March 11, 2004
Championship Info | Complete Coverage and Result Link via trackshark.com
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The University of Missouri track and field team competes Friday and Saturday in the 2004 NCAA Divison I Track & Field Championships in Fayettevile, Ark. All three Tigers in the championship field, Jennifer Bennett, Ashley Patten, and Conrad Woolsey, will participate in their first events Friday.
Friday's events that involve Missouri participants include ...
2:45 Men's Shot Put - Conrad Woolsey
4:30 Women's 800-meter run (Prelims) - Ashley Patten
5:35 Women's Pole Vault - Jennifer Bennett
Saturday's events...
6:25 Women's 800-meter run (Finals) - Ashley Patten
Here is some extra info on Missouri's participants...
Ashley Patten (So., 800m, Clarkston, Mich.)
Sophomore Ashley Patten goes into the NCAA Championships ranked as the 10th fastest runner in the event. Her time of 2:05.97, achieved at the Cyclone Last Chance Meet, places her as the second-fastest indoor half-miler in Missouri history. Earlier this season, Patten won the 800-meter title at the Big 12 Championship, earning her third all-Big 12 honor. In the 2003 outdoor season, Patten won the USATF Junior National Championship in the event and was part of Team USA's team that traveled to Barbados for the Pan-American Games. Patten's seed time for the championships is only a second off the third fastest on the list.
Jennifer Bennett (Sr., Pole Vault, Ashland, Mo.)
Senior Jennifer Bennett will make her third consecutive appearance in an NCAA Championship event after qualifying in the women's pole vault. Bennett will be one of 17 competitors in championship field. Last year at the Indoor NCAA Championships, Bennett earned an all-American honor with a sixth place finish after breaking the school record and what was then the Big 12 all-time record with a vault of 13-7? (4.15m). Also in 2003, Bennett won the Outdoor Big 12 title, gaining a fifth all-Big 12 honor, and broke the outdoor school record at the NCAA Mideast Regional.
Conrad Woolsey (Jr., Shot Put, Excelsior Springs, Mo.)
Junior transfer Conrad Woolsey enters the men's shot put event as the 12th highest-seed in the 14 thrower event. Woolsey's throw of 62 feet, ? inch (18.90m) places him third all-time in Missouri history behind 2003 track grads, Christian Cantwell and Russ Bell. Woolsey finished third in this year's Big 12 Championships trailing two he'll see in the NCAA's, Texas A&M's Ronnie Jimenez and collegiate leader, Nebraska's Carl Myerscough. Woolsey won the NCAA Division II Indoor Championship in the event in 2001 when he was with Northwest Missouri State. As a Bearcat, Woolsey racked up four all-American D-II honors with three in the shot put and one in the discus discipline.