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Track & Field ACCtion: Weekend of March 21-22 March 25, 2008 Clemson's Padgett and Hardy Lead Tigers at Clemson Relays CLEMSON, S.C. - Travis Padgett posted regional-qualifying times in the 100m dash and 4x100m relay Saturday in winning both events to pace the men's track & field team at the Clemson Relays. Padgett cruised to victory in the 100m dash with a time of 10.11, while leading the 400m relay team to a winning time of 40.37 seconds. The remainder of the 4x100m team for Clemson was comprised of Cowin Mills, Corey Brown, and Gwantaveus Anderson. Padgett and his fellow sprinters also claimed the 4x200m relay title on Saturday, giving the junior a clean sweep of three events on the first weekend of outdoor season. Polly Hardy won the 100m hurdles Saturday to lead the women's track & field team at the Clemson Relays. The senior from Anderson, SC posted a regional-qualifying time in the event and easily won over teammates Krystal Barringer and Michaylin Golladay. Hardy had a time of 13.92 on Saturday. Her personal best in the event was a 13.57 last season, which ranks third on the all-time performance list at Clemson. Barringer (14.29) was runner-up.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The Duke Outdoor Track and Field team competed in its first meet of the season this weekend at the Wake Forest Open at Kentner Stadium and had six performers qualify for the postseason in the first outdoor meet of 2008. In the pole vault on Friday afternoon, freshman Amy Fryt vaulted 11'-9.75" and placed third in her first outdoor collegiate meet. That mark earned her the fifth spot on the all-time Duke outdoor pole vault records' list.
Redshirt freshmen John Austin, senior Mark DellaVolpe and junior Robert Weinstein highlighted the Wake Forest Open for Duke by all qualifying for the NCAA East Regional and the IC4A Championships in May in the javelin on Friday evening. Their marks of 215'-7," 214'-6" and 203'-6" placed them third, fifth and ninth, respectively. The trio also earned the second, third and fourth-longest throws in Duke history. It was the first meet since Duke's appearance in the Wake Forest Open in 2007 for Austin, who had season-ending surgery on his elbow following that competition.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida State track and field squad wasted no time jumping into the outdoor season as the team posted four regional qualifying marks at the home-hosted Snowbird Invitational. Senior Matt Wernke, freshman Teona Rodgers and sophomore Tiara Swanagan and the men's 4x400m relay team earned regional marks today, March 22 at the Mike Long Track. Florida State closed out its first home meet of the outdoor season with a talent-filled men's 4x400m relay. The Seminoles ran two squads in the race. The "A" team of Tywayne Buchanan, Walter Dix, Elliot Wood and Kevin Williams crossed the line as the top collegiate finishers of the meet with a regional qualifying time of 3:08.16. Also in the field, Swanagan topped the collegiate women's performers in the triple jump with a 40'11.50" mark to finish third overall. The distance not only qualified Swanagan for the regional competition, it surpassed the previous meet record set last year at Mike Long Track.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - E.C. Gibbs placed first in the men's 1500-meter run to lead the Georgia Tech men's and women's track and field teams on the second day of the Wake Forest Open at Kentner Stadium on the Wake Forest campus. Gibbs, a junior from Cullman, Ala., won the 1500m race with a time of 3:53.19. Senior David Herren placed third in the race with a time of 3:54.86. The women's team was led by freshman Jenae Anderson, who placed second in the 100-meter dash finals with a time of 11.96. Anderson also finished sixth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.53. Sophomore Tiffany Grant placed 11th in the 200m with a time of 24.82.
