Women's Track Ranked 12th In Nation
Jan. 25, 2005
Coral Gables, Fla. (hurricanesports.com) – The University of Miami women’s track and field team is ranked 12th in the nation in the latest top-25 rankings by Trackwire.com.
The Hurricanes are fresh off their victory at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Track and Field Meet in Houston, Texas. Miami defeated 14 schools including fourth-ranked Texas.Miami was led by senior Kim Barrett (Miami Gulliver Prep) who won the weight throw and shot put, and sophomore Brenda Faluade (Katy, Texas) who won both the long jump and triple jump.
Barrett captured the weight throw with a school-record and NCAA automatic qualifying mark of 20.77 meters (68-01.75). Her throw shattered the old school-record of 17.13 meters by nearly 12 feet.
Barrett led a 1-2-3 Miami sweep in the weight throw as Akera Latham (Miami Southridge) finished second with a mark of 17.71 meters (58-01.25) and Khadija Talley (Benning, Ga.) took third with a toss of 17.49 meters (57-04.75).
Barrett also set a school-record in winning the shot put posting an NCAA provisional mark of 16.52 meters (54-02.50).
Faluade, who earned All-America honors in both the long jump and triple jump last season, won the long jump with a leap of 6.11 meters (20-00.50) and the triple jump with a mark of 13.04 meters (42-09.50). Both marks provisionally qualify her for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Other individual winners included All-American Wiande Moore (Spring, Texas) who won the 60-meters with an NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 7.37 seconds, five-time All-American Charlette Greggs (Miami Northwestern) who won the 400-meters in an NCAA provisional time of 54.62 seconds and Melanie Schultz (Davison, Mich.) who captured the Mile Run in a time of 4:55.52.
TRACKWIRE 25(1-25-05)1. Tennessee, 512. LSU, 473. Florida, 414.Texas, 314. Stanford, 314. Michigan, 317. UCLA, 307. South Carolina 309. Kansas State, 2110. Arizona State, 2011. Notre Dame, 1912. Nebraska, 1712. Miami, 1714. BYU, 1615. Georgia Tech, 1515. Villanova, 1517. Florida State, 1417. North Carolina 1417. Cal Poly, 1420. West Virginia, 1020. Georgia, 1020. Baylor, 1020. Clemson, 1024. Cal, 824. Northern Arizona, 824. Maryland, 824. Colorado State, 824. Duke, 8
