T-Birds Take Advantage of Last Qualifying meet

T-Birds Take Advantage of Last Qualifying meet

New National Qualifying Marks: 8

Improved Qualifying Marks: 7

Event Champions- 3

Notes: The T-Birds took advantage of the last chance qualifier at Texas Tech on Friday. The team added eight new national qualifying marks and improved on seven. On top of this the team had three event winners.

Monique Grant and Rushellee Jones completed the events for the pentathlon during the meet. Their scores for the five events added up to put them in the top of the NJCAA in the pentathlon and should qualify them for nationals in the pentathlon. Currently, Monique's score of 3482 sets her number one on the NJCAA and Rushellee sets 14^th with 2555 points.

Up Next: NJCAA Indoor Nationals, March 1^st and 2^nd in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Results:           

60M                 Yanique Dayle                         7.64                  Improved Qualifier

                        Demisha Roswell                     7.71                  Improved Qualifier

                        Kristal Liburd                         7.77                  National Qualifier

Kelliesha King                         7.79                  National Qualifier

Jehnelle Gayle                          7.95

Makayla McNeal                      8.37                 

200M               Raheema Westfall                   24.19                Improved Qualifier

                        Yanique Dayle                         24.91                Improved Qualifier

                        Kelliesha King                          25.65

                        Rachael Crutcher                       25.69

                        Jehnelle Gayle                          26.01

                        Angel Johnson                          26.13

400M               Erin Sermons                          55.57                Improved Qualifier                     

                        Moisha Barnes                        58.77                National Qualifier

                        Rachael Crutcher                    58.87                National Qualifier

                        Angel Johnson                          1:03.22

600M               Machiyla Knight                       1:40.47

800M               Monique Grant                          2:41.26

                        Rushellee Jones                        3:34.77

1000M             Dune Costes                            3:04.47             National Qualifier

                        Britnie Dixon                           3:09.16             National Qualifier

                        Montserret Rios                      3:13.17             National Qualifier

                        Alyssa Frausto                          3:18.21

3000M             Dune Costes                            10:55.80           Improved Qualifier                     

60M Hurdles     Demisha Roswell                      8.47                 

Monique Grant                        8.82                  National Qualifier

Rushellee Jones                        9.87

4 x 400M          1^st Place                                   3:48.34             Improved Qualifier

                        Barnes-58.97, Sermons-55.17, Westfall-58.10, Grant-56.12

Long Jump       Monique Grant                          17'11"

                        Sametria Smith                         16'5 ¾"

                        Rushellee Jones                        15'11"

                        Ciera Mackey                           15'7 ½"

Triple Jump      Kristal Liburd                           39'9 ¾"           

High Jump        1^st Place Monique Grant          5'2 ¼"

Rushellee Jones                        5' ¼"

Sametria Smith                         4'8 ¼"

Pole Vault        Victoria Villanueva                   12'9 ½"

Shot Put            1^st Place Siyu Gu                      47' ¼" 

                        Taylor Vuelvas                         36'4"

                        Monique Grant                          35'1 ¾"

                        Rushellee Jones                        33' ½"

                        Sametria Smith                         27'6 ½"           

Weight Throw   Brianna Brock                           49'9"

                        Taylor Vuelvas                         37'5 ¼"

Composite Pentathlon

            Monique Grant- 3482 points

            Rushellee Jones- 2555 points