Williams & Price Earn High Point Honors at Division II Outdoor T&F Championships
NEW ORLEANS – With two individual titles apiece at the Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend in Allendale, Mich., Tim Price of Texas A&M-Kingsville and Danielle Williams of Johnson C. Smith earned the men’s and women’s High Point Athlete of the Meet awards, respectively, from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Each year the USTFCCCA recognizes the top individual scorers at the Division II national championship meets. In addition to the team points earned through their performances in individual events, points earned in relays were split four ways.
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Williams scored 28 points to take the women’s honor, while Price scored 20¼ points to earn the men’s award.
Williams, a senior from St. Andrew, Jamaica, won individual crowns at both 100 and 200 meters, and narrowly missed becoming the first woman in Division II outdoor history to win three individual track titles at the same championship meet. She finished runner-up in the 100-meter hurdles to teammate Samantha Elliott by just .006 of a second in 13.05.
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The senior took the 100 meters title in 11.55 by .08 over top-seeded Ada Udaya of New Haven, and won at 200 meters in 23.48 by just .01 over Janae Johnson of Lincoln (Mo.).
Price, a senior from Corpus Christi, Texas, went undefeated in individual races over weekend with titles at both 100 and 200 meters after recording the prelim rounds’ top times in both events. He also ran a leg of the Javelinas’ sixth-place 4×100 relay team.
He won at 100 meters in 10.49 after tying his all-conditions career-best of 10.19w (+3.1m/s) in the prelims, and he tied his all-conditions career-best of 20.75 at 200 meters with an identical wind-legal mark in the final. He also ran a 20.76 to qualify for the final.