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OU Women Reach Highest Ranking
May 22, 2008 | Track and Field
May 22, 2008
NORMAN, Okla. -- The Oklahoma women's outdoor track and field team has reached its highest position in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) rankings released on Thursday by the organization.
Performances at last week's Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships enabled six female Sooners to climb in individual event rankings to help OU jump five spots in the rankings to No. 15. The OU women are the third-ranked Big 12 team behind the nation's top-ranked team and conference champion, Texas A&M, and No. 4 Texas Tech. The Oklahoma men moved up 12 spots to No. 32 led by the nation's top triple jumper in Shardae Boutte.
The USTFCCCA Division I indoor track and field rankings are compiled solely from NCAA descending order lists.
Five OU women are ranked in the top-10 nationally. Junior Leslie Cole moved up one spot in the women's 400-meter dash to No. 6 while Big 12 100-meter hurdles champion Latoya Greaves jumped three spots to No. 8. Sophomore Scottesha Miller attained top-10 rankings in two events with school-record times in the 100-meter dash (No. 8) and the 200-meter dash (No. 10). Cole and Miller along with Jalesa Walker and Missy Barnes make up the women's 4x100-meter relay that is ranked seventh nationally. Cole is also ranked No. 13 in the 200.
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Horizontal jumper Toni Smith is No. 12 in the triple jump but moved up 10 spots in the long jump to No. 20. OU women's javelin record holder Amy Backel is No. 13 while distance runner Jessica Eldridge is at No. 17 in the 1,500-meter run.
On the men's side Boutte leads the way with a school-record and nation's best jump of 54 feet and 4.75 inches (16.58 meters) in the triple jump. Marcus Pugh is No. 9 and No. 10, respectively, in the men's 100- and 200-meter dash. Boutte's triple jumping teammate, Tydree Lewis, is No. 12 while Paul Gill rounds out the Oklahoma men's top-20 athletes at No. 20 in the high jump.
Texas A&M is the women's top-ranked team while LSU holds the distinction on the men's side.
The Sooners are off this weekend as they prepare for the 2008 NCAA Midwest Regional, May 30-31, in Lincoln, Neb. In 2007 the Oklahoma men claimed the Midwest Regional team title while sending 14 men, a nation's best, to the 2007 NCAA Championships. Seven Sooner woman qualified for the national meet as well.
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