NCAA D1 Championships – Day Three Notes

EUGENE, Ore. – Another collegiate record bit the dust in day three action at the 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships Thursday, while a third of the week nearly fell in another event. A handful of student-athletes also made successful title defenses or reclaimed titles they had previously held.

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The following notes have been generated by the country’s sports information/athletic communications/media relations departments and compiled by the USTFCCCA in one central location.

Heptathlon

Kansas Jayhawk Lindsay Vollmer’s heptathlon win makes her the first Kansas female to win a NCAA outdoor title. Her final score of 6,086 also makes her the No. 10 performer in NCAA history.

Vollmer and Arkansas’ Makeba Alcide (6050) became the ninth and tenth individuals to surpass 6000 points at the NCAA Championships with the 13th and 14th 6000+ scores in meet history. Alcide’s total was the best-ever by a runner-up in the event, and she is the only runner-up in meet history to surpass 6000 points.

Erica Bougard of Mississippi State finished fourth in heptathlon with a school record 5976 points. She broke her own mark of 5786 set last year as a freshman.

Women’s Pole Vault

With a torn ligament in her left shoulder, South Dakota’s Bethany Buell cleared 14-7¼ on her third and final attempt to become South Dakota’s first Division I national champion. South Dakota is in its first season as a full Division I member. The junior from St. Louis tied the D-I national championship record with a clutch jump to edge Kansas’ Natalia Bartonovskaya — the 2013 indoor champ — and Eastern Illinois’ Jade Riebold, who both finished at 14-5¼.

Prior to her junior season at Alabama, senior Alexis Paine had never cleared better than 11-8 in competition. Two short years later, the Crimson Tide school record holder at 14-7 ¼, she has earned three All-American honors in the event and posted a career-best NCAA finish of fourth during today’s action.

Men’s High Jump

Indiana’s Derek Drouin cleared 2.34m (7-8) to win the fifth NCAA title of his career in the high jump. The senior missed on his first attempt at 2.31m (7-7), falling behind two-time defending champion Erik Kynard of Kansas State and passed to the next height, where he cleared on his second and final attempt. Three misses by Kynard gave Drouin the title. Drouin took three jumps at 2.39m (7-10), which would have broken the all-time collegiate record, missing on all three. Drouin’s title is the 26th in school history outdoors, and his second outdoors to go along with three outdoors.

The result is a flip of the 2012 championships, when Kynard won with a jump of 2.34m (7-8) and Drouin took second at 2.31m (7-7). Drouin adds 10 team points for the Hoosiers, moving his career NCAA scoring total to 66 points, which is just four behind IU’s all-time leader Aarik Wilson.

Kansas State’s Erik Kynard finished second in his final jump in a K-State uniform with a leap of 2.31 meters (7-7.00), coming up short of the first three-peat in the event since 1946.

JaCorian Duffield of Texas Tech matched the best-ever finish (7th) by a Red Raider in the high jump. Darrell Roddick tied for 7th in 2010. Duffield’s 7th-place finish is the highest outright finish in school history. Duffield’s clearance of 7-2½ is the highest ever by a Red Raider in the NCAA finals.

Women’s Triple Jump

Shanieka Thomas becomes SDSU’s fifth individual national champion with a winning jump of 46-4 (14.14m). Whitney Ashley won the discus throw last year, but before that it had been since 1985 since San Diego State had a national champion. Thomas would have won the meet with four of her six attempts. She won the title after finishing runner-up at the 2013 indoor meet and the 2012 outdoor meet.

With a personal record jump of 44-6 (13.56m), Michigan State’s Tori Franklin earned a career-high fourth-place finish and broke the school record in the process. She beat out the Big Ten Champion from Nebraska with her record-setting mark from her third jump in the first round. Franklin, who entered the meet ranked sixth in the nation, improved eight spots from her 12th-place finish at the 2012 national meet.

Women’s 400 hurdles

Kori Carter of Stanford blazed to a new collegiate record in 53.21, crushing the previous in-season collegiate record of 53.54 set by UCLA’s Sheena Johnson in 2004. Her time is the new world leader by nearly half a second, making her just the third woman sub-54 this season.

