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Twelve Sooners Rank in Top 10 After First Week
March 21, 2017 | Track and Field
NORMAN— The first week of the outdoor track and field season saw 12 different Oklahoma student-athletes record results that rank in the top 10 in the nation, according to Track and Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS).
Leading the way for the Sooners is the women's 4x400-meter relay. The quartet that includes Ama Pipi, Daye Shon Roberson, Daunicia Demerson and Payton Baker posted the best time in the nation with a 3:37.48. Their time is more than a second better than the second-best time which was recorded by USC (3:38.55). The outdoor ranking list includes any mark recorded March 1 or after.
On the track, Jacob Burcham posted the third fastest time in the 1500-meter with his 3:47.05. The 100-meter dash had two OU athletes make the top 10. Leya Buchanan tied for the sixth best result in the 100-meter dash with her 11.51, while Trae Armstrong's time of 10.39 was tied for ninth overall. In the 800-meter run, Grayson Haws ranks ninth in the NCAA with his time of 1:49.79.
Buchanan, Pipi and Roberson, with Bianca Brazil running the opening leg, also made the list in the 4x100-meter relay. They combined to run the sixth best time of 44.35. That time also ranks as the eighth fastest time in school history.
The men's and women's pole vault and the men's long jump all had two Sooners in the top 10. Everette Favor's height of 17-0.75 at the Baldy Castillo Invitational is tied for third. On the women's side, Kenzie Shell's 13-5.25 ties her for seventh. Hayden McClain's PR of 25-0.50 and Greg Vann's 24-5.75 have them fourth and sixth, respectively, in the long jump.
Rounding out OU's impressive first week performances were Ashley Bryant in the hammer with her 200-7 distance, placing her sixth in the nation, and Gabby Kearney's 166-7 in the javelin, placing her 10th overall. Kearney's result was also the fifth best throw in school history.
Within the Big 12, the results also put these student-athletes at the top of the conference. Haws, Burcham, Armstrong, the 4x100 and 4x400 relays, Favor, Shell, McClain and Bryant all have the top mark in the conference. Buchanan, Vann and Kearney currently second in their specialty among Big 12 athletes.
Oklahoma's next test will come this weekend when the Sooners travel to Arlington, Texas, for the Bobby Lane Invitational.
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