Maryland
ACC Outdoor Championships
Smith Earns All-ACC in Women's High Jump
4/23/2011 8:00:00 AM | Track & Field
April 23, 2011
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DURHAM, N.C. - Maryland freshman Amina Smith tied for third in the women's high jump Saturday to earn All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors at the ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Duke.
Smith cleared 5 feet, 6 inches in the rain-delayed event. She was one of five competitors over the bar at 5-6, but only two others had clearances at 5-8 to move on in the competition. Smith tied for third by virtue of fewer misses than others in the field.
Her five team points on Saturday helped the Terrapins finish with 34 for the meet, earning ninth place. Clemson won the women's competition with 202 points, with Florida State in second at 132.5 and North Carolina in third with 117.5.
Also for Maryland on Saturday, ACC discus champion Kristen Batts placed fourth in the women's hammer in a career-best 181-1 to move into third all-time at Maryland in that event. Moriah Young was fifth in a career-best 180-6 and jumped into fifth place on Maryland's list in the hammer. The Terrapins scored nine team points with the 4-5 finish.
DeAnna Brown placed eighth in the 100-meter dash in 11.85 seconds, while D'Ambour Lewis had a career-best 24.12 clocking in the women's 200 to place sixth. Brown's mark moved her into fifth on Maryland's all-time list in the 200 outdoors.
Senior Ashley Campbell had a career-best mark in the women's 5,000, finishing 16th in 17:19.98 to move into eighth all-time at Maryland. Becky Yep was 22nd for Maryland, also posting a career-best of 17:45.89.
The Terrapins placed sixth in the 4x100 relay, with Ashley Hendrix, Lewis, Heidi Paul and Brown finishing in a season-best 46.46. Hendrix, Brown, Taylor Bumpas and Lewis went 3:43.78 in the 4x400 relay to finish seventh.
On the men's side, Maryland's points came from the relays. Chris Brown, Avery Graham, Jarenn Stewart and Floyd Hawkes went 41.98 to place eighth in the 4x100 relay. In the final event of the meet, Dareem David, Brown, Sumanth Kuppalli and Hawkes placed seventh in the 4x400 relay at 3:18.11.
Maryland finished with 20 team points in the competition to finish 10th, just one point behind Miami. Florida State won the men's team championship with 174.5 points with Virginia Tech in second at 153.5 and North Carolina in third with 112.5.
Maryland competes next weekend at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
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