Arizona senior Georganne Moline earned a runner-up finish in the 400 hurdles with a personal-best time of 53.72. That time is the third-best time in collegiate history, No. 3 in the world this year and the new school record. The previous school record was Moline’s personal-best time of 53.92 at the London Olympic Games on August 8, 2012. Her time would have won 30 of the 32 NCAA Championships 400 hurdles races ever contested.

Moline and Carter are only the second and third women ever to run under 54 seconds during the collegiate season.

Men’s 400 hurdles

USC’s Reggie Wyatt claimed NCAA title with a PR of 48.58, .61 seconds over the second-place ﬁnisher Michael Stigler of Kansas. Wyatt moved from ﬁfth to third on USC’s all-time list in the event and became the Trojans’ ﬁrst winner of the 400 hurdles since two-time Olympic gold medalist Felix Sanchez won in 2000. He also became USC’s only three-time scorer in the event and fourth champion, including Rex Cawley’s win in the 400 yard hurdles in 1963. Wyatt’s is the only sub-49 time by a collegian this season.

Jeffrey Gibson of Oral Roberts ran 49.39 to take home fifth and break a 30-year-old Bahamian national record in the process. One of the oldest standing records in the Bahamas, Greg Rolle ran 49.46 in the event back in 1983.

Women’s 100 Meters

Oregon’s English Gardner overcame an injury during the 200 meters semifinals Thursday to defend her 100 title in 10.96 (+0.9m/s), moving up to a tie for the fourth-fastest in-season time in collegiate history with LSU’s Kimberlyn Duncan. She is the fifth woman to win back-to-back 100 meters titles and the first to do so since Angela Williams of Southern California won four straight from 1999-2002. She becomes the third woman in the world to dip under 11 seconds in 2013. She also broke the Pac-12 record of 10.97 that had been held by Gail Devers since 1987, the first year the Conference sponsored women’s sports.

UCF’s Octavious Freeman earned the best finish by a Knight in any event of the NCAA Outdoor Championships in school history with her second-place, personal-best time of 11.00 (+0.9) to break her own school record. The performance ties for the eighth-best mark in collegiate history.

Men’s 100 Meters

Charles Silmon became the second man in TCU history to win the men’s 100-meter dash title, joining Raymond Stewart, who took the crown in 1987 and 1989. Silmon’s time of 9.89w is tied for the fastest all-conditions mark in TCU history, also with Stewart who went 9.89w in 1987. He finished the season not losing to a collegian in the 100-meter dash. The only people to finish ahead of him were during the invitational 100-meter dash at the Texas Relays when U.S. Olympians Darvis "Doc" Patton, Wallace Spearmon and Mike Rodgers finished ahead of Silmon’s fourth-place.

Silmon’s mark also equaled the NCAA Championships record of 9.89 by Florida State’s Ngoni Makusha in 2011 (though Makusha’s was wind-legal.). His mark is tied with Makusha for the seventh-fastest all-conditions time in collegiate history, and is the No. 4 all-conditions mark in the world for 2013.

Florida State’s Dentarius Locke’s runner-up finish in the 100-meter dash is Florida State’s 11th podium finish in the showcase sprint at the NCAA Championship since the 2005 meet. Over the course of that stretch the Seminoles have produced three champions, including collegiate record-holder Ngoni Makusha (9.89) at the 2011 meet. Walter Dix won the 2005 and 2007 titles. Locke’s wind-aided 9.91 time in the final is second only to Makusha’s legal mark among Seminoles. It should also be noted that Locke closes the 2013 collegiate season with the nation’s fastest legal time, following his 9.97 in the semifinal round at this year’s meet.

Isiah Young of Ole Miss’ third-place result is the best in Ole Miss history in the 100 meters at the NCAA Championships. Mike Granger previously had the best finish with a seventh-place effort in 2011.

