University of Missouri
NCAA Mideast Regional Championships
Mayes, Nickoley, Hobson Join Lee at Nationals
5/26/2007 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field
May 26, 2007
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Missouri Track & Field team finished day two of the 2007 NCAA Mideast Regional at Audrey J. Walton Stadium with three more Tigers joining sophomore thrower Krishna Lee (Kansas City, Mo.) at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, Calif. Both the Tiger men and women scored 17 points, placing the women 13th overall and the men 15th.
Lee continued her good meet as she set a school record in the hammer throw. Lee advanced to the final round where she finished fifth, placing her in two events at nationals. Yesterday, Lee finished second in the shot put after throwing a new personal best. In the hammer throw, she tossed 119 feet, 6 inches (60.82 meters) in her second attempt. Coming into the event Lee was seeded eighth, but similar to yesterday she put tossed another personal best, helping her climb the standings.
"Getting two personal records doesn't happen every day so it was really exciting," Lee said. "My goal for the meet was 60 meters and I met it. It was great to do well at Missouri and to be able to have my friends and family around."
After a rain delay that lasted just over an hour the track events resumed at 5:25 p.m. (CDT). The Tigers qualified a runner for nationals in the 800-meter dash on both the men's and women's side. Senior Marcus Mayes (Sand Springs, Okla.) qualified for the final by filing a protest after being tripped going around the second turn in yesterday's preliminary race. Mayes finished today's event with a personal best time of 1:47.71, putting him in second place and automatically qualifying him for the national competition.
"It felt really good," Mayes said. "It definitely feels good to hit 1.47. It's kind of a relief. That's what I wanted to do all season long was qualify for nationals."
Missouri qualified its second runner for nationals on the women's side as Trisa Nickoley (Tecumseh, Kan.) posted the fourth best time in the final with a time of 2:05.11. With 11 prior All-Big 12 honors, this will be Nickoley's first national championship appearance.
"It's been a goal of mine all season to qualify for nationals," Nickoley said. "But I've never quite made it, and to do it now feels great."
On the men's side, senior Bill Hobson (Katy, Texas) set a personal best of his own in the shot put. Seeded 20th coming into the event, Hobson earned an automatic bid to nationals with a fifth-place finish. With a throw of 58-9¼ (17.19m), Hobson topped his previous best of 58-3¼ (17.76m), which he set at last season's Mideast Regional in Knoxville, Tenn.
"That is the great thing about the regional meets," Hobson said. "If you put it all together and if you have a big throw when it counts, you get to go to nationals."
Senior Jamie Wynn (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Shernelle Nicholls (St. Andrew Parrish, Barbados) took part in the women's discus throw. Nicholls finished in 12th place with a throw of 155-4 (47.36m), while Winn finished two spots back in 14th.
Appearing in her first regional, Angela Potrykus (Evergreen, Colo.) competed in the 3000-meter steeplechase, in which she was clocked at 10:58.04, good enough for 10th place.
Closing the competition for the Tigers, two athletes participated in the triple jump, one on the men's and women's side. Hedvig Glomsroed (Fredricksead, Norway) finished in tied for 11th place for the women, while Jason Miller (Stafford, Va.) finished 23rd for the men.
The two-day event came to conclusion after the running of the 4x400-meter relay races. LSU finished atop the men's standings with 70 points. Auburn (55), Louisville (50), Tennessee (49) and Wisconsin (45) rounded out the top five.
LSU also topped the women's standings in a much more convincing fashion. LSU finished with 112 points, with Arkansas a distant second with 77. Michigan (63), Tennessee (43) and Auburn (35) closed out the top five.
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