Hurricanes Capture First Big East Indoor Title
Feb. 23, 2003
SYRACUSE, NY – The University of Miami women’strack and field team won five events and scored in nine others to run awaywith BIG EAST Indoor Track and Field Championship in Syracuse, NY.
Miami, which has won four of the last five BIG EAST Outdoor titles,recorded 157.50 points to capture its first BIG EAST Indoor title indominating fashion. Notre Dame finished second with 120 points.
“I thought we had a lot of people step up for us today,” said headcoach Amy Deem, who was named BIG EAST Coach of the Year following the meet.”Kitoya (Carter) was outstanding and our young kids really ran well.”
Leading the Hurricanes were sophomore All-American Lauryn Williams(Rochester, PA), freshman Charlette Greggs (Miami Northwestern) and juniorAll-American Kitoya Carter (Miami Northwestern).
Williams won the 60-meter title for the second consecutive seasonwith a time of 7.31. Williams, who missed breaking the BIG EAST record by.01, led four Hurricane finishers in the top-6. Freshman India Ransom(Largo, MD) finished third with a time of 7.56 while senior Gina Harris, whowon the BIG EAST long jump title on Saturday, took fourth (7.59). SophomoreWiande Moore (Spring, TX) placed sixth (7.63).
Greggs, competing in her first BIG EAST Championship, led 1-2-3Hurricane sweep in the 200-meters registering an NCAA qualifying time of23.61. Williams, last seasons BIG EAST 200-meter champion, finished second(23.99) while freshman Dominique Darden (Harrisburg, PA) placed third(24.10).
“Charlette’s performance was very impressive given this was herfirst BIG EAST meet and she had never run indoor track until this season,”said Deem. “She has continued to improve every meet.”
Carter captured her first BIG EAST individual title winning the400-meters in a time of 54.77. With the victory Carter becomes the firstHurricane in school-history to win the BIG EAST 400-meter title. Alsoscoring in the 400-meters were senior All-Americans Jamillah Wade(Philadelphia, PA) and Sashanie Simpson (Miami, FL). Wade finished sixth(55.87) while Simpson placed eighth (56.90).
Simpson, Wade, Carter and Greggs later teamed up to with the4x400-meter relay. The foursome recorded a BIG EAST record time of 3:38.32in defeating second-place Seton Hall by more than four seconds.
In the shot put, junior Jennifer Penrose (Mesa, AZ) placed secondwith a school-record and NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 15.66 meters(51-04.50). Her toss broke her own school-record by over a foot. Alsoscoring in the shot put was junior Adrienne Moss (Miami Southridge) whofinished fourth with a throw of 14.99 meters (49-02.25).
Miami had three women score in the 60-meter hurdles led by seniorSharianne Lawson (Palm Beach Lakes) who took second with a time of 8.40.Sophomore Amber Williams (Succasunna, NJ) placed fourth (8.59) with Dardentaking fifth (8.61).
Amber Williams scored in four events over the weekend. Williams, whoplaced second in the pentathlon and sixth in the long jump on Saturday, alsotook eighth in the high jump on Sunday with a jump of 1.59 meters (5-02.50).
The Hurricanes received nine points in the 500-meters with seniorAll-American Saraque Whittaker (Ft. Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas) takingfifth (1:13.47) and junior Terria Madison (Columbus, GA) placing fifth(1:13.75).
Senior Patricia Pearson (Jacksonville, FL) placed second in the800-meters with a time of 2:09.76, and ran the anchor leg of the 4×800-meterrelay along with Madison, Whittaker and freshman Zully Marie Pascual, thatplaced seventh (9:07.39).
