HURRICANES WIN ACC OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP
April 23, 2005
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (hurricanesports.com) – Junior All-American Charlette Greggs (Miami Northwestern) won both the 200-meters and 400-meters Saturday to help lead the eighth-ranked University of Miami women’s track and field team to the team title at ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Tallahassee, Fla.
Miami recorded six individual event victories this weekend to finishwith 142 points, 20 points ahead of second-place North Carolina. Miami sweeps the ACC Track and Field titles in their first year in the league. The Hurricanes won the ACC Indoor Track and Field title earlier this season.
Greggs won the 400-meters with a time of 52.08, the fastest time by a collegian and the fifth-fastest in the world this season. Greggs, the 2005 ACC Indoor champion at 400-meters, led three Hurricane runners in the top-4 of the outdoor event. Sophomore All-American Ginou Etienne (Miami Central) finished third with a time or 53.58 seconds, while senior All-American Wiande Moore (Spring, Texas) placed fourth with a time of 54.62 seconds.
Greggs later won the 200-meters with a time of 23.06 seconds. Freshman All-American Lauren Austin finished sixth in the 200-meters with a time of 24.36 seconds.
Junior All-American Dominique Darden (Harrisburg, Pa.) captured the 400-meter hurdles title with a time of 56.02 seconds. Darden’s winning time set an all-time ACC Conference record as well as a new meet and school record.
Darden also placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.47 seconds.
Junior Melanie Schultz (Davison, Mich.) pulled off one of the most impressive performances of the meet recording two school-records and two NCAA regional qualifying marks. Schultz placed fourth in the 1500-meters posting a school-record and NCAA Regional qualifying time of 4:26.03. Schultz shattered the UM record bettering the old mark by more than threeseconds.
She later placed fifth in the 5000-meters with a school-record and NCAA Regional mark of 16:44.10. Schulz, who had never competed in the 5000-meters before Saturday, broke the old UM record by more than 12 seconds, a record that had lasted since 1990.
In the triple jump, sophomore All-American Tabia Charles (Pickering, Ontario) placed second with a leap of 13.21 meters (43-04.25) while sophomore Amy Seward (Virginia Beach, Va.) finished seventh with a markof 12.34 meters (40-06.00).
Junior All-American India Ransom (Largo, Md.) placed second in what turned out to be the 90-meter dash with a time of 10.42 seconds. Therace, which was supposed to be 100-meters long, was started at the incorrect starting point. Due to time constraints the race was not re-run.
The women’s 4×100-meter relay of Charles, Moore, Darden and Ransom placed second with a time of 44.57 seconds.
MIAMI ACC INDIVIDUAL EVENT CHAMPIONS200-meters Charlette Greggs400-meters Charlette Greggs400-hurdles Dominique DardenShot Put Kimberli BarrettHammer Kimberli BarrettHeptahtlon Amber Williams
