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Solid Opening For Terps Track At The Penn Relays

April 25, 2002

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Even though the rain fell in Philadelphia at day one of the 108th Penn Relays, it didn't damper the Terps performances.

Both the women's 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams qualified to run in the ECAC championship fields based on today's performances. The 4x100 team won their heat with a time of 46.59 seconds and will run in Friday's final at 12:45 p.m. The 4x400 team finished third in their very competitive heat with a time of 3:42.36 and will run Saturday at 5:50 p.m.

Individually, senior Thema Napier (Columbia, Md.) rebounded with a strong performance in the 400-meter hurdles, placing eighth with a time of 59.23.

Friday will see the first male Terps in action along with more preliminary races for the women's squad. To follow the action, visit www.thepennrelays.com for the most up to date information about the event.

Event 3, Thursday, 10:00 am
CW 400m Hurdles Championship

1. 56.64, Leshinda Demus (South Carolina) 2. 57.52, Frances Santin (Cal State Northridge) 3. 58.10, Tiffany Ross (South Carolina) 4. 58.43, Tacita Bass (South Carolina) 5. 58.81, Shevon Stoddart (South Carolina) 6. 59.08, Chloe Davis (Hampton) 7. 59.10, Aja Farris (Kent State) 8. 59.23, Thema Napier (Maryland) 9. 59.47, Jenna Turner (Duke) 10. 59.59, Eliazbeth Bayne (Pittsburgh) 11. 59.81, Jamillah Wade (Miami (Fla)) 12. 60.36, Justina Barone (Lehigh) 13. 60.45, Tiffany Flomo (North Carolina) 14. 60.95, Ruby Jackson (Seton Hall) 15. 61.05, CeCe Brown (Mississippi State) 16. 61.14, Keely Tharp (Brown) 17. 61.27, Alicia Cave (Houston) 18. 61.88, Sydoney Rowe (Bethune-Cookman) 19. 61.90, Lynnsey Dailey (Seton Hall) 20. 62.02, Althea Thomas (Louisiana State) 21. 62.31, Hasina Outtz (Princeton) 22. 62.34, Shatree'Tia Jones (Kent State) 23. 62.43, Bente General (South Florida) 24. 62.50, Regan Teague (Texas A&M) 25. 62.58, Stacy Dwyer (Syracuse) 26. 62.71, Alison Erzinger (Oklahoma State) 27. 62.72, Linsey Westerman (Slippery Rock) 28. 62.88, Bridget Ingram (Seton Hall) 29. 62.90, Shonda Brown (Cornell) 30. 62.91, Asia Hodgen (Vanderbilt) 31. 62.95, Hannah Garrity (Cornell) 32. 62.99, Pam Richardson (West Virginia) 33. 63.13, Nia Campbell (Tennessee State) 34. 63.16, Christine Huffenbecher (Dickinson) 35. 63.28, Medea Ashton (Morgan State) 36. 63.45, Helenor Wilson (Florida Atlantic) 37. 63.52, Autumn Smith (Vanderbilt) 38. 63.88, Maurika Quarles (Radford) 39. 63.90, Melanie Porterfield (Fairleigh Dickinson) 40. 63.91, Schenavia Felder (West Virginia) 41. 64.01, Eleanor Thompson (Harvard) 42. 64.04, Georgette Lewis (Long Island) 43. 64.06, Helen Walker (Penn State) 44. 64.19, Monica Dela Haya (Houston) 45. 64.32, Danielle Hobson (Rutgers) 46. 64.35, Amanda Shanklin (Harvard) 47. 64.36, Tierra Hicks (Montclair State) 48. 64.41, Victoria Henderson (Harvard) 49. 64.77, Crystal Marsh (Pennsylvania) 50. 64.97, Jen Byrd (Princeton) 51. 65.18, Rebecca Rauth (Yale) 52. 65.24, Karen Kelly (New York Tech) 53. 65.57, Danielle Bobo (Penn State) 54. 65.58, Khadija Shariff (Bucknell) 55. 65.61, Katrina Svoboda (Yale) 56. 65.80, Edwina Brown (Bucknell) 57. 66.09, Katrina Sye (Seton Hall) 58. 66.67, Tyechia Smith (Delaware) 59. 66.78, Petagay Gayle (Alabama) 60. 66.94, Jessica Thomas (Yale) 61. 67.00, Anna-Marie Allander (Pennsylvania) 62. 67.56, Aicia Terry (Pennsylvania)

