Three Former Canes Advance at US Championships
June 23, 2011
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EUGENE, Ore. – Three former University of Miami track and field student-athletes advanced to their respective semifinal rounds in the first day of action at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field.
Recent graduates Ti’erra Brown and Takecia Jameson each moved on to the next round of the 400m hurdles. Brown, who is just two weeks removed from winning an NCAA title in this same event, won the first of four preliminary round heats in 56.47 seconds. She is the reigning U.S. champion in the event.
Jameson, who earned second-team All-America honors in Des Moines, placed third in the fourth and final prelim heat in 57.98 seconds. The duo will race in one of two semifinal heats Friday at 7:45 p.m. EST. The top two finishers from each heat – plus the next two fastest times— will advance to the finals.
Former world champion and NCAA national champion Lauryn Williams was third in the second of four prelim heats in the 100m dash at 11.18 seconds. Williams will compete in the semifinal round Friday evening at 9 p.m. EST.
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.
Four other current Canes will also be participating in the U.S. Junior Track and Field Championships, which will 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.
Williams, Brown, Jameson and Hill are each 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.
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