Concord University track and field athletes produced strong showings at
two meets this weekend in what was their final chances to qualify for
the upcoming NCAA Indoor track and Field Championships.
Concord sent competitors to Denison University (Friday) and George Mason
University (Sunday) to compete in both school's last chance meets.
Robby Peters led Concord at Denison with a time of 8:29.00 in the
3,000-meter run. Peters finished in second place, but more importantly
met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the event when his time
was converted down to 8:23.15 due to track size. In addition to meeting
the NCAA standard, Peters also broke his former Concord school record of
8:44.61.
Denver Wright competed in five races this weekend. His best performance
was his NCAA provisional qualifying run of 22.20 seconds (converted from
22.59) in the 200-meter dash at George Mason. The time was good enough
for seventh place.
Wright also won the 60-meter dash (7.20 seconds) and placed second in
the 60-meter hurdles (8.72 seconds) at Denison. He tallied an even
better 60-meter time of 8.64 seconds (third place) at George Mason,
finishing short of the 8.31 seconds NCAA standard.
Jeff Fertig took part in the high jump at both locations. He won the
Denison competition at 1.98 meters, but recorded a higher clearance of
2.00 meters at George Mason, finishing in fourth place. Fertig already
owns a provisional qualifying distance of 2.06 meters from earlier in
the year.
Concord's women's 4x400-meter relay team of Shawnee Carnett, Demi Kirk,
Casey Ord and Lydia Powell ran another sub-four minute time of 3:59.74
at Denison to win its race, but finish just short of the NCAA
provisional standard.
RJ Anderson rounded out Concord's competitors this weekend with a
third-place time of 6.93 seconds in the 60-meter dash at George Mason.
Concord athletes that have reached the NCAA provisional mark in their
respective events will find out if they have been accepted into the
Division II National Championships next week. The national meet is
scheduled for March 8-9 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Carnett is guaranteed of a spot at the National Championships thanks to
an automatic qualifying time of 2:08.51 in the 800-meters.
The CU men's team has five NCAA provisional marks; Anderson in the
60-meters (6.85 seconds) and the 200-meters (21.80 seconds), Wright in
the 200-meters (22.20 seconds), Peters in the 3,000-meters (8:23.15) and
Fertig in the high jump (2.06 meters).
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