@CanesTrack Ready for ACC Championships
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami track and field team will compete against fellow conference members at the 2017 ACC Outdoor Championships.
The three-day meet will showcase the best track and field student-athletes in the ACC, competing Friday through Sunday at the George C. Griffin Track & Field Facility on the Georgia Tech campus. The 19th-ranked Miami’s women’s team enters the conference meet as the two-time defending ACC indoor champion and will look to carry their indoor success over to the outdoor track, while the Hurricane men will look to build off their program-best performance from a year ago.
The Hurricane women will be led by a trio of seniors looking to shine at the conference meet for the final time in their careers.
Shakima Wimbley will look to win her fourth straight ACC Championship in the 200m, as well as more gold medals in the 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m. Wimbley, a senior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, enters this year’s Championship as one of the most decorated student-athletes in ACC Track and Field history with a combined five conference outdoor championships in the women’s 200 and 400 meters. The Miami standout has piled up similar accolades during her indoor career, and claimed a gold medal while running an ACC-record time in the 400 at the NCAA Indoor Championship two months ago at College Station, Texas.
Ebony Morrison, who won the ACC Indoor Championship in the 60m hurdles, will look to win gold in the 100m hurdles after taking silver a year ago. Morrison leads the ACC with a time of 12.96 seconds that ranks ninth in the NCAA this year.
Aiyanna Stiverne will look to score in the 200m and 400m, as well as on Miami’s 4x100m and 4x400m relays, after playing a key role for the Canes indoors this season and at the 2016 ACC Outdoor Championships, Stiverne ranks second in the ACC in the 400m with a time of 52.35 seconds.
In addition to Miami’s three standout seniors, the Hurricanes have several talented female athletes slated to compete in Atlanta this weekend including sprinters Kristina Knott, Brittny Ellis, and Carolyn Brown, hurdlers Stefani Kerrison and Anna Runia, distance runner Gabrielle Hesslau, jumpers Erika Voyzey, Kyra Maryland and Darlene Charles, pole vaulter Emily Gale, throwers Zakiya Rashid, Sherry Lubin and Karyna Armstrong and heptathlete Amy Taintor.
On the men’s side, the Hurricanes have an exciting group of student-athletes on the track and in the field events looking to make their mark at the ACC Championships.
Isaiah Taylor is among the fastest 100m sprinters in the conference, ranking third in the ACC with a time of 10.41 seconds. Henri Delauze and Breon Mullings are poised for impressive performances in the 200m and 400m, while Sean Grossman leads the men’s distance group. Miami’s 4x100m relay is also third in the ACC entering the meet.
The Hurricanes will look to defending ACC decathlon champion Andreas Christodoulou and senor thrower Daniel Polinski to lead the way in the field events.
ACC Network Extra will live stream action during each day’s session, with former Olympic decathlon gold medalist Dan O’Brienagain providing color commentary, reprising the role he filled at the 2016 ACC Outdoor Championships and again during this season’s Indoor Championships at Notre Dame. Two-time Olympian Amy Rudolph will also be on hand as the analyst for the distance running events.
They will be joined by veteran ESPN play-by-play announcer Shawn Kenney.ACC Network Extra will bring live action Friday from 6 until 9:30 p.m. Saturday’s live coverage will air from 5:30 until 9:30 p.m., followed by Sunday’s finals from 5 until the meet’s conclusion.
Competition begins Friday at 11 a.m. with the men’s hammer throw. Other highlights include the opening of the women’s heptathlon and men’s decathlon plus other field events, including the women’s pole vault competition and women’s hammer throw. The women’s 10,000-meter finals are set for 7:55 p.m., followed by the men’s 10,000 meters at 8:35 p.m.
A full slate of events and preliminaries continues Saturday and Sunday, with finals in most of the running events wrapping up the Championships on Sunday evening.
Following the ACC Outdoor Championships, qualifying Hurricanes will travel to compete at the NCAA East Preliminary in Lexington, Ky., on May 25-27. To view the complete Miami track and field schedule for the 2017 season, click here.
Miami Entries
Men
100m: Brandon Taylor, Isaiah Taylor, Daniel McAllister
200m: Brandon Taylor, Isaiah Taylor
400m: Henri Delauze, Breon Mullings, Milton Sandling
1500m: Matthew Wiefels
5000m: Sean Grossman, Sean Hagert
10000m: Sean Grossman, Sean Hagert
400m IH: Ibrahim Dodo
3000m Steeple: Michael Miano
4x100m: Isaiah Taylor, Brandon Taylor, Breon Mullings, Daniel McAllister, Myles Valentine
4x400m: Henri Delauze, Breon Mullings, Ibrahim Dodo, McKinly Brown, Myles Valentine, Milton Sandling
Shot Put: Daniel Polinski
Discus: Daniel Polinski
Decathlon: Andreas Christodoulou
Women
100m: Kristina Knott, Carolyn Brown
200m: Shakima Wimbley, Kristina Knott, Brittny Ellis, Carolyn Brown, Aiyanna Stiverne, Erin Ford,
400m: Shakima Wimbley, Brittny Ellis, Aiyanna Stiverne, Erin Ford, Trishelle Leacock
800m: Anne den Otter
1500m: Anne den Otter
5000m: Gabrielle Hesslau
10000m: Gabrielle Hesslau
100m HH: Ebony Morrison, Stefani Kerrison
400m IH: Anna Runia, Samantha Gonzalez
4x100m: Ebony Morrison, Shakima Wimbley, Kristina Knott, Carolyn Brown, Aiyanna Stiverne, Anna Runia
4x400m: Anna Runia, Aiyanna Stiverne, Samantha Gonzalez, Brittny Ellis, Erin Ford, Shakima Wimbley
High Jump: Erika Voyzey, Kyra Maryland, Celine Thompson
Pole Vault: Emily Gale
Long Jump: Stefani Kerrison, Darlene Charles, Amy Taintor
Triple Jump: Darlene Charles, Niara Hill
Shot Put: Sherry Lubin, Zakiya Rashid
Discus: Zakiya Rashid, Sherry Lubin
Hammer Throw: Karyna Armstrong, Sherry Lubin
Heptathlon: Amy Taintor
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