College Women 4x100m Relays

Event 119, Friday, 12:35 pm CW 4x100m Championship of America

Qualifiers from Event 11 AL Miami (Fla) AM Cal State Northridge AE Indiana AA Florida AC South Carolina AB Louisiana State AD Texas AP Houston

Event 121, Friday, 12:45 pm CW 4x100m (ECAC)

Qualifiers from Event 11 BN Cornell BL West Virginia AX Penn State BH Delaware State AV Seton Hall BB Pittsburgh AY George Mason BK Maryland Alternates: CA Virginia Commonwealth CX Brown

Event 120, Friday, 12:40 pm CW 4x100m (College)

Qualifiers from Event 11 FT Essex CC (NJ) AS Alabama AG Auburn AN St. Augustine's AT Mississippi AH Texas Christian AK Texas Tech AJ Tennessee Alternates: AR Tennessee State BC Georgia Tech

Event 11, Thursday, 12:40 pm CW 4x100m (Heats)

Heat 1 1. 45.42, Houston 2. 45.65, Florida 3. 47.32, Tennessee State 4. 47.65, Memphis 5. 47.70, Cornell 6. 48.24, East Carolina 7. 48.44, Kent State 8. 48.90, Eastern Kentucky 9. 50.07, Long Beach State

Heat 2 1. 45.12, Louisiana State 2. 46.45, St. Augustine's 3. 46.77, Alabama 4. 48.53, Rutgers 5. 48.76, Bethune-Cookman 6. 49.01, Duke 7. 49.43, North Carolina Central 8. 49.70, Texas A&M 9. 54.37, Norfolk State

Heat 3 1. 44.86, South Carolina 2. 45.68, Cal State Northridge 3. 45.96, Mississippi 4. 47.79, Howard 5. 47.81, Virginia Commonwealth 6. 48.17, Savannah State 7. 48.32, Virginia 8. 48.33, Central Connecticut State 9. 57.31, Abilene Christian

Heat 4 1. 45.41, Texas 2. 45.77, Miami (Fla) 3. 46.36, Seton Hall 4. 46.97, Georgia Tech 5. 48.11, Brown 6. 49.31, Maryland/Eastern Shore 7. 49.62, Army 8. 49.63, Liberty 9. 51.96, New York Tech

Heat 5 1. 46.30, Texas Tech 2. 46.43, Pittsburgh 3. 46.61, Auburn 4. 46.88, Delaware State 5. 47.00, Penn State 6. 48.13, Northeastern 7. 49.15, Virginia State 8. 49.26, Navy 9. 50.15, Delaware

Heat 6 1. 45.65, Indiana 2. 46.04, Texas Christian 3. 46.32, Tennessee 4. 46.49, George Mason 5. 46.96, Essex CC (NJ) 6. 48.65, Morgan State 7. 49.03, Lock Haven 8. 49.49, Long Island 9. 51.15, Metropolitana

Heat 7 1. 47.57, Tulane 2. 48.91, Binghamton 3. 48.98, Akron 4. 49.32, Yale 5. 49.67, St. John's 6. 49.93, Fairleigh Dickinson 7. 51.85, Richard Stockton 8. 52.12, Saint Paul's dnf, North Carolina/Charlotte

Heat 8 1. 46.59, Maryland 2. 47.00, West Virginia 3. 48.38, Alabama at Birmingham 4. 48.41, Marshall 5. 49.09, Mississippi State 6. 49.88, Pennsylvania 7. 50.34, Lehman 8. 50.36, Southern Connecticut State 9. 51.06, Western Maryland

