Friday, April 10, 2009
For his second outdoor meet, freshman hurdler Keyen Porter has one request. “I hope it’s going to be warm like Arizona, because that was nice,” Porter said.
It may not be Arizona, but the Kansas track and field team will perhaps find good weather to the south in Norman Okla., where they will compete this weekend in the John Jacobs Invitational.
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Kansas Track and Field
John Jacobs Invitational Norman, Okla. Saturday
The Jayhawks are coming off of a successful outdoor debut at the Jim Click Shootout in Tucson, Ariz., where seven of them qualified for the NCAA Midwest Regionals, also in Norman, Okla., next month.
One of those who qualified was freshman Corey Fuller, in the triple jump event. Last weekend Fuller jumped 15.34 meters (50-4). Jumping more than 50 feet was something Fuller was happy to achieve.
“I mean I knew I was going to hit it, but my biggest accomplishment was to be jumping at 50 feet, so I’m proud about that,” Fuller said.
Jumping 50 feet was a personal best for Fuller, who said he wanted to continue getting personal records at every meet from now on.
Coach Stanley Redwine was optimistic about the team’s potential for this weekend’s meet.
“We’re feeling pretty good, everyone’s healthy, we got our first meet out of the way. We’re looking to do bigger and better things this weekend,” he said.
Redwine said that this meet this weekend will serve an important purpose. It will provide Kansas runners with the opportunity to get used to the track, so that when the Midwest Regional Championships come around, they’ll be prepared.
“We have seven people qualify for regionals. It’s a meet of qualifying and to have seven people qualify is a good start,” Redwine said. “Hopefully we’ll get some others qualified so when we go to regionals, we’ll be ready to go to and qualify for the NCAAs.”
One of the Jayhawks with the potential to qualifying this weekend in Oklahoma is senior Charity Stowers. Stowers, who will run the 800-meter, said she was ready and motivated to qualify, after placing sixth for the team in Arizona with a time of 2:13.76.
“I’m starting off better than I did last year and I know I’m on the right track. I just got to trust my training and get it done.” Stowers said.
In the women’s 4x100 relay, the squad of seniors Nickesha Anderson and Victoria Howard, junior Aubree Dorsey and sophomore Kendra Bradley will look to build on their potential after their victory last weekend with a time of 45.89 seconds. They just missed the qualifying mark by .19 seconds.
“We all have good chemistry with each other so we’re going to improve on what we did,” sophomore Kendra Bradley said.
The John Jacobs Invitational will kick off with field events at 10 a.m. and track events at 12:45 p.m.
— — Edited by Justin Leverett
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