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May 26, 2006
Twelve Track Athletes Set to Compete at NCAA Mideast Regional
Knoxville, Tenn. -- Twelve Horizon
League Champions will represent the
Youngstown State track and field
program at the NCAA Mideast Regional
beginning today at the University of
Tennessee.
The group of six sprinters and six field performers is the
most to ever compete at the regional
in school history, and Jarrod Davis
is the first YSU thrower to qualify
for the Regional before earning the
conference crown.
Davis enters the meet ranked 17th in the hammer with the top
mark in YSU history at 191 feet, 2
inches that he threw at the Horizon
League Championship two weeks ago.
Davis had hit the qualifying
standard of 182-5 at the All-Ohio
Championship on April 8 before
posting his best distance at the
league meet. A native of East
Canton, Ohio, Davis also won the
javelin at the league meet and holds
the 17th-best entering mark at
175-5.
Freshman and Leetonia, Ohio, native Aaron Merrill earned the
right to compete in the shot put by
winning the event at the Horizon
League Championship with a
school-record mark of 53-10 1/4,
which ranks him 29th entering the
regional meet. Freshman Marty Vieth
won the high jump title at the
league meet and ranks 18th with a
mark of 6-3 1/4, and senior Derek
Riker enters ranked 18th in the pole
vault after posting a winning mark
of 15-5 at the league meet.
Sophomore thrower Bethany Anderson earned a chance to compete
in two events by winning the shot
put and hammer at the Horizon League
Championship two weeks ago and leads
a group of eight women competing at
the meet. Anderson, a native of
Jamestown, N.Y. enters ranked 35th
in the shot put with a mark of 45-0
1/2 and 28th in the hammer with a
mark of 175-1 1/2. She will be
joined by fellow thrower Katy
Williams, who won the discus with a
mark of 135-3 and enters ranked
24th.
The women's sprints will be YSU's largest group competing
with six different athletes taking
the blocks. Danielle Bolt won the
league title in the 100m dash and
enters with a 38th-ranked time of
11.94 seconds and will anchor the
4x100m relay that also includes
Jeanna Cunningham, Katie Betts and
Yandeh Joh. Joh, Betts and
Cunningham will join Kari Kreutzfeld
in the 4x400m relay. Senior Satara
Freeman is the final qualifier and
enters ranked 31st in the 100m
hurdles with a time of 14.35 that
earned her the top spot at the
league meet.
The top five finishers in each event at the regional earn an
automatic bid to compete at the NCAA
Championships in Sacramento, Calif.,
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