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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Six Seek National Track & Field Titles
June 05, 2006 | Track and Field
NORMAN, Okla. -- Six Sooners will compete for individual glory at the NCAA National Outdoor Track & Field Championships, June 7-10, at the Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex on the campus of Sacramento State University.
Kevin Bookout (shot put), Tony Francis (110-meter hurdles), Yolanda Goff (women's 100-meter dash), Chip Heuser (pole vault), Scott Martin (pole vault) and Dermillo Wise (110-meter hurdles) will represent the University of Oklahoma at the Championships.
The qualifying round for the men's pole vault as well as first and semifinals rounds of the men's 110-meter hurdles are scheduled for Wednesday, June 7. The men's shot put qualifying round and first and semifinal rounds for the women's 100-meter dash starts Thursday.
Bookout is looking for his third All-America recognition in three tries, while Heuser and Martin are looking for their first such at the outdoor championships.
Goff is making her second appearance at the national championships. Francis and Wise are making their first.
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HISTORIC TELEVISION COVERAGE
For the first time since 1982 -- before nearly all of the competing student-athletes were even born -- the NCAA National Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be broadcast live on network television.
The 2006 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships will feature 4 hours of live television coverage following the announcement that College Sports Television (CSTV) will air two hours of Friday's competition.
CBS earlier announced that it would air 2 hours of live coverage, 2:30 to 5 p.m. Central, Saturday, June 10, the final day of the four-day collegiate championships.
The amount of live coverage marks the most in the 86-year history of the NCAA Division I Track and Field.
CSTV will broadcast two hours of competition, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. CDT, Friday, June 9. Never before has the next-to-last day of the NCAA Championships been televised live.
NCAA MIDWEST REGIONAL REVISITED
Five Sooners automatically qualified for the NCAA National Outdoor Track & Field Championships with their results at the NCAA Midwest Regional in Austin, Texas.
Kevin Bookout will make his third national championships appearance. The two-time All-American placed fourth in the shot put with a best throw of 61-1.25 (18.62).
Tony Francis (13.99) and Dermillo Wise (14.00) raced to fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 110-meter high hurdles. Both will make their first appearance at the NCAAs.
Yolanda Goff was fifth in the women's 100-meter dash, qualifying for the national championships for the second consective year in the event. Goff ran a personal best 11.40, passing Darlena Morganfield (1990) for third place on OU's all-time performance list in the event.
They will join junior Scott Martin, who tied for second place in the men's pole vault Friday.
Martin was one of three to clear 17 feet, nine inches (5.41 meters) at the NCAA Midwest Regional Friday afternoon in Austin, Texas, tying for second place on number of attempts from earlier jumps.
The junior will make his third NCAA Championships appearance. As a freshman in 2004, the Tulsa native finished 16th at the national outdoor championships. As a sophomore, Martin earned All-America honors with a fourth-place result at the national indoor championships.
Notable Sooners just missing out of automatic qualification for the national championships through placement at the regional were Jason Stanley, who was seventh in the 110-meter hurdles (14.05); Wise in the 400 hurdles (51.69); and the women's 4x100-meter relay, which finished fifth (45.18).
Chip Heuser earned an at-large qualification from the NCAA Tuesday, May 30.
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