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Sooner Men Enter Top 20
February 11, 2009 | Track and Field
Feb. 11, 2009
NORMAN, Okla. — The University of Oklahoma men's indoor track and field team made its 2009 debut in the top 20 of the latest team rankings released by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Wednesday. OU jumped three spots from 22nd last week to 19th this week following a weekend of strong performances.
Led by its two NCAA automatic qualifiers in Jacob Boone and Shardae Boutte, the Sooners leapt Big 12 foes Nebraska and Baylor in this week's poll. In all, the Big 12 Conference has eight men's teams in the top 25, the most of any conference in the nation.
Individually, Boutte is rated No. 2 nationally in the triple jump while Boone is No. 8 in the mile. Last weekend, Boone became the first-ever Oklahoma runner to run a sub-four-minute mile with a time of 3:59.07 at the Meyo Invitational. Boone is just one of two Big 12 runners in the mile to punch a ticket to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships with an automatic qualifying mark. First-year Sooner K.P. Singh is ranked No. 13 in the men's weight throw, an event he owns the Oklahoma program record in.
On the women's side, NCAA automatic qualifier Leslie Cole leads all OU women with a No. 3 ranking in the 400-meter dash after breaking the OU program record in the event over the weekend at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational. Cole also ranks No. 10 in the 200-meter dash with her performance Saturday.
The other women's NCAA automatic qualifier, Ti'Anca Mock, ranks 11th in the long jump and 26th in the triple jump, an event she has provisionally qualified for NCAAs in. Sophomore Scottesha Miller is No. 15 in the women's 60-meter dash with a provisional qualifying time of 7.37 at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational.
The Oklahoma Track and Field program will once again split this weekend with the majority of the team traveling to Fayetteville, Ark., for the Tyson Invitational and a small group of women's distance runners heading to Seattle, Wash., for the Husky Classic.
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