University of Missouri
Tom Botts Invitational
Tigers Have Big Day At Home At Botts Meet
4/16/2005 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field
April 16, 2005
COLUMBIA, Mo. - A busy weekend of track and field in Columbia, Mo., concluded Saturday with the second day of the ninth-annual Tom Botts Invitational at the University of Missouri. The Tigers won seven individual titles, added four more entries into the NCAA Regional Championships, and several meet records were broken on a picture-perfect weather day at Audrey J. Walton Stadium.
Junior Ashley Patten and freshman Trisa Nickoley once again teamed up to take first and second in the women's 800-meter run. Patten won in a time of 2:06.48, a new meet record. Sophomore Marcus Mayes placed third in the men's 800-meter run, bettering his regional qualifying time to 1:50.23.
Junior Amanda Bales won the women's 1500-meter run for the second-consecutive weekend, running in 4:26.95. Sophomore Tipper O'Brien was the top collegian in the men's 1500, running in 3:49.42.
Senior Jesse Sims won the men's high jump competition for the fourth year in a row, bettering his season best to 7-½ (2.15m)
Senior Jennifer Bennett placed second in the women's pole vault with a season-best clearing of 12-11½ (3.95m). Kansas' Amy Linnen broke the stadium record with a vault of 13-5¾ (4.11m).
In the men's shot put, Tiger post-collegian Christian Cantwell took the title, breaking his own meet record with a throw of 65-10¼ (20.07m). Senior Conrad Woolsey earned a spot in the NCAA regionals with his first throw of the outdoor season, placing third with a toss of 60-3 (18.36m). Freshman Nate Englin also qualified for the regional championships with a throw of 57-7½ (17.56m), placing fifth.
Sophomore Melanie Uher won the women's discus, coming within an inch of her personal best, with a throw of 165-1 (50.31m). On the men's side, sophomore Bobby Musil improved his personal best and regional qualifying mark in discus for the third week in a row, placing second with a throw of 177-6 (54.11m).
Senior Jason Jones (Columbia, Mo/Rock Bridge HS) ended his final meet at home with style, scoring a personal best in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.46.
On Friday in the Botts meet, the Tigers gained three additions to the NCAA regional qualifying list. Junior Chris Horn leaped to a five-inch personal best in the long jump, winning with a jump of 24-3½ (7.40m). In the hammer throw, redshirt freshman Tyler Dailey (Joplin, Mo.) threw to a personal-best of 186-8 (56.89m), placing third. Jason Morris improved his regional qualifying mark with a fifth-place toss of 185-8 (56.60m).
Freshman Maddie Schueler reset the meet record in the women's 5000-meter run, winning in 17:04.07.
Friday's action included a new world record in the women's decathlon by Lithuanian Austra Skujyte in the Audrey Walton Combined Events. Several big performances were also recorded in the men's decathlon and traditional women's heptathlon events.
In the men's decathlon, junior Tiger Hans Uldal won with a new meet- and stadium-record score of 7,731 points. Uldal's score, just two points off his personal best and school record, earns him an automatic spot in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in early-June. The 2004 Olympian from Norway gained solid marks in each of the 10 events, including a leap of 24-1 (7.34m) which qualifies him for the NCAA Regionals in the long jump and an outdoor personal best in the pole vault of 15-7 (4.75m).
Sophomore Bjorn Sommerfeldt earned a firm NCAA provisional qualifying mark in the decathlon, placing second with 7,336 points, a new overall personal-best score. In the process, Sommerfeldt added four inches to his personal best in the long jump with a leap of 23-6 (7.16m), an inch to his best in the high jump (6-2¼, 1.89m), a foot to his best in the discus (131-4, 36.44m), two inches to his pole vault best (14-11, 4.55m), and slapped a half-second off his best time in the 1500-meter run.
Senior Brandon Goebbert also scored a personal best in the decathlon with a fifth-place score of 6,773.
Tiger post-collegian Fiona Asigbee reset the meet and stadium record in the women's heptathlon, winning with 5,773 points. Her score eclipsed the `B'-qualifying standard for entry into the USATF Championships. Asigbee was helped by personal bests in the shot put and 200-meter dash. Nebraska's Sara Jane Baker was the top collegian in the event, scoring 5,469 points.
Some Tigers also traveled to the Mt. SAC Relays in Carmel, Calif., and competed late Friday evening. Senior Jill Petersen gained an NCAA regional qualifying mark in the women's steeplechase, with a time of 17:15.23.
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