14 Hurricanes Earn All-ACC Track and Field Honors
April 26, 2006
Coral Gables, Fla. (hurricanesports.com) – Twelve members of the University of Miami women’s track and field team and two members of the Hurricanes’ men’s track and field squad earned All-ACC honors in 16 events at the ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Leading the way for the Hurricanes were four student-athletes who garnered All-ACC recognition to two events including junior Tabia Charles (Pickering, Ont.), senior Dominique Darden (Harrisburg, Pa.), senior Charlette Greggs (Miami Northwestern) and sophomore Lance Leggett (Bartow, Fla.).
Charles, a seven-time All-American, won both the long jump and triple jump to help the UM women win their second consecutive ACC Outdoor title. Greggs, an 11-time All-American, was also a dual winner placing first in both the 200-meters and 400-meters. With the two wins Greggs became the first person, male or female, in league history to win both events in consecutive seasons.
Darden, a 12-time All-American, won the 400-hurdles for the second consecutive season and placed third in 100-hurdles.
Leggett, competing in his first season on the men’s track and field team, won the ACC 400-hurdle title and placed second in the 110-hurdles by a mere one-one hundredth of a second.
Sophomore All-American Tim Harris (Miami Booker T. Washington) was also an event champion placing first in the 800-meters. Harris also won the ACC Indoor title at 800-meters earlier this year.
Others earning All-ACC honors include freshman Viktoria Andonova (Coral Springs) in the high jump, junior All-American Ginou Etienne (Miami Central) in the 400-meters, junior All-American Brenda Faluade (Katy, Texas) in the triple jump, sophomore Akera Lathan (Miami Southridge) in the shot put, freshman Ena Leufroy (Atlanta, Ga.) in the 800-meters, freshman Kaitlin Nazario (Dover, N.J.) in the javelin, senior All-American India Ransom (Largo, Md.) in the 100-meters, junior Amy Seward (Virginia Beach, Va.) in the heptathlon, and sophomore Khadija Talley (Benning, Ga.) in the discus.
