May 26, 2005

While the Missouri Track & Field team looks for great performances at the NCAA Mideast Regional this weekend, three Tiger post-collegians will continue their outdoor season in different locales. Derrick Peterson and Timothy Dunne will take on competition at the Payton Jordan U.S. Open in Palo Alto, Calif., in different 800 meter events while Fiona Asigbee, current national leader in the heptathlon, will take on completion at the North America, Central America, and Caribbean (NACAC) Combined Event Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico, part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge.

Asigbee scored her personal best and national-leading mark of 5,773 points at the Audrey Walton Combined Events in mid-April in Columbia. Asigbee won that event, setting the Walton Stadium record. Paced by a six-foot high jump, Asigbee placed 10th at the 2004 USA Olympic Team Trials and will face a good field this weekend. Included in the field is Tracey Lawyer-Thomas who placed eighth at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2004.

The NACAC Combined Event Championships will take place Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29.

Peterson at the U.S. Open will face fellow American David Krummenacker in the featured 800-meter run. Peterson edged out Krummenacker by 59 hundredths of a second for the third spot on the U.S. Olympic Team as last year's trials. South Africa's national-record holder in the event, Mohammed Al-Salhi is on the meet entry list having the 10th-fastest time in the world this year (1:45.64). Also in the field is last year's meet winner, Elliott Blount - Peterson was fifth in last year's race.

Dunne will once again run in the Olympic Development 800-meter, a race he won last year in 1:48.18.

The meet occur on this Monday, Memorial Day, May 30th and will be shown the same day on a tape-delay basis on ESPN2 from 9 to 10:30 p.m., central.

For more information on the NACAC meet, visit iaaf.org. Information on the U.S. Open can be found on usatf.org.