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)