Heat 9 1. 49.29, Monmouth 2. 50.01, Rutgers/Camden 3. 50.46, Widener 4. 50.60, St. Joseph's 5. 50.88, Vermont 6. 51.17, Wagner 7. 51.56, Lehigh 8. 52.19, Mount St. Mary's 9. 53.58, City College of New York

Heat 10 1. 49.49, Maine 2. 50.15, Rhode Island 3. 50.52, Virginia Union 4. 50.75, Dickinson 5. 51.80, Hartwick 6. 52.15, Gettysburg 7. 52.66, Towson 8. 52.81, Sacred Heart 9. 54.20, West Chester

Heat 11 1. 50.72, Susquehanna 2. 50.84, Ursinus 3. 51.56, Albright 4. 51.67, Ithaca 5. 52.11, New York University 6. 52.12, Millersville dnf, St. Francis (Pa.)

College Women 4x400m Relays

Event 273, Saturday, 6:05 pm CW 4x400m Championship of America

Qualifiers from Events 56 through 69 A South Carolina B Tennessee C Texas D Seton Hall E Miami (Fla) F Texas Tech G Florida H Cal State Northridge

Event 270, Saturday, 5:50 pm CW 4x400m (ECAC)

Qualifiers from Events 56 through 69 A Maryland B Georgetown C Pittsburgh D Cornell E Delaware State F Morgan State G Brown H Coppin State Alternates: J Navy K Bucknell

Event 59, Thursday, 5:10 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:35.70, South Carolina Shevon Stoddard, Tiffany Ross, Tacita Bass, Dee Washington 2. 3:39.66, Texas Tech 3. 3:42.20, Houston 4. 3:42.98, Pittsburgh 5. 3:47.19, Texas Christian 6. 3:48.91, Hampton 7. 3:53.60, Bethune-Cookman 8. 3:54.76, Long Island

Event 60, Thursday, 5:15 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:36.03, Tennessee Antoinette Gorham, Kameisha Bennett, Nicole Cook, Dee Dee Trotter 2. 3:36.72, Texas 3. 3:42.46, Maryland 4. 3:45.60, Delaware State 5. 3:48.74, Tennessee State 6. 3:49.19, Abilene Christian 7. 3:52.05, George Mason 8. 3:58.06, Tulane 9. 3:58.97, Mississippi State 10. 4:02.58, Long Beach State

Event 61, Thursday, 5:20 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:39.82, Florida Amber Robinson, Nona Allen, Yolanda Thompson, Faith Rein 2. 3:40.41, Cal State Northridge 3. 3:42.66, Georgetown 4. 3:47.93, Kent State 5. 3:49.38, Bucknell 6. 3:50.45, South Florida 7. 3:50.54, Mississippi 8. 3:57.90, Texas A&M

Event 62, Thursday, 5:25 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:40.45, North Carolina Edi Altuen, Anissa Gainey, Lyndsay Bond, Tiffany Flomo 2. 3:41.82, St. Augustine's 3. 3:42.87, Louisiana State 4. 3:46.05, Clemson 5. 3:48.73, Coppin State 6. 3:50.66, Howard 7. 3:54.05, Wheaton 8. 3:54.07, East Carolina 9. 3:54.33, Rutgers

Event 63, Thursday, 5:30 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:37.76, Seton Hall Nolle Graham, Leah Grant, Sophie Smellie, Henrietta George 2. 3:38.39, Miami (Fla) 3. 3:40.44, Indiana 4. 3:44.08, Turabo (Puerto Rico) 5. 3:51.60, New York Tech 6. 3:51.74, West Virginia 7. 3:52.70, Vanderbilt 8. 3:56.21, Alabama at Birmingham

Event 64, Thursday, 5:35 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:46.12, Morgan State Kady Joseph, Shawna Stephens, Octavia McKay, Stacey Holmes 2. 3:50.29, North Carolina Central 3. 3:50.70, Marshall 4. 3:51.60, Connecticut 5. 3:52.92, Findlay 6. 3:54.27, William & Mary 7. 3:57.02, Army 8. 3:57.57, Liberty

