Feb. 18, 2008

Chapel Hill, N.C. - On Saturday, Shorter competed at the University of North Carolina Chick-fil-A Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C.

On the women's side, K'Ianca Dupree finished third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.21 seconds while Ashley Cousin come in fifth in the 60-meter dash in 7.65 seconds.

The Lady Hawks' A 4x400-meter relay team (Dupree, Ashley Cousin, Jessica Coons and Maria Addison) came in sixth with a time of 4:08.27.

For the Shorter men, Remy Charpentier took sixth in the 800-meters with a time of 1:54.46 while the men's A distance medley relay team (Cyrus Wakaba, Andrew Rodriguez, Allen O'Neal and Martin Hernandez) posted a time of 10:32.61 to take second and the A 4x400 relay team (Nick Dodson, Derickus Johnson, Logan Cornutt and Remy Charpentier) came in fourth in 3:25.11.

With their final regular season indoor meet in the past, the Shorter College track and field team is ready to prepare for the future.

That includes the group of Hawks and Lady Hawks who have qualified for the NAIA Indoor Track National Championships on March 6-8 in Johnson City, Tenn.

"Our coaching staff has really done a great job of mentoring some great athletes both on the men's and women's teams and I am really thankful for that most of all," Shorter director of track and field Scott Byrd said.

"We really have a great group of student-athletes and they are proving how hard they have worked by their Nationals Qualifying marks."

The team, which is only in its second year of existence, saw all three of its men's relay teams qualify for nationals while the women's 4x400-meter relay qualified for the first time in school history.

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