DETROIT (2/26/2020) – The University of Detroit Mercy women's track and field team heads to the campus of Youngstown State to participate among the conference's best athletes in the 2020 Horizon League Indoor Track and Field Championship meet at the Watson and Tressel Training Site (WATTS) from Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 29-March 1.
 
Senior sprinter Kyri Jackson is having a banner year for the red, white and blue this season. Last Friday at the Silverston Invitational, her first-place time of 24.92 seconds in the 200-meter dash set a new indoor record – a tenth of a second shy of Shireese Statin's 2000 all-time record of 24.82. She would finish with top-five finishes in the 60m and triple jump.
 
Freshman Micah Carey placed second in the triple jump with a score of 10.98m. The women's 4x400 meter relay team also earned a third-place finish with a time of 4:08.33.

The Titans placed ninth in last year's Horizon League Indoor Track and Field Championships. Detroit Mercy is four-time champions in the indoor meet (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002) and has finished runner-up five other times (1992, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014) and most recently in 2014. The four indoor track and field championships are the third-most in Horizon League history along with Notre Dame.

Youngstown State won both the men's and women's indoor championships in the Horizon League last year.
 
Events begin at 9 a.m. each day from YSU and will be available to stream on ESPN3.com.