Lady Braves Grab Second At Southeast Region Championship
HICKORY – Senior Jessica McDowell registered an NCAA Provisional Qualifying Mark and tied the school record with a leap of 5.69m in the long jump en route to first place honors to help the UNCP women's track and field team capture a second place finish at the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championships on Saturday on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne.
The Braves logged 124 points at the event to finish ahead of 11 other squads, but exited Hickory with runner-up honors behind King College. Region rivals Anderson, Queens and Wingate rounded out the top five.
McDowell contributed a stellar performance on the day with a trip to the finals of the long jump moments before running the 100m hurdles with a time of 15.89 seconds for another first place finish. She set a new track record in the 100m hurdles preliminaries with a time of 15.36 seconds and entered the starting blocks nearly a minute after running the 100m hurdles finals in order to compete in the 100m dash where she place third with a time of 12.50 seconds. McDowell also picked up a third place finish in the 200m dash with a time of 26.03 seconds and was a member of the 4x100m relay team (Chantalle Williams, Kyera Tennyson, Olivia Mack, McDowell) that took home second place honors with a time of 48.74 seconds for a new season best time.
Tennyson cleaned up awards as well, finishing atop the field in the high jump with a clearing mark of 1.60m on Friday only to return and earn first place honors in the 400m dash with a time of 57.39 seconds for a season best run on day two. Tennyson placed third in the long jump with a new personal-best mark of 5.27m for a third place finish.
Senior Katherine Davis grabbed a first place finish in the discus throw with a throw of 37.77m and a third place finish in the shot put with a mark of 12.04m. Katherine Davis posted a sixth-place finish in the javelin throw with a new personal-record mark of 24.30m on Friday. Diricka Mitchell placed fifth in the hammer throw with a mark of 36.36m, sixth in the shot put with a throw of 10.65m and seventh in the discus throw with a mark of 30.88m. Nicole Hill placed sixth in the hammer throw with a throw of 34.96m.
Livia Mahaffie did some cleaning up of her own with a third place finish and new personal record in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 11:47.05, a sixth place finish in the 5000m with a time of 19:40.38 and a ninth place finish in the 1500m run with a time of 5:04.97. Janay Moore captured a second place finish in the 800m dash to set a new personal best with a time of 2:21.68, while Mack grabbed a sixth place finish in the 400m dash with a time of 1:01.76.
The 4x400m relay team (Mack, Moore, Woodi Jones, Ashlee Doughty) ran a fourth place finish with a time of 4:13.90.
The women's track and field team has concluded their season with a select few athletes continuing competition at the Duke Twilight Invitational on May 8.
BRAVES' RESULTS
Women's Hammer Throw
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5 Diricka Mitchell 36.36m
6 Nicole Hill 34.96m
Katherine Davis FOUL
Women's Javelin Throw
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6 Katherine Davis 24.30m
12 Jamaisha Ward 18.11m
13 Nicole Hill 17.08m
Women's High Jump
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1 Kyera Tennyson 1.60m
Women's 10,000m Run
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10 Woodi Jones 42:29.96
12 Blair Long 44:31.04
16 Elizabeth Metzger 46:37.56
Women's Long Jump
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1 Jessica McDowell 5.69m
3 Kyera Tennyson 5.27m
Jessica Tulud FOUL
Women's Discus Throw
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1 Katherine Davis 37.77m
7 Diricka Mitchell 30.88m
13 Nicole Hill 28.76m
23 Jamaisha Ward 19.70m
Women's Shot Put
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3 Katherine Davis 12.04m
6 Diricka Mitchell 10.65m
11 Nicole Hill 9.70m
12 Jamaisha Ward 9.69m
Women's 100m Hurdles - Prelims
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1 Jessica McDowell 15.36 seconds
Women's 100m Hurdles - Finals
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1 Jessica McDowell 15.89 seconds
Women's 100m Dash - Prelims
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4 Jessica McDowell 12.62 seconds
10 Olivia Mack 13.05 seconds
18 Chantalle Williams 13.50 seconds
Women's 100m Dash - Finals
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3 Jessica McDowell 12.50 seconds
Women's 3000m Steeplechase
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3 Livia Mahaffie 11:47.05
9 Catherine Shoemaker 13:47.16
Women's 4x100m Relay
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2 UNC Pembroke 48.74 seconds
Chantalle Williams, Kyera Tennyson, Olivia Mack, Jessica McDowell
Women's 1500m Run
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9 Livia Mahaffie 5:04.97
15 Ashlee Doughty 5:11.78
23 Blair Long 5:52.80
Women's 400m Dash
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1 Kyera Tennyson 57.39 seconds
6 Olivia Mack 1:01.76
Women's 800m Run
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2 Janay Moore 2:21.68
14 Ashlee Doughty 2:33.60
Women's 200m Dash
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3 Jessica McDowell 26.03 seconds
15 Chantalle Williams 27.90 seconds
Women's 5000m Run
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6 Livia Mahaffie 19:40.38
27 Elizabeth Metzger 22:39.26
30 Catherine Shoemaker 23:39.76
Women's 4x400m Relay
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4 UNC Pembroke 4:13.90
Olivia Mack, Janay Moore, Woodi Jones, Ashlee Doughty
Team Standings
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1 King 138 points
2 UNC Pembroke 124 points
3 Anderson (S.C.) 117.50 points
4 Mount Olive 82 points
5 Wingate 81 points
6 Lees-McRae 58 points
7 Clayton State48 points
8 Lenoir-Rhyne 41.50 points
9 Mars Hill 30 points
10 Queens 20 points
11 Carson-Newman 6 points
12 Spartenburg Methodist 5 points
13 Erskine 2 points
