Maryland
ACC Outdoor Championships
Fedrick Earns All-ACC Status at Outdoor Championships
4/19/2009 8:00:00 AM | Track & Field
April 19, 2009
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Maryland senior Michelle Fedrick earned All-ACC honors with her second-place finish in the women's 400-meter dash, highlighting Terrapin performances Saturday on the final day of the Atlantic Coast Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships being hosted by the University of Miami.
Fedrick ran a season- and career-best time of 53.22, cutting almost a second off her previous season-best of 53.94 from the Florida Relays and moving into second on Maryland's all-time list. She had run a 53.85 in Friday's qualifying. She finished second in the final to Britany St. Louis of Florida State, who won in 52.97.
Tommy Friscia and Zack Ray had Maryland's top finishes on the men's side on Saturday.
Friscia placed fourth in the 800-meter final at 1:52.49, moving up one spot from his No. 5 qualifying spot from Friday's prelims.
Ray, a freshman, was Maryland's top point-scorer in the meet for the men, getting five for his fourth-place finish with 52.79 in the 400 hurdles and another two team points to place seventh in the 110 hurdles at 14.65.
Fedrick's eight team points, combined with seven points from relay performances, gave the Terrapins 35 points in the final team standings and a tie with Wake Forest for ninth place. Florida State scored 160 points to win the women's team title, followed by Virginia Tech (127) and North Carolina (123).
The Maryland women placed fifth in the 4x400 relay, as Melony McKay, Michelle Fedrick, DeAnna Brown and D'Ambour Lewis ran 3:41.66. Alexis Booker, Lewis, Ashley Hendrix and Brown went a season-best 46.61 to place sixth in the 4x100 relay.
Erin Matyus ran in the 1,500-meter final on Saturday, placing 12th. She had run a season-best 4:33.44 on Friday to earn a spot in the final. Ashley Campbell ran 17:56.34 to place 16th for the Terps in the women's 5,000.
Anthony Walker, Jeremy Samuels, Legonn Haskins and Floyd Hawkes went 42.05 to earn an IC4A-qualifying time and finish seventh in the 4x100 relay. Walker, Hawkes, Ray and Samuels were ninth in the men's 4x400 relay at 3:16.89, also an IC4A-qualifying mark.
On the men's side, Maryland finished with 22 points, finishing 10th. Virginia and Florida State tied for the men's team championship, each with 141 points. Virginia Tech was just behind with 130.
Selected Maryland student-athletes will compete next weekend in Philadelphia at the prestigious Penn Relays.
Women - Team Rankings - 21 Events Scored
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1) Florida State 160 2) Virginia Tech 127
3) North Carolina 123 4) Virginia 74
5) Miami 69 6) Georgia Tech 55.50
7) NC State 52.50 8) Clemson 44
9) Wake Forest 35 9) Maryland 35
11) Duke 33 12) Boston College 8
Men - Team Rankings - 21 Events Scored
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1) Virginia 141 1) Florida State 141
3) Virginia Tech 130 4) Georgia Tech 81
5) North Carolina 72 6) Clemson 69
7) Duke 61 8) Wake Forest 45
9) Miami 40 10) Maryland 22
11) Boston College 9 12) NC State 7
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