The Eastern men’s and women’s track and field team will head to the Notre Dame Meyo Invite this weekend in South Bend, Ind.

The Panthers are coming off another Indiana based competition, the Indiana Relays and Indiana University-Bloomington, in which the team saw red-shirt senior Zye Boey, junior Erika Ramos and red-shirt junior Sean Wiggan all take home first place finishes.

Boey will enter the weekend as the reigning two-week Ohio Valley Conference Male Track Athlete of the Week, as well as nationally ranked in the men’s 60-meter and 200-meter dash. Boey is No. 18 in the 60-meter dash and No. 7 in the 200-meter dash.

Ramos and Wiggan are each coming off weekends in which they both set Eastern records in their respective events.

They will each try and duplicate their performances again this weekend.

Red-shirt sophomore pole vaulter Mick Viken, who has fallen out of the top twenty five national rankings, will go up against Notre Dame senior Kevin Schipper, who is ranked No. 14 in the nation.

Since the first meet of the season, the Early Bird, which the Panthers hosted, Viken has struggled to get back to his recent success.

Viken jumped his season-best at the Early Bird, 17-feet, and has declined since. He vaulted 16-feet, 7.25-inches at the following week’s John Craft Invite, and then 15-feet, 11-inches at last week’s Indiana Relays.

On the women’s side, red-shirt sophomore Jade Riebold remains nationally ranked, entering this weekend as the No. 25 pole vaulter in the country. Riebold has already broken the Eastern record twice in her first year as a Panther.

The Panthers’ men’s 400-meter dash runners will have their hands full with the host Irish runners. Men’s 400-meter dash runners Patrick Feeney and Chris Giesting are each ranked No. 17 and 18 in the nation, respectively. Eastern 400-meter dash runners include freshman Stefan Gorol, sophomore Cody Boarman and red-shirt junior Joe Augustine.

This will be the 25th year of the Notre Dame Meyo Invite. At last year’s competition, Boey and red-shirt senior Megan Gingerich each set school records and recorded several top ten finishes. Notre Dame head coach Joe Piane said the meet is always an exciting one.

“It’s a very good meet for the fans,” he said, in a press release. “They will see some great competitors no matter what event they pick. We have Olympians competing and we have races with only Big East runners in it. It should be an extremely fun meet for the fans in attendance.”

The two day meet is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Friday in South Bend, Ind., with the women’s long jump being the first event.

The Panthers will be at Grand Valley State on Feb. 10-11, following this event.

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].