Athletes qualify for Outdoor Championships

Monday, June 8, 2009

The Kansas track and field team’s season will continue this week when four of its members travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

At the Midwest Regionals during the last weekend in May, senior Zlata Tarasova was the first to qualify after throwing 55.87 meters (183 feet) in the hammer throw. She placed fifth in the competition May 29th.

The following Saturday, junior Lauren Bonds and freshman Keith Hayes both qualified for the Outdoor Championship. Bonds qualified in the women’s 1500-meter run with 4 minutes, 26.04 seconds. Hayes qualified in the men’s 110-meter hurdles with 13.37 seconds.

Senior Nickesha Anderson took seventh in the 200-meter finals on Saturday with a time of 23.66 seconds, which was strong enough to get her an at-large bid to join her other three teammates in Fayetteville.

Anderson was the only Jayhawk to receive an at-large bid.

Tarasova will be the first to compete for Kansas at the Outdoor Championship on Wednesday in the qualifying round of the hammer throw event at 1 p.m.

Anderson, Bonds and Hayes will compete in the preliminary rounds of their track events this Thursday. The 110-meter hurdles are at 5:50 p.m., the 200-meter at 6:10 p.m. and the 1500-meter at 7:55 p.m.

— — Edited by Kristen Liszewski

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