Event 65, Thursday, 5:40 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:50.73, Monmouth Brianna Cute, Melissa Sahario, Talitha Vickers, Suraya Kornegay 2. 3:54.91, Buffalo 3. 3:55.08, Akron 4. 3:57.07, Charleston Southern 5. 3:57.59, Penn State 6. 4:00.80, Delaware

Event 66, Thursday, 5:45 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:53.03, Binghamton Aniecia Modeste, Marie Lloyd, Larisa Least, Nathalee McKenzie 2. 3:55.26, York (NY) 3. 3:55.79, Maryland/Baltimore Co. 4. 3:56.09, St. John's 5. 4:01.61, St. Francis (Pa) 6. 4:05.27, Fairleigh Dickinson

Event 67, Thursday, 5:50 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:56.19, St. Joseph's Mary Korfmacher, Brooke Gilliford, Yasmin Copleand, Sarah Conway 2. 3:56.35, Shippensburg 3. 3:56.78, Central Connecticut State 4. 4:02.01, Temple 5. 4:02.82, Southern Connecticut State 6. 4:05.48, Savannah State 7. 4:05.51, Wagner 8. 4:06.11, Vermont

Event 68, Thursday, 5:55 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:58.78, Kutztown Janelle Kostishion, Sara Otis, Jamie Young, Emily Foltz 2. 3:59.19, Lafayette 3. 3:59.31, Hartwick 4. 3:59.59, Fordham 5. 4:02.27, Virginia State 6. 4:02.60, Boston University 7. 4:02.74, Muskingum 8. 4:05.59, Towson 9. 4:08.70, College of New Jersey 10. 4:10.25, Lehigh

Event 69, Thursday, 6:00 pm CW 4x400m

1. 3:54.69, Lock Haven Melissa Namey, Sandy Ritz, Katrin Olsen, Jennifer Farrow 2. 3:57.50, East Stroudsburg 3. 3:58.35, Robert Morris 4. 4:04.13, Millersville 5. 4:04.98, Rutgers/Camden 6. 4:07.06, Marist 7. 4:07.99, Oneonta 8. 4:15.44, West Chester 9. 4:18.14, Coast Guard 10. 4:18.33, Westfield State 11. 4:19.24, Ithaca

Event 296, Thursday, 4:00 pm CW Eastern Long Jump

1. 6.10 (20-00.25), Viktoriya Rybalko (Maine) 2. 5.97 (19-07.00), Jill Croft (Massachusetts/Lowell) 3. 5.90 (19-04.25), LaToya Phillips (George Mason) 4. 5.81 (19-00.75), Chi Chi Aduba (Penn State) 5. 5.72 (18-09.25), Christine Brown (West Virginia) 6. 5.71 (18-08.75), Heather Houston (Maryland) 7. 5.67 (18-07.25), Tianna Goldring (Norfolk State) 8. 5.54 (18-02.25), Aprelle Watkins (Syracuse) 9. 5.49 (18-00.25), Char Lewis (James Madison) 10. 5.47 (17-11.50), Caroline Harvey (Virginia) 11. 5.44 (17-10.25), Alina Abramova (St. John's) 12. 5.41 (17-09.00), Kathy Messner (Penn State) 13. 5.40 (17-08.75), Corri Allen (George Mason) 14. 5.40 (17-08.75), Gee Kern (Penn State) 15. 5.37 (17-07.50), Kim Morgan (George Mason) 16. 5.37 (17-07.50), Lamoy Stephens (Pittsburgh) 17. 5.32 (17-05.50), Sherise Green (Howard CC) 18. 5.27 (17-03.50), Maisha Tyler (St. Joseph's) 19. 5.26 (17-03.25), Axum Gaines (St. John's) 20. 5.22 (17-01.50), Keisha Riley (New York Tech) 21. 5.14 (16-10.50), Susan Coltman (Princeton) 22. 5.06 (16-07.25), Pascale Delaunay (Rhode Island) 23. 5.04 (16-06.50), Sophie Sylvain (St. John's) 24. 4.96 (16-03.25), Mary Jones (New Jersey City)

