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Track Sets Three School Records At Penn State
Feb. 8, 2010
Complete Meet Results in PDF Format
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - With the 2010 Conference Indoor Championships just three weeks away, the East Carolina track and field teams built some momentum with strong showings at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup, hosted by Penn State this past weekend at the Ashenfelter Track. Three school records were broken, as two of the marks were set by newcomers. "This was a great meet to prepare us for the C-USA Indoor Championships," head coach Curt Kraft remarked. "The athletes were very excited about what they accomplished this past weekend. Anytime you set three school records in one weekend, you know you have accomplished something. We also produced many seasonal bests as well as personal records. We will continue to build towards doing well at the conference meet in three weeks." Junior Brittany Copeland broke her previous school record time in the 5,000-meter run, clocking in at 17:01.37. Additionally, junior Dennis Aliotta turned in a 17.12 showing in the shot put and freshman Aaron Zakula reached 4.50 meters in the pole vault to etch their names into the record book. Freshman Britney Kott excelled in the 600-meter run, finishing ninth with a time of 1:39.23. Her sister, Brooke, then took 10th in the 800-meter run, finishing in 2:16.09. Additionally, the 4x400 relay team compiled a season-best time of 3:57.00. Two Pirates, Tynita Butts and Valeria Moore, finished fifth and seventh in the high jump, achieving marks of 1.70 and 1.65, respectively. Stephanie McDougal then turned in her second-highest mark of the campaign in the pole vault, recording a 3.60 which was good for sixth. Butts also continued her mastery of the long jump, finishing first for the third time this year with a mark of 5.91.
Newcomer Torrance Hunt, who also plays football for ECU, earned his first experience of the indoor season, capturing fifth in the preliminaries of the 60m dash to advance to the finals, where he garnered fifth-place with a time of 6.88. Antonial Marshall also qualified for the final, taking seventh and checking in at 6.90. Marshall then followed that performance with a sixth-place result in the 200-meter run at a 22.11 pace. Ron Wright also kept the top-10 finishes coming, earning seventh-place with a time of 49.05 while Joseph Samuels was fifth in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing the event in 8.32. Freshman Austin Lewis provided a strong finish to the meet for the Pirates, earning a season-best mark of 7.19 meters in the long jump. East Carolina will participate in one last meet before taking a week of to prepare in earnest for the C-USA Indoor Championships. The Pirates are slated to travel to Chapel Hill for the third time this year for the one-day UNC Invitational at the Eddie Smith Fieldhouse Feb. 12. |
