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Six All-Americans an OU Record
March 12, 2007 | Track and Field
NORMAN, Okla. -- It was confirmed Monday that Portia Nash, the Big 12 Champion, was among the top eight finishers in the women's long jump at the NCAA National Indoor Track & Field Championships, raising OU's total number of women to earn the honor at the meet to a record six.
Nash was 11th overall in the long jump, leaping 20 feet, 0.50 inches. However, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association awards the honor to the top eight finishers and extends further to displace non-U.S. citizens.
National Champion Rhonda Watkins, sixth-place finisher Yvonne Mensah and eighth-place Tanika Liburd do not hold U.S. citizenship, thus granting an award to Nash.
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Six All-Americans at the NCAA Championships is a program best. The previous best was five each at the 1990 NCAA Indoor, 1990 NCAA Outdoor, 1991 NCAA Indoor and 2000 NCAA Outdoor meets. The OU women had eight All-Americans in the final outdoor season of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) in 1982.
Nash shared All-America honors with Sooners Toni Smith (triple jump) and the distance medley relay of Catherine Odell, Leslie Cole, Kristi Cook, Jessica Eldridge. All but Eldridge were first-time selections to an All-America team.
OU pole vaulter Chip Heuser was the lone male to become an All-American. In all, seven of the 15 Sooners who competed at the national championships earned All-America status.
In just one-and-a-half years under head coach Martin Smith, the Sooners have produced 10 All-Americans. OU also broke six school indoor event records in 2007.
The 2007 NCAA National Indoor Track & Field Championships will be tape-delay broadcast on ESPN2 Tuesday, March 13, at 1:30 p.m. Central.
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