Track and field wins 14 first places

By By Patrick Shehan

Monday, January 31, 2005

The Kansas Track and Field team put on a show Friday at the Jayhawk Invitational in the Anschutz Sports Pavilion, earning 14 first-place finishes . In front of fans and families alike, the Jayhawks competed against 35 teams, including Big 12 foe Oklahoma State and regional schools Emporia State, Pittsburg State and Wichita State.

Kansas teammates Tiffany Cherry and Brooklyn Hann led the women’s side with five first-place finishes.

Cherry, junior sprinter, placed first in the women’s 60-meter dash with a time of 7.56 seconds. Hann, senior sprinter, electrified the home crowd when she finished the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.52 seconds, the second fastest time in Kansas women’s history. Hann owns the all-time women’s 60-meter dash record with the time of 7.45 seconds, which she ran last year at the Big 12 Championships.

Kansas’ underclassmen placed well at the home event.

Freshman Matt Baysinger won the 600-yard race, his first career victory, with a time of 1:11.44. Sophomore Mark Gdowski pushed Baysinger in the same heat and placed fourth with a time of 1:12.75. Gdowski, a middle-distance runner, topped his previous personal best at last year’s Jayhawk Invitational.

Freshmen placed in distance events as well. Freshman distance runner Connie Abbott won the women’s mile run with a time of 5:17.71, and freshman Colby Wissel won the 3,000-meter race with a time of 8:26.26.

Freshman sprinter Julius Jiles finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.17 seconds.

Kansas coach Stanley Redwine said he was pleased with the his young team’s success.

“We had a lot of freshmen that performed well today, and that is very exciting” Redwine said.

Redwine said, however, that the upperclassmen should not be overlooked. Senior thrower Sheldon Battle continued his streak of national qualifying weight throws with his throw of 65’ 4.25”.

Senior Amy Linnen won the women’s pole vault with the jump of 12-feet-5.5-inches. Junior Jeremy Mims, a middle-distance runner from Iowa City, Iowa, won the 800 meter run with a time of 1:51.48.

Coach Redwine said he thought the Jayhawks could build on the weekend’s success.

“Our team is starting to do what we are expecting them to do and what they are capable of doing,” Redwine said. “It is always great to have those performances at home.”

Former Jayhawk national champion and All-American Leo Bookman won the 60-meters and the 200-meters while competing for Team Nike.

Edited by Jesse Truesdale

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