicked off the Commodores\u2019 West Coast swing by competing in javelin Thursday evening,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,117970,117973,117972,117971,117974,4583,117982,117979,117980,117981,117975,8207,117968,13708,117969,117978,117977,117976,117983],"class_list":{"0":"post-271910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-commodores","12":"tag-commodores-baseball","13":"tag-commodores-basketball","14":"tag-commodores-football","15":"tag-commodores-soccer","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-sport-category-featured-category","18":"tag-vanderbilt-athletics","19":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores-baseball-roster","20":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football-roster","21":"tag-vanderbilt-stadium","22":"tag-vanderbilt-university","23":"tag-vanderbilt-university-athletics","24":"tag-vanderbilt-commodores","25":"tag-vuc","26":"tag-vuc-baseball","27":"tag-vuc-basketball","28":"tag-vuc-football","29":"tag-women-s-track-and-field"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271910","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=271910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}