Canes Well-Represented at USA Outdoor Championships
June 22, 2011
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami track and field program will have eight current and former student-athletes competing in this week’s 2011 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
World Champion and nine-time All-America performer Lauryn Williams will be competing in both the 100 and 200m dashes where she currently holds the seventh and fourth fastest times in the country respectively.
Williams, currently the Life Skills – Community Relations Coordinator at the University of Miami’s Department of Athletics will compete in the 100m dash first round Thursday at 8:20 p.m. EST.
Ti’erra Brown will look to defend her U.S. championship crown in the 400m hurdles. In 2010, Brown became the first UM woman to win a U.S. individual title and is just two weeks removed from winning an NCAA Championship in the event.
Her defense will begin Thursday at 7:15 p.m. EST with first round heats. The Hampton, Va. native will be joined by Takecia Jameson, a Second-Team All-America performer at this year’s NCAA Championships in the 400m hurdles.
Devon Hill just wrapped up his junior season for the Canes, where he earned Second-Team All-America honors and won an ACC Championship in the 110m hurdles. Beginning on Friday at 6:45 p.m. EST, the Trenton, N.J. native will look to earn his first U.S. championship medal.
Williams, Brown, Jameson and Hill will each be competing for top three finishes in their respective events, earning an automatic spot on the USA World Championship roster that will compete in Daegu, South Korea Aug. 27-Sept. 4.
Four other current Canes will also be participating in the U.S. Junior Track and Field Championships held concurrently with the senior nationals.
Rising sophomores Lindsi Arrington, Brooke Dovell, Nicole Cummings and Luke Fontaine will all be opening their championships on Friday.
Dovell, the Canes top 5,000m runner this season will compete in the event final at 1:10 p.m. EST, while Arrington and Fontaine will race in the 1,500m run semifinals at 1:30 and 1:45 p.m. EST respectively.
Cummings is scheduled for a 2:45 p.m. EST start in the long jump trials and finals, an event where she reached the team’s season-best mark of 6.03m (19-09.50) at the ACC Championships.
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