Sooners Claim Five Titles at Texas A&M Invitational

Jan. 16, 2010

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The second weekend of the 2010 Oklahoma season saw OU athletes earn five individual titles, all in field events, Saturday at the Texas A&M Invitational. Along with wins by Neelon Greenwood (long jump), Ti'Anca Mock (long jump), Karen Shump (shot put), K.P. Singh (weight throw) and Kevin Snyder (high jump), Oklahoma athletes earned seven NCAA provisional qualifying marks needed to be considered as an at-large bid for the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Shump, already the program record holder in the shot put, won the event with a provisional qualifying throw of 55-3.75 (16.86). Shump was one of two Sooners with a provisional qualifying mark as Amy Backel recorded a PR of 51-6.50 (15.71) to finish second in the event. The throw is the fourth longest in progam history. Two other throwers opened their Oklahoma careers and put their names on the shot put's top-10 performance list as Tia Brooks finished fourth with the fifth-best mark of program history at 49-8.25 (15.14) and Brittany Borman unleashed the eighth best, 47-5.00 (14.45) to finish sixth.

Staying in the throws ring, Singh brought home a second event win in the men's weight throw as the program record holder won the event by over two feet with a provisional qualifying distance of 64-1.75 (19.55).

In her first NCAA competition in the triple jump, Simmons, a junior college transfer, leapt the third-best distance in Oklahoma history to finish second. Simmons' jump of 42-3.50 (12.89) was the best by a collegiate competitor in the event.

Simmons left the winning mantra on the jumps runway and Mock picked it up to claim the event title in the women's long jump with a provisional qualifying jump of 20-3.75 (6.19). The reigning Big 12 champion in the event owns the program record with a jump of 20-11.75 (6.39).

Greenwood followed Mock to give OU the sweep in the long jump pits as he won the men's event with a top jump of 24-6.25 (7.47).

While he didn't win the event, Mookie Salaam did record the fastest 200-meter dash of any collegiate competitors as the sophomore earned a NCAA provisional qualifying time of 21.11.

The quartet of Eric Bailey, Remuro Henry, Mookie Salaam and Zach Dawson teamed to clock the final NCAA provisional qualifying time of the day as 3:09.51 was god for fourth in the event.

The men's high jump saw OU's third individual title as Snyder cleared a height of 6-8.75 (2.05) in just one attempt.

D'Andre Fisher took second in the men's 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.11, just off his PR of 8.08. Fisher qualified for the finals with a time of 8.20 in the event's prelims. Freshman Jeffrey Artis took fourth with a time of 8.24.

Marco Moon took second in the men's triple jump with a top mark of 48-4.50 (14.74). Another field event, the women's pole vault, saw an Oklahoma athlete take second as Jacy Bennett cleared the bar at 11-6.50 (3.52).

In the women's final of the 60-meter hurdles, Latoya Greaves came in third with a time of 8.47 while Demeeka Jones finished ninth in a time of 8.77. Greaves qualified for the finals with a time of 8.53, the fourth fastest in the event's prelims.

The finals of the women's 60-meter dash saw three Sooners finish in the top six with Scottesha Miller leading the way in fourth with a time of 7.48. Sherine Wells (7.53) and Ti'Anca Mock (7.59) finished fifth and sixth, respectively.

Bailey finished fifth in the men's 400-meter dash, the top finish of any collegiate athletes with a time 48.36. Former Sooner Leslie Cole won the women's 400-meter dash with a meet record time of 52.43 and the 200-meter dash in a time of 23.25.

The Sooners return to action next week in their second trip this season to Fayetteville, Ark., for the Razorback Invitational.