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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Sooner T&F Head to Kansas, Texas and California :: OU sends athletes to three meets this week.
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Raoul Harvey and his Sooner relay teammates will head to the Michael Johnson Classic this weekend looking to improve their NCAA provisional time. |
April 16, 2002
NORMAN, Okla. - In an attempt to beat the unpredictable spring weather that has plagued them this season, the Sooner track and field teams will send competitors to three different meets this week.
A pair of Sooner combined athletes, Taylor Cates and Chaundra Allard, as well as co-head coach Jill Lancaster leave today for the Kansas Relays. Competition in the heptathlon begins Wednesday and the seven-event competition ends on Thursday.
Leslie Dunlap, Michael Westlund and Michael McNamara, as well as vault coach Tom Williams, will travel to the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut, Calif., for competition on Saturday. Westlund and McNamara are in the men's invitational pole vault at 4 p.m. (Pacific time) Saturday while Dunlap is entered in the women's invitational pole vault which begins at 7 p.m.
The rest of the Sooners will head to Waco, Texas, Friday for the Michael Johnson/Southwestern Bell Classic, hosted by Baylor University. Four field events, men's and women's pole vault and hammer, as well as the men's and women's steeplechase will be held on Friday with the remainder of the schedule slated to begin at 9 a.m. (field events) and noon (running events) on Saturday.
Participating Teams at the MJ/SWB Classic
Joining the host Bears and Sooners in the meet will be men's and women's teams from Sam Houston, Seton Hall, Stephen F. Austin, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Tech, Tulsa, North Texas, Texas-Arlington, Texas-Pan American and Texas-San Antonio. Women's squads from New Mexico State, Alabama-Birmingham, and Memphis also will be in the field.
The Last Time Out
It was going to take more than stormy weather to halt the 33rd annual John Jacobs Invitational Saturday for the University of Oklahoma track and field teams. When the rain and storms finally quit Saturday afternoon, the competition began and the OU men's 1600-meter relay took full advantage of the clearing weather, posting a 3:06.49 to win the event and post its first NCAA provisional time of the outdoor season.
Senior Ernest Lewis ran the opening leg and got the Sooners out to a lead they would not lose. Raoul Harvey, Aldwyn Sappleton and Moses Washington ran the final three legs as OU held off an all-star team of former Sooners and Barton County to win with a time that was nearly four seconds faster than any previous OU 1600-meter relay mark this season. It also beat the NCAA provisional standard by just over one second.
Double winners for OU included Sappleton, who ran the third leg of OU's winning 1600-meter relay and ran a season-best 1:52.00 to win the 800; LaKisha Robinson and Lameisa Thomas, who were on OU's winning 400- and 1600-meter relays; and Tiffany Davis, on OU's 400-meter relay and the winner of the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Amanda Warehime and Megan Crystal posted season bests to finish one-two in the shot put, then reversed the finish with Crystal posting a career best to win the discus.
Big 12 Athlete of the Week
Sophomore Leslie Dunlap became a three-time winner of Big 12 Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors March 18, earning the award the first week of the outdoor season. She had won twice during the indoor season.
NCAA Update
Sophomore Leslie Dunlap became OU's first provisional qualifier for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with her winning vault at the Hurricane Invitational March 16. It marked the 11th consecutive meet for her to clear at least a provisional mark. She was joined on the provisional list by the men's 1600-meter relay team which had a season-best 3:06.49 to win the John Jacobs Invitational.
Next Up
Those athletes with qualifying marks will head to the Drake Relays next week. In another schedule change, the Sooner Outdoor, originally set for April 27, has been cancelled because of the construction around the Jacobs Track Complex. Instead, those Sooners who don't go to Des Moines will travel to a triangular in Denton. Joining OU will be Texas-Arlington and host North Texas.
