SSU Relay Team Qualifies For NCAA Championship
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Kenshard Hamilton, Cameron Hall, Chazwyn Price, and Darrius Baker kept the 2013 Savannah State Outdoor Track and Field season alive with a record-setting run in the 4x100 meter relay at the NCAA East Region Preliminary Championship, qualifying the team for the National Championship.
Saturday, the team ran a 39.93 for an 11th place finish on the Irwin Belk Track in Greensboro, North Carolina on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University, setting a school record in the event.
The Tigers will travel to Eugene, Oregon, to the campus of the University of Oregon for the 2013 NCAA Championship meet, June 5-8.
On Friday, Hall ran a 13.91 in the preliminary heat of the 110 meter hurdles, finishing in 14th place. On Saturday, Hall missed the cut by two places, after running a 13.89 in the semifinals, placing 14th.
Baker finished the 200m dash with a time of 21.12 on Friday, shy of qualifying for the semifinal run on Saturday.
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NCCU'S McCOY Finishes Two Spots Shy Of Advancing To NCAA Nationals
GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina Central University sprinter Ashley McCoy finished in 14th place in the women’s 200-meter dash at the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field East Region Preliminary Championships on Saturday at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, N.C.
McCoy ended her final season as an NCCU student-athlete during the quarterfinals with a time of 23.61 seconds, falling two spots short of advancement to the national semifinals in Oregon. She advanced to the quarterfinals after earning the 20th slot with a time of 23.72 in the first round on Friday.
In addition, McCoy finished 28th in the 100m dash with a time of 11.62, four spots away for qualifying for the quarterfinals.
Senior high jumper Willie Calvin finished 27th in the preliminary round of the men’s high jump after clearing the height of 2.05 meters (6’8.75”).
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Three Spartans Headed to NCAA Championships
GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the second time in three years, the Norfolk State track and field programs will send a contingent of at least three athletes to the NCAA Outdoor National Championships.
Keith Nkrumah (110m hurdles) and James Taylor (200m) punched their tickets with excellent races on Saturday night at the NCAA East Preliminary Round at Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T. They will join Champagne Bell of the NSU women’s track team, who qualified in the long jump on Thursday, at the outdoor nationals next month in Eugene, Ore.
Bell and Nkrumah will be making their second career trips to the outdoor nationals, and Taylor his first. Bell and Nkrumah, along with Darris Shelton (LJ) and Sean Holston (400m), all qualified in 2011. Taylor was a second-team indoor All-American in the 200 earlier this season.
Nkrumah finished second in his heat and ran the fifth-fastest qualifying time overall on Saturday. Nkrumah crossed the finish line in 13.63 seconds. That is the second-fastest time of his career, behind only the school-record 13.60 he ran last month at the NSU Relays.
Roughly half an hour later, Taylor posted a PR of 20.63 seconds to place third and earn the last of the three automatic qualifying spots from the first heat of the men’s 200 meters. Overall, the time of 20.63 was the sixth-fastest of the 12 qualifiers.
Earlier in the evening, Nkrumah, Taylor, Damian Smith and Kenneth Smith ran a season-best time in the 4x100 relay, but it wasn’t quite enough to advance to nationals. The MEAC championship quartet finished sixth in its heat in a time of 40.32 seconds, good for 19th out of the 24-team field.
The NSU women’s 4x100m relay team also ran a season-best time, but fell just shy of qualifying for the national meet. Bell, Torie Cunningham, Qua’Nesha Wallace and Brittney McCants posted a time of 44.91 seconds and placed fourth in their heat. They ranked 13th out of the field of 24, missing out on qualifying for nationals by just one spot.
Kiara Howell completed NSU’s performances at the East Preliminary with a best throw of 41 feet, 9.25 inches in the shot put, ranking her 46th in the field.
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Green Finishes 28th in Triple Jump at NCAA Preliminary Championships
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Coppin State's Shane Green finished 28th overall in the triple jump on Saturday at the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Preliminary Championships at Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T.
Green, who competed in the second of flour flights, posted a best jump of 48-8.75 to finish 7th in his flight and 28th overall.
His first jump of the day was 48-2 and then he followed with a mark of 48-8.75. He jumped 48-0.75 on his final jump of the day.
Omar Craddock of Florida won the competition with a jump of 52-7.50.
Green came up short in his quest to become the first Coppin State triple jumper to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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