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<B>Wildcat track squad comes home for dual meet against U of L, MSU</B><P>
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<FONT SIZE=4><B>By Price Atkinson</B><BR></FONT>Staff Writer
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Home sweet home.<P>
For the next three weekends, the UK men's and women's track and field teams will have home field advantage while competing at Nutter Field House.Tomorrow the gun will sound at 1 p.m. to begin the Rod McCravy Memorial Track meet at Nutter.
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The one-day track meet will feature Appalachian State, Kent State, Louisville, Memphis, Miami (Fla.), and Southeastern Conference foe Mississippi State.
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UK is coming off last weekend's meet at Butler University in Indianapolis where the Cats showcased many individual performances.
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One of those performances was by Passion Richardson in the sprint events for UK.
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At the Butler meet, Richardson finished second in both the 60 and 200 meters.
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With last weekend over, her attention has shifted to her events on Saturday.
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"Now I'm looking forward to the meet this weekend," she said
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.Head coach Don Weber is also looking to this weekend because of the way his team has responded each week since the season began.
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"You just hope to see improvements," he said.
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Weber has seen the improvements after the first two meets and has been encouraged with the results.
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However, he is ready for his younger athletes to step up to the plate and take some of the pressure off of the experienced guys.
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"We've now gotten our feet wet and it is time for our younger people to contribute," Weber said.
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A few of these underclassmen did contribute last week.
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Freshman sprinter Jason Johnson ran well at Butler coming away with a second and fifth place finish in his two events.
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One of the two individual event winners for the men's team was freshman thrower Matt Kavanaugh.
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Kavanaugh won in his only event, the weight throw.
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In a sport like track and field, meets are set up in championship format to give the athletes a chance to prepare for their big meets later in the season.
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For UK, these big meets are the Southeastern Conference Championships in Gainesville, Fla., Feb. 21-22 and the NCAA National Championships in Indianapolis March 7-8.
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Weber is not expecting his team to go out and set any world records Saturday.
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He is just looking for his team's trend to continue.
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"It's just a step in the road." <P>
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