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Wise Earns All-America Honors
June 21, 2007 | Track and Field
June 7, 2007
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dermillo Wise earned All-America honors in the men's long jump at the NCAA National Outdoor Track and Field Championships Thursday night, becoming the second Sooner to do so in as many days.
Wise had a best leap of 24 feet, 2.50 inches (7.38 meters), despite an extreme headwind of 4.2 meters per second, to place eighth and score the first point for the Sooner men.
"It was a hard day, you know, with a 4.2 headwind," Wise said. "You move up (on take off), you move back. Can't get a fair jump. You have to take what you can get."
DaShalle Andrews of Cal State Northridge and Tone Belt of Lousiville tied for best jump at 25-2.50. Andrews was awarded the national title by having the better second-best jump.
Wise represented the first Sooner long jumper at the NCAA Championships since 1988 when Russell Adams earned All-America honors.
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Jessica Eldridge was one of 12 qualifiers for Saturday's final of the women's 1500-meter run. Eldridge was seventh in her heat and overall at 4:18.46.
"This race was more physical - more elbows, more kicking," Eldridge said. "When you get a lot of good girls in one race, this is what happens."
Eldridge had to fight from the back of the pack after the first 400 meters as the top nine finishers in heat two ran faster than the heat-one winner.
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All-American Long Jumper Dermillo Wise Shot Put Finalist Kevin Bookout 1500-Meter Run Finalist Jessica Eldridge
Kevin Bookout was ninth overall in the shot put preliminaries with a best of 61 feet, 3.00 inches (18.67 meters), qualifying for his fourth career final event.
"I threw all right today, nothing great," Bookout said. "I've got some things I'm going to work on ... anything can happen on Saturday."
USC's Noah Bryant was the overall leader at 64-11.25 (19.79).
The men's shot put final is scheduled for Saturday at 12 p.m. Central.
Mitch Henry placed 10th in the men's decathlon, scoring a personal record 7,268 points.
Henry started the final day of the decathlon in 19th, but fell to 21st after the first two events.
Historically a better second-day decathlete, Henry posted a lifetime best of 15-5.00 (4.70), fourth best in the event, in the pole vault to soar into the 11th spot with two events remaining.
In the javelin throw, Henry placed third with a best throw of 190-3 (57.98) to improve to ninth overall before the final event.
The men's 4x400-meter relay of Zach Dawson, Jacobi Mitchell, Leonarde Smith and Frankie Wright finished 12th overall in the qualifying round, clocking 3:06.89.
Texas A&M ran 3:02.64 to lead going into the finals. Florida was the final qualifying relay, in eighth place, at 3:04.92.
OU's women's 4x400-meter relay of Leslie Cole, Jhavonne Pope, Yolanda Goff and Tijhanni Newton ran 3:36.00, placing 17th overall.
Leonarde Smith was 25th overall in the 400-meter hurdles, clocking 52.68.
The NCAA Championships continue Friday and will be televised live on CSTV at 7:30 p.m. Central.
Shardae Boutte and Tydree Lewis will compete in the qualifying round of the men's triple jump, Toni Smith enters the qualifying round of the women's triple jump, Chip Heuser competes in the men's pole vault final, and the men's and women's 4x100-meter relay have their final.
Goff earned All-America honors in the women's 100-meter dash Wednesday.
CBS broadcasts live Saturday, June 9, beginning at 12 p.m. Central.
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