kaorder1999
03-02-2004, 07:25 PM
Dabryan Blanton is number 2 in the nation right now in the 60 meters and recently won the Big 12 Championships in that race...congrats DaBryan!
FROM OU WEBSITE:
DaBryan Blanton in the 60 and Austin Landreth in the pole vault won Big 12 titles Saturday during second day action of the eighth annual Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship.
Senior LaVerne Jones closed her amazing weekend of competition with second place finishes in the 60 and the 200 and she ran the opening leg of OU’s sixth place 1600-meter relay.
Nebraska won the men’s and women’s titles. The Sooner men finished sixth, tying the previous all-time best finish for OU. The Sooner men, 11th in 2003, finished sixth in 1997, the first year of the Big 12 Conference. The OU women finished eighth, just half a point point away from tying an all-time best finish and just 4.5 points from a top six finish. The Sooners were ninth in the meet one year ago.
Blanton’s winning time in the 60, 6.67, was an NCAA provisional mark but fell short of the 6.57 he posted in semifinal action on Friday. His semifinal time was the second fastest by an American this season until Saturday’s USATF National Indoor. After that event, Blanton’s 6.57 dropped to the fourth fastest in the country. It also set a Big 12 meet record and is the all-time best mark in the Big 12.
Landreth, who won the NCAA Regional title last May in Lincoln, returned Saturday to win the conference indoor pole vault title with a 17-5.75. The mark was a season and career best for the Elk City junior and beat the NCAA provisional standard. OU also got points in the pole vault from Scott Martin, who tied for sixth, with a 16-6. Martin is a freshman from Tulsa.
Jones broke her own school record in the 60, running a 7.24. She had set the record Friday in the semifinals when she set a Big 12 meet record with a 7.27. That mark fell today in the final. She then ran a 23.46 in the 200, another NCAA automatic time but not her season best in the event.
Aldwyn Sappleton, the 2002 Big 12 champion in the 600, finished second in the 800 with a 1:49.41. The time beat the NCAA provisional standard and was a season best for Sappleton by nearly two seconds.
The men’s 1600 meter relay, with Sappleton taking the second leg and Blanton running the third leg, posted a season best 3:10.41 to finish third. Dwyane Duhaney ran the opening leg and Dax Thomas ran the anchor leg on the relay which posted an NCAA provisional mark for the first time this season.
Enid freshman Catherine Odell finished third in the 1000 meter run with a career best 2:49.83 and Choctaw freshman Jon McMillian established a career best in the high jump, clearing 7-0.25 to finish fourth. Odell’s time lowered her career mark by nearly seven seconds. The Sooner women got points in the 800 from sophomore Nicola Maye, who finished fifth with a 2:10.40, and freshman Jessica Eldridge, who was seventh with a 2:11.71.
Enid junior Dan Strong held steady in the heptathlon, finishing seventh with 4,926 points.The final score is a career best for Strong by more than 300 points and ranks as the second best mark all-time in school history. Salah Hussein finished eighth in the men’s 1000 with a 2:29.35.
The women’s 1600 meter relay, with Jones running the opening leg and Maye taking the third leg, finished sixth with a season best 3:47.82. Terrika Warren ran the second leg and Ashley Johnson ran the anchor leg.
The top eight finishers in each event earned All-Big 12 honors. The OU men produced 17 All-Big 12 honorees, including those with multiple honors, and the Sooner women produced 14 All-Big 12 honorees, again including the multiple honorees.
The first day of the championship was one for Sooner sprinters as Jones and Blanton posted the fastest times in the preliminary and semifinal rounds of the 60-meter dash to lead the way into Saturday’s final.
Blanton’s time of 6.57 improved his previous season best by .07 seconds. It ranks as the second fastest time on the NCAA qualifying list as well. Blanton’s attempt to double in the 200 was stopped when he was disqualified in his heat of the 200 Friday evening.
Not to be outdone, Jones posted a school record with her 7.27 in the 60 semifinal. The time is an automatic qualifying mark for the NCAA Indoor and broke the meet record of 7.29 she had tied in the prelims. Jones later posted the second fastest qualifying time in the 200 with a season best mark of 23.31, also an NCAA automatic qualifying mark.
The Sooners got points in the first day of competition in the men’s long jump, the men’s distance medley relay, the women’s pole vault and the women’s distance medley relay. Junior Robert Smith recorded a season best 24-3.5 in the long jump. The mark improved his previous season best by nearly a foot and earned him a fourth place finish. Senior Cory Crosby finished sixth in the long jump with a 23-11.75.
Senior Leslie Dunlap finished tied for sixth in the pole vault with a 12-7.5. Four vaulters went out at that height with two tying for fourth with one miss and two tying for sixth with two misses.
The men’s distance medley relay finished third with a 9:53.03, also a season best. The women’s distance medley relay finished fifth with an 11:39.81.
OU will send entries to NCAA qualifying meets next weekend with the decisions on which athletes and which meets to be made later in the week. The NCAA Championship is scheduled for March 12-13 in Fayetteville, Ark. OU currently has a pair of automatic qualifiers, Blanton in the 60 and Jones in the 60 and 200. Sooners who have met provisional standards include Sappleton in the 800, Landreth in the pole vault, Eldridge in the 800 and the mile and the men’s 1600-meter relay.
