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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sooner Senior Named Big 12 T/F Athlete of the Week
January 22, 2002 | Track and Field
OU senior Michael McNamara became the third Sooner in as many weeks to be named the Big 12 Athlete of the Week for track and field today. The Tulsa pole vaulter won the Oklahoma Track Classic on Saturday with a vault of 18-0.5.
The mark is a indoor career best for McNamara who missed the 2001 indoor season while recovering from knee surgery. It also is an automatic qualifying mark for the 2002 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships to be held March 8-9 in Fayetteville, Ark., the first automatic mark in the pole vault recorded to date this season.
McNamara's effort Saturday also ranks as the best height cleared by a Division I collegian this season. He had posted NCAA provisional marks in his first two meets of the season, going 17-0.75 to finish third in the OU All Comers Dec. 1 and 17-8.5 on Jan. 12 to win the USA Track and Field Pole Vault Summit collegiate men's elite division.
Sophomore Leslie Dunlap was named the female Big 12 Track and Field Athlete of the Week on Jan. 14 after finishing fourth in the women's elite collegiate division at the USA Track and Field Pole Vault Summit. Freshman Jason Stanley was named the Big 12's male track and field athlete of the week for the week of January 7 after tying the OU school record in the 60-meter hurdles with the country's fourth fastest time, 7.88, in the OU All Comers. The first award covered meets held from Dec. 1 through Jan. 5.
Austra Skujyte of Kansas State won the women's award after setting the all-time collegiate women's record in the pentathlon.
McNamara and the Sooners will travel to the Nebraska Invitational on Friday. The Sooners are currently ranked 16th in the country by Trackwire.
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