Results | Championship Central


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Feb. 21, 2023 – The Howard University women dominated the finals for the second straight year en route to taking the 2023 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Indoor Track & Field Championship on Tuesday at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
 
The Bison obliterated the meet record they set in 2022 by racking up 235 points to claim their second straight title – and fifth overall. Norfolk State was a distant second with 116 points, while Morgan State came in third with 89 points.
 
Bison head coach David Oliver was named the meet’s Outstanding Coach.
 
Darci Khan was a two-time gold medalist for the Bison on Tuesday, winning both the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles. She opened the day with an 8.43 in the hurdles, before winning the dash in 8.22. The Bison swept the podium in the 60-meter dash, with De’ja Dade and Lamaria Washington finishing second and third, respectively.
 
In the hurdles, Howard finished 1-2, with Khan and Kaya-Rae Dunbar.
 
Jessica Wright gave the Bison a gold medal in the 400 meters, turning in a 52.70, a race in which five Bison qualified for the final, while Dasia Wilson won the 800 meters in 2:11.55.
 
Howard also took the women’s 4x400-meter relay, as Wright, Cathrina Morris, Aniya Woodruff and Kiya Lawson ran a 3:39.24.
 
Norfolk State’s Mercyline Kimaiyo, the meet’s Outstanding Runner, added two more gold medals to her total on Tuesday; she won the mile in 5:04.92 before turning in a 10:23.09 to take the 3,000 meters. Those two events were in addition to the 5,000-meter race she won on Sunday and the distance medley she helped win on Monday.
 
Latifa Ali of Coppin State won the women’s 200 meters in 23.61 – a race in which Howard had six of the eight finalists.
 
In field action, Delaware State’s Annalise Bond defended her title in the pole vault, clearing 3.30 meters (10 feet, 10 inches), while Morgan State’s Terine Lambert won the shot put with a distance of 13.90 meters (45 feet, 7.25 inches).
 
Joidon Boddie of North Carolina Central recorded a distance of 12.59 meters (41 feet, 3.75 inches) to win the women’s triple jump.
 
Morgan State’s Tia Jackson, who won the long jump and high jump earlier in the meet, was named Outstanding Field Athlete.
 
The top three finishers in each event were named All-MEAC.
 
Outstanding Coach: David Oliver, Howard
Outstanding Runner: Mercyline Kimaiyo, Norfolk State
Outstanding Field Athlete: Tia Jackson, Morgan State
 
ALL-MEAC
First Team
Darci Khan, HOW (60m, 60h), Latifa Ali, CSU (200), Jessica Wright, HOW (400, 4x400), Dasia Wilson, HOW (800), Mercyline Kimaiyo, NSU (Mile, DMR, 3,000, 5,000), Kara Grant, NSU (DMR), Armani Harris, NSU (DMR), Tynniesia Wilson, NSU (DMR), Cathrina Morris, HOW (4x400), Aniya Woodruff, HOW (4x400), Kiya Lawson, HOW (4x400), Tia Jackson, MSU (HJ, LJ), Joidon Boddie, NCCU (TJ), Annalise Bond, DSU (PV), Terine Lambert, MSU (SP), Mikyla Rodgers, HOW (WT), Jasmyn Hunter, HOW (Pent)
 
Second Team
De’ja Dade, HOW (60m), Kaya-Rae Dunbar, HOW (200, 60h), Kimani Alphonse, CSU (400, 4x400), Tynniesia Wilson, NSU (800), Kara Grant, NSU (Mile), Joslyn Crosby, HOW (3,000), Breanna McDonald, HOW (5,000), Melanie White, HOW (DMR), Jordyn Miller, HOW (DMR), Dasia Wilson, HOW (DMR), Camille Egbula, HOW (DMR), Shenelle Tomlinson, CSU (4x400), Latifa Ali, CSU (4x400), Destinee Mcloud, CSU (4x400), Tia Lucas, NCCU (HJ), Ishana Asinor, MSU (PV), Inara Shell, MSU (LJ), Micah Fulton, NCCU (TJ), Leslie Young, NSU (SP), Arieana Parker, NSU (WT), Kaelyn Woodrum, CSU (Pent)
 
Third Team
Lamaria Washington, HOW (60m), Jessica Wright, HOW (200), Shenelle Tomlinson, CSU (400), Laila Jackson, NCCU (800), Indya Richards, NSU (60h), Breanna McDonald, NSU (3,000), Ashley Lagat, DSU (5,000), Laila Jackson, NCCU (DMR), Summer Washington, NCCU (DMR), Gianna Marquez, NCCU (DMR), Victoria Swepson, NCCU (Mile, DMR), Khaliyah White, DSU (4x400), Kortney Brown, DSU (4x400), Lakendra Harpe, DSU (4x400), Catherine Glenn, DSU (4x400), Leah Williams-White, HOW (HJ), Destiny Hooks, NSU (PV), Ija Mumford, HOW (LJ), Ja’Tae Joyner, HOW (TJ), Johnelle Johnson, MSU (SP), Leslie Young, NSU (WT), Makenzie Harris, MSU (Pent)
 
 
About the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is in its 52^nd year of intercollegiate competition with the 2022-23 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of eight outstanding historically black institutions across the Atlantic coastline: Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State University.