Event 288, Thursday, 1:45 pm CW Eastern Shot Put

1. 13.98 (45-10.50), Nacole Moore (Montclair State) 2. 13.86 (45-05.75), Heather Oldham (Massachusetts/Lowell) 3. 13.40 (43-11.75), Ashlyn Horn (Morgan State) 4. 13.37 (43-10.50), Melinda Boykin (Villanova) 5. 13.28 (43-07.00), Tracy Ojeniyi (Maryland) 6. 13.24 (43-05.25), Lexi Benamati (Penn State) 7. 13.22 (43-04.50), Enjoli Edwards (Massachusetts/Lowell) 8. 13.13 (43-01.00), Amanda Walker (Pittsburgh) 9. 12.87 (42.02.75), Sara Fields (Army) 10. 12.48 (40-11.50), Megan Verdeyen (Dartmouth) 11. 12.44 (40-09.75), Yasmin Deliz (Lehigh) 12. 12.43 (40-09.50), Faith Thompson (Buffalo) 13. 12.41 (40-08.75), Dana White (Fairleigh Dickinson) 14. 12.34 (43-09.25), Tonia Sabino (Pennsylvania) 15. 12.20 (40-00.50), Kateema Riettie (Southern Connecticut State) 16. 12.15 (39-10.50), Renata Williams (Hartwick) 17. 12.13 (39-09.75), Sylvia Taggart (Villanova) 18. 12.10 (39-08.50), Sarah Herskee (Cornell) 19. 11.87 (38-11.50), Sara Lovell (Vermont) 20. 11.03 (36-02.25), Sonrisa Garcia (Long Island) 21. 10.97 (36-00.00), Candice Schultz (Rutgers) 22. 10.87 (35-08.00), Kaia Durrant-Nairne (Maryland/Eastern Shore) No Mark: Erica Timmons (Slippery Rock)

Event 290, Thursday, 2:15 pm CW Hammer Throw

1. 58.81 (192-11), Laura Gerraughty (North Carolina) 2. 57.27 (187-10), Sarah Fletcher (Buffalo) 3. 55.92 (183-05), April Phillips (Michigan) 4. 54.68 (179-05), Adriane Blewitt (Ashland) 5. 54.28 (178-01), Erin Gilreath (Florida) 6. 54.00 (177-02), LaQuanda Cotten (Florida) 7. 53.79 (176-05), Jocelyn Schineller (Florida) 8. 53.03 (173-11), Ruth Kura (Maryland) 9. 52.86 (173-05), Amarilys Almestica (Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras) 10. 52.61 (172-07), Amy Parulis (North Carolina) 11. 52.24 (171-05), Naomi Elliott (Alabama) 12. 51.70 (169-07), DeShaya Williams (Penn State) 13. 51.55 (169-01), Natalie Grant (Harvard) 14. 51.54 (169-01), Beth Weyer (Kent State) 15. 51.31 (168-04), Kate Johnston (Penn State) 16. 51.00 (167-04), Johanna Doyle (Harvard) 17. 50.91 (167-00), Rachel Longfers (Florida) 18. 50.71 (166-04), Aisha Smith (Kentucky) 19. 50.56 (165-10), Jeane Cornoles (Rutgers) 20. 49.60 (162-09), Aisle Grant (South Carolina) 21. 49.58 (162-08), Megan Verdeyen (Dartmouth) 22. 49.43 (162-02), Angela Levens (Georgia Tech) 23. 49.05 (160-11), Kameilah Amaya (Memphis) 24. 48.78 (160-00), Donielle Swany (Kent State) 25. 48.78 (160-00), Claire Inskeep (Rutgers) 26. 48.72 (159-10), Maria Garcia (Bucknell) 27. 47.03 (154-03), Margaret Clayton (East Carolina) 28. 46.90 (153-10), Sarah Herskee (Cornell) 29. 46.69 (153-02), Faith Thompson (Buffalo) 30. 45.43 (149-00), Inhar Chang (Virginia) No Height: Mamee Groover (South Carolina), Katie Shannon (Pennsylvania), Brandy Bradford (St. John's), Amy Parkosewich (Connecticut)