Alabama junior Diondre Batson blazed to another career-best time in the finals of the 100-meters, crossing the line at 10.01 to take fourth place. With his finish, he becomes the first Crimson Tide to score in the 100m at the NCAA Championships since Emmitt King and Calvin Smith in 1983

Women’s 800 Meters

LSU’s Natoya Goule claimed the outdoor title to go along with her indoor title, leading wire-to-wire for the 2:00.06 win, giving her the fifth-fastest in-season time in collegiate history — narrowly missing becoming the fifth woman ever to break 2:00 during the collegiate season.

Men’s 800 Meters

Oregon’s Elijah Greer won the title to give the Ducks seven 800 meters titles in their history — more than any other program in NCAA history.

With runner-up Casimir Loxsom and third-place Brandon Kidder, Penn State is the first program to have two top three finishers in the men’s outdoor 800 since Michigan in 1945, when the Wolverines earned first and third-place standings. Kidder’s performance is historic among freshman athletes, as the frosh is the highest finishing frosh in the 800 since 2010, and is one of just three rookies to earn a top three finish in the event in the last 10 years. Kidder concludes a banner freshman year, which also included a second-place finish in the distance medley relay at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Kidder was on his horse for the second 400 meters, clocking 53.10 on his closing lap – the fastest effort in the entire field.

Men’s 3000 steeplechase

UTEP’s Anthony Rotich won in 8:21.19, a time that not only makes him the school record holder in the steeplechase, but also was the seventh-fastest collegiate time. Rotich is UTEP’s first NCAA Champion on the men’s team since 2008 when Mickael Hanany won the high jump in the Orange and Blue.

BYU’s Curtis Carr finished fourth with a career-best time of 8:40.87 and was the top American finisher in the race.

High Point’s Dakota Peachee became the program’s first All-American since the school moved up to NCAA Div. I in 1999-2000 when he finished fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. His time of 8:43.04 was a new school record. He was HPU’s third NCAA qualifier ever.

Women’s 400

Ashley Spencer of Illinois defended her 400m title on Friday evening in record form. The winning time of 50.28 was a personal best, a school record and is the fifth-best in-season collegiate time ever and fifth best in the world this year. The time also makes her the number four in-season performer in college history. Spencer is now a four-time All-American, finishing third indoors in the 400m. For her career, Spencer is a two-time NCAA champion (400m), two-time indoor All-American (200m/400m), and a 12-time Big Ten champion. The sophomore is still undefeated in a 400m final in her short career as an Illini.

Georgia true freshman Shaunae Miller topped her own school record in the 400m with a 50.70 to earn runner-up honors. She finishes her first season with the Lady Bulldogs by scoring 18 individual points after winning the 2013 NCAA indoor crown.

With a fourth-place finish in 51.96, Texas freshman Courtney Okolo is the first Longhorn to score for UT in the 400 outdoors since LaTasha Kerr placed seventh in 2006. Okolo’s fourth-place result was the highest for a Longhorn in the event since Sanya Richards earned third in 2004.

Men’s 400

USC’s Bryshon Nellum won in 44.73, a time that bettered his fourth-place standing on USC’s all-time list and made him USC’s ﬁrst national champion in the 400m dash since Jerome Davis won in 1998. Nellum’s time was the fourth-fastest ever by a Trojan in the ﬁnals.

Florida’s Arman Hall finished third to become just the 13th freshman in NCAA history to finish in the top three in 92 years of the event at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Hall joins former Gator All-American Tyrone Kemp (2nd – 1989) as the only other Gator freshman to earn a podium finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the men’s 400 meters.

Women’s 5000

Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino’s title is the 50th all-time for the Ivy League. She becomes the fifth to win back-to-back 5000 titles outdoors — first since Stanford’s Lauren Fleshman between 2001 and 2003 — and the seventh to sweep indoor/outdoor 5000, and the first since Lisa Koll of Iowa State in 2010.

In the final race of her decorated career, Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton of Wichita State placed fourth in the nation in the 5000. Tuliamuk-Bolton’s time of 15:51.13 earned her First-Team All-American honors for the 13th time.

Boise State’s Emma Bates finished seventh thanks to a school record time of 15:59.35, breaking her own record set earlier this year (16:04.03). She also placed third in the 10000-meters Wednesday.