FROM OU WEBSITE:
DaBryan Blanton in the 60 and Austin Landreth in the pole vault won Big 12 titles Saturday during second day action of the eighth annual Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship.
Senior LaVerne Jones closed her amazing weekend of competition with second place finishes in the 60 and the 200 and she ran the opening leg of OU’s sixth place 1600-meter relay.
Nebraska won the men’s and women’s titles. The Sooner men finished sixth, tying the previous all-time best finish for OU. The Sooner men, 11th in 2003, finished sixth in 1997, the first year of the Big 12 Conference. The OU women finished eighth, just half a point point away from tying an all-time best finish and just 4.5 points from a top six finish. The Sooners were ninth in the meet one year ago.
Blanton’s winning time in the 60, 6.67, was an NCAA provisional mark but fell short of the 6.57 he posted in semifinal action on Friday. His semifinal time was the second fastest by an American this season until Saturday’s USATF National Indoor. After that event, Blanton’s 6.57 dropped to the fourth fastest in the country. It also set a Big 12 meet record and is the all-time best mark in the Big 12.
Landreth, who won the NCAA Regional title last May in Lincoln, returned Saturday to win the conference indoor pole vault title with a 17-5.75. The mark was a season and career best for the Elk City junior and beat the NCAA provisional standard. OU also got points in the pole vault from Scott Martin, who tied for sixth, with a 16-6. Martin is a freshman from Tulsa.
Jones broke her own school record in the 60, running a 7.24. She had set the record Friday in the semifinals when she set a Big 12 meet record with a 7.27. That mark fell today in the final. She then ran a 23.46 in the 200, another NCAA automatic time but not her season best in the event.
Aldwyn Sappleton, the 2002 Big 12 champion in the 600, finished second in the 800 with a 1:49.41. The time beat the NCAA provisional standard and was a season best for Sappleton by nearly two seconds.
The men’s 1600 meter relay, with Sappleton taking the second leg and Blanton running the third leg, posted a season best 3:10.41 to finish third. Dwyane Duhaney ran the opening leg and Dax Thomas ran the anchor leg on the relay which posted an NCAA provisional mark for the first time this season.
Enid freshman Catherine Odell finished third in the 1000 meter run with a career best 2:49.83 and Choctaw freshman Jon McMillian established a career best in the high jump, clearing 7-0.25 to finish fourth. Odell’s time lowered her career mark by nearly seven seconds. The Sooner women got points in the 800 from sophomore Nicola Maye, who finished fifth with a 2:10.40, and freshman Jessica Eldridge, who was seventh with a 2:11.71.
Enid junior Dan Strong held steady in the heptathlon, finishing seventh with 4,926 points.The final score is a career best for Strong by more than 300 points and ranks as the second best mark all-time in school history. Salah Hussein finished eighth in the men’s 1000 with a 2:29.35.
The women’s 1600 meter relay, with Jones running the opening leg and Maye taking the third leg, finished sixth with a season best 3:47.82. Terrika Warren ran the second leg and Ashley Johnson ran the anchor leg.
The top eight finishers in each event earned All-Big 12 honors. The OU men produced 17 All-Big 12 honorees, including those with multiple honors, and the Sooner women produced 14 All-Big 12 honorees, again including the multiple honorees.
The first day of the championship was one for Sooner sprinters as Jones and Blanton posted the fastest times in the preliminary and semifinal rounds of the 60-meter dash to lead the way into Saturday’s final.
Blanton’s time of 6.57 improved his previous season best by .07 seconds. It ranks as the second fastest time on the NCAA qualifying list as well. Blanton’s attempt to double in the 200 was stopped when he was disqualified in his heat of the 200 Friday evening.
Not to be outdone, Jones posted a school record with her 7.27 in the 60 semifinal. The time is an automatic qualifying mark for the NCAA Indoor and broke the meet record of 7.29 she had tied in the prelims. Jones later posted the second fastest qualifying time in the 200 with a season best mark of 23.31, also an NCAA automatic qualifying mark.
The Sooners got points in the first day of competition in the men’s long jump, the men’s distance medley relay, the women’s pole vault and the women’s distance medley relay. Junior Robert Smith recorded a season best 24-3.5 in the long jump. The mark improved his previous season best by nearly a foot and earned him a fourth place finish. Senior Cory Crosby finished sixth in the long jump with a 23-11.75.
Senior Leslie Dunlap finished tied for sixth in the pole vault with a 12-7.5. Four vaulters went out at that height with two tying for fourth with one miss and two tying for sixth with two misses.
The men’s distance medley relay finished third with a 9:53.03, also a season best. The women’s distance medley relay finished fifth with an 11:39.81.
OU will send entries to NCAA qualifying meets next weekend with the decisions on which athletes and which meets to be made later in the week. The NCAA Championship is scheduled for March 12-13 in Fayetteville, Ark. OU currently has a pair of automatic qualifiers, Blanton in the 60 and Jones in the 60 and 200. Sooners who have met provisional standards include Sappleton in the 800, Landreth in the pole vault, Eldridge in the 800 and the mile and the men’s 1600-meter relay.