CONWAY, S.C. - Toni Aluko, Kristen Batts and Ashley Williams each won their events this weekend to highlight University of Maryland performances at the Shamrock Invitational track and field meet hosted by Coastal Carolina. The event marked the opening of the outdoor track and field season for the Terrapins. Aluko, the reigning ACC champion in the women's outdoor high jump, hit a regional mark with a first-place finish in the high jump at 5-8.75. Williams matched her career-best to win the women's shot put at 45-3.75, with teammate Jillian Anwah in third and Aysha Gregory in sixth. Batts, making her outdoor debut for the Terps, won the discus at 145-6, moving into fifth all-time outdoors at Maryland. Anwah was second at 142-3 and Gregory was fourth at 137-11.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The University of Miami men's track team ended the three-day Hurricane Invitational Saturday, as Casey McGinn took the lone championship for UM in the pole vault at Cobb Stadium. McGinn, an Orlando, Fla. native, reached a career-high mark of 4.85m in winning the event. In the 800-meters, junior Patrick O"Donnell took second place with a time of 1:55.95. In the 110-meter hurdles Cory Nelms and Les Bradley II finished third and fourth respectively with times of 14.05 and 14.21, each claiming regional marks. Nelms also competed in the 400-meter hurdles, finishing fourth at 54.35.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The University of Miami women's track team saw four individuals and a relay team reach regional qualifying times during the final day of competition at the Hurricane Invitational at Cobb Stadium. Three freshman swept the 400-meter hurdles for the Hurricanes as Ti'erra Brown (58.43), Takecia Jameson (58.45) and Tameka Jameson (59.65), with each reaching regional qualifying standards. The 4x100-meter relay team comprised of freshman Charlene Fuller, sophomore transfer Nene Kamate, freshman Tara Thomas and sophomore Kristy Whyte qualified for regionals with a second place finish with a time of 45.23. Whyte also qualified in the 200-meters with a second place run of 23.95, setting a new personal-best.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The North Carolina track and field team picked up three more regional qualifying marks on Saturday at the Wake Forest Open with Charles Cox finishing third in the 200, freshman Kacey James took second in the javelin and Porscha Dobson joined LaToya James and Vanneisha Ivy with a regional mark in the 100-meter hurdles. The Tar Heels will return to action next weekend when a group will head to the Raleigh Relays and another set of athletes will take part in the Liberty Asics Collegiate Invitational. Ashley Hill finished eighth in the 100-meter dash final with a time of 12.27 and followed up that performance with a seventh-place finish in the 200 in a time of 24.56. Finishing just ahead of Hill were a duo of Tar Heels, Tyra Johnson finished fourth clocking a time of 24.49 ahead of Shardae Anderson who took home fifth in a time of 24.53. On the men's side, Charles Cox opened his outdoor season in style as he tallied a regional mark in the 200 as he clocked a 21.15 which was good for third. John Curtiss, Andrew Rotz and Sam Pompei all competed in the 1500 on Saturday with Curtiss taking 13th (3:59.24), Rotz finishing in 39th (4:06.05) and Pompei coming in 57th (4:10.20).
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Behind a win in the 400m hurdles by Kevin Hutton, NC State men's track & field finished off its stay at the 49er Classic in Charlotte on Saturday to open the outdoor season. Hutton's time of 52.32 took the event, and Gavin Coombs finished second in the 1,500m with a time of 3:51.55. Jason Jones finished third with a mark of 57-07.00 in the shot put. Reggie Reese finished fourth in the 100m dash with a time of 10.80, and A'Tolani Akinkuotu ran a 10.65 in the prelims of the same event.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Mattie Bethea finished second in the heptathlon at the 49er Classic in Charlotte with a score of 4,611, as the NC State Wolfpack women's track and field team finished its opening tournament of the outdoor season. Bethea's mark is the fourth-best heptathlon score in school history, and she was joined by record-setting performances from Njerie Wainaina and Lauren Montgomery. Bethea competed in the 800meters, long jump, and javelin to post her second place showing. She jumped a 17'07.50", good for second place, in the long jump. Her throw of 119'00" in the javelin, the sixth longest in Wolfpack history, was good for third place and a career-best. Njerie Wainaina set a personal-best in the long jump with a 17'10.75", the eighth-best mark in school history.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Senior All-American Alex Tatu and sophomores Ayla Smith and Meghan Briggs led 12 Cavaliers and one relay team to top-three finishes in their events Saturday, by winning their respective events in the final day of the 49er Classic. In addition, Smith's time in the 400m hurdles was her second straight NCAA regional-qualifying mark in the event, while Briggs met the NCAA regional mark in the javelin throw. Smith ran a 1:00.51 in yesterday's preliminaries to earn the top seed in today's finals. She was again the first to cross the line in the long hurdles today, finishing in a personal-best 1:00.42, to improve her NCAA qualifying time. Briggs threw a length of 45.57m in the javelin throw to lead all competitors, while Tatu was the first to cross the line in the 2000m steeplechase. He finished in 5:59.48.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. and WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Sophomore Kristi Castlin reset her 100-meter hurdle school record with a first-place performance of 12.81 seconds to lead the Virginia Tech track & field team at the Hurricane Invitational on Saturday in Cobb Stadium. Castlin, along with classmate Queen Harrison took first and second place with personal-best performances in the 100-meter hurdles. Castlin beat her previous school record and personal best in the event by .01 seconds, with a 12.81-second effort to claim first place. On the men's side, Tech's freshmen pole vault tandem of Joe Davis and Jared Jodon took two of the top three spots, while representing the Hokies' men's team at the Wake Forest Open in Kentner Stadium on Saturday.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The Wake Forest track and field squad set three new school records, posted four first place finishes and 16 top five finishes at the Wake Forest Open on Friday and Saturday at Kentner Stadium. Senior Kerry Major tied the NCAA provisional mark for the 100m dash in the preliminary round, clocking a time of 10.55. In the finals, Major finished second overall with a 10.64 run. Melissa Council had the first of Wake's four first place finishes, taking the 400m title with a 55.37 second run. Nicole Castronouva placed eighth in the same event, clocking a 56.90 finish. |
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