Monday, March 9, 2009
Jordan Scott will maybe have some of his teammates join him to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships next weekend. Keyword being “maybe.”
The Kansas track and field team competed on Saturday at the Iowa State NCAA Qualifier in Ames, Iowa. This past in weekend both distance runners junior Lauren Bonds and senior Colby Wissel competed in Notre Dame’s Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind.
WOMEN
200-meter dash Victoria Howard 24.33 (2nd)
4X400 relay Kansas 3.44.64 (10th)
Pole Vault Mackenzie Wills 3.70 meters (tie for 8th) Abby Jones 3.70 (tie for 8th)
Long Jump Jamaica Collins 5.62 meters (5th)
Women’s One-Mile Lauren Bonds 4:48.50 (11th)
MEN
Long Jump Jareb Stallbaumer 7.03 meters (4th)
Triple Jump Corey Fuller 15.21 meters (2nd)
One-Mile Patrick McGowan 4:16.69 (5th)
4X400 relay Kansas 3:13.36 (16th)
Men’s 3,000-meter run Colby Wissel 7:58.08 (4th)
It was the last chance for the team to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas, to be held on March 13 to 14.
Out of all the Jayhawks that competed, it was freshman sprinter Keith Hayes who was the only Jayhawk to provisionally qualify for the Indoor Championships.
Hayes provisionally qualified in the 60-meter hurdle event, running a time of 7.86 seconds, placing him third in the finals. Both Bonds and Wissel also provisional qualified this weekend. Bonds in the one-mile, running a time of 4:48 and Wissel in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 7:58.
In track, provisionally qualifying for a meet is equivalent to college basketball of being on the bubble, it doesn’t guarantee a trip to the Indoor National Championship as automatically qualifying for an event, but it does put the athlete on notice by NCAA for possible selection based on how well they performed during the season.
“The only thing I was worried about was going to NCAA,” Hayes said.
Hayes placed fifth in the preliminary round running a time of 7.95 seconds, qualifying him for finals.
“It wasn’t clean. It was a fast race but it wasn’t a clean race,” Hayes said. Hayes said his performance in the finals round went a lot better than the preliminary round.
Hayes said that although he didn’t reach his goal of 7.80 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, that he was still hapy with his performance. He said running a 7.80 would have given him a better chance of making it to the Indoor Nationals.
“If there were more meets left this season, I probably wouldn’t run eight seconds ever again,” Hayes said. “I probably should have taken care of business sooner than later.”
Hayes said that after this weekend, he was optimistic about making it to the Indoor Nationals, especially for next year.
“I stay healthy and I keep working at it in practice. The opportunity will rise up again,” Hayes said.
The team won’t know for sure who will officially be going to the championship until Monday when the NCAA will announce its chosen athletes.
“It’s definitely nerve wracking,” Hayes said. “I hope I get to go. But I’d rather be 100 percent sure that I’m going than being on the bubble.”
— — Edited by Jesse Trimble
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