Championship Central | FloTrack

GREENSBORO, N.C.--When the 2019 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Outdoor Track & Field Championships conclude on Saturday at the Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T State, several nationally-ranked athletes will be on display.

And they will show off their talents in front of a national audience on FloTrack.

Trevor Stewart of North Carolina A&T State turned in the nation’s best time in the preliminaries of the 400 meters, pacing the field with a MEAC-record 44.40 and leading by more than a second.
 
The women’s 400-meter preliminaries saw the Aggies’ Tori Ray pace the field with a 52.89.
 
In the men’s 100-meter preliminaries, Rodney Rowe of North Carolina A&T State and Joseph Amoah of Coppin State, two of the nation’s best, posted times of 10.08 and 10.09, respectively. Rowe and Amoah advanced to Saturday’s final with the seventh- and eighth-best times in the nation.
 
Demek Kemp of South Carolina State, who boasts the second-best time in the nation, qualified with a 10.34.
 
On the women’s side, Norfolk State’s Kiara Grant turned in a MEAC-record 11.07 to pace the preliminaries, turning in what is now the fourth-fastest time in the nation. North Carolina A&T State’s Kayla White, who is top-five nationally in both the 100 and the 200, ran an 11.16 to post the second-fastest time.
 
Her teammate Cambrea Sturgis ran an 11.19, ninth-fastest in the nation.

White also won the NCAA championship in the 200 meters during the indoor season this past March.
 
Madeleine Akobundu of North Carolina A&T State ran a 12.87 in the preliminaries of the women’s 100-meter hurdles, the only runner to break the 13-second mark, with a time that would currently rank her tied for fourth in the nation.