Two Jayhawk sprinters win gold

Monday, April 23, 2007

Needing only the proper weather to do so, sophomores Sha’Ray Butler and Victoria Howard took the field at the Kansas Relays and won the 400-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, respectively.

Photo by Amanda Sellers

Julius Jiles, Kansas City, MO sophomore, keeps pace with other runners during the mens' 100 meter dash on Friday. Jiles finished his heat with a time of 10.96.

Butler, like most of the competitors, appreciated the opportunity to run in nice conditions after weeks of cold and rain.

“I felt that last week I didn’t run very well — it was cold,” Butler said in a press release. “Now that the weather is nice, I felt like I could come out and run a nice race.”

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My coach and I have been working on my technique. I’ve been battling through some injuries, but I gave it my all today and executed my race.

-sophomore Victoria Howard

Butler, who also won her preliminary heat, captured the gold with a regional-qualifying and personal-record time of 59.54 seconds.

Howard used a finishing kick to score a decisive victory in the 100. She ran a personal-record time of 11.58, winning by 0.12 seconds.

“My coach and I have been working on my technique,” Howard said in a press release. “I’ve been battling through some injuries, but I gave it my all today and executed my race.”

Junior Ashley Brown also looked good on Saturday, competing in the invitational 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles.

Brown narrowly missed setting a Kansas record in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in at a personal-best time of 13.33 for sixth place. Brown also improved her regional-qualifying time in the 400-meter hurdles, finishing in a fourth-place time of 58.48.

All-American junior Colby Wissel competed in his first 1,500-meter race on Saturday, finishing in second place with a time of 3:47.08.

Wissel was using the race to train for the 5,000-meter race he will run next week and still snuck under the regional-qualifying time.

Track Notes:

-Junior Julius Jiles finished seventh in the 110-meter hurdles, coming in at 14.03. Jiles also competed in the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash.

-Sophomore Jarrell Rollins placed fifth in the 400-meter dash, running a personal-record time of 48.20.

-Sophomore Charity Stowers ran 57.03 and came in fourth in the 400-meter dash.

Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.

— Edited by Carissa Pedigo

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