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Carolina prepares for NCAA Track and Field Championships
The following are USC's qualifiers with their marks/times.
Greig Cryer was the runner-up in the long jump at the NCAA East Region Championship.
 
Greig Cryer was the runner-up in the long jump at the NCAA East Region Championship.

May 30, 2006

Columbia, SC - Fresh off South Carolina's women winning its second straight NCAA East Region Track and Field title and the men finishing a program-high third, the Gamecock track teams are preparing for the NCAA Championships June 7-10 in Sacramento. The women qualified nine individuals in eight events and both its 4x100m relay and its 4x400m relay. The men qualified four individuals in five events in addition to its 4x400m relay.

The women finished as the runner-up to Texas last year, while the men finished 26th. The USC women join only the Texas women, Arkansas men and the UCLA women as the only four programs nationally to finish in the top 10 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships the past 10 years, beginning with its ninth place finish in 1996. USC's women won the school's first NCAA title in any sport in 2002. The women have finished in the top five of the last six years with the men finishing in the top 11 five times in the last 10 years.

The following are USC's qualifiers with their marks/times. Also included is where they are seeded on the national list.

NCAA Championship Men's Qualifiers

NameEventHometownMark/TimeNCAA Seed
Greig CryerLong JumpCharleston, S.C.7.85m8th
Leroy Dixon100mSouth Bend, Ind.10.2415th
 200m 20.7014th
Thomas Hilliard400m hurdlesRaleigh, N.C.50.5516th
Jason Richardson110m hurdlesCedar Hill, Texas13.362nd
 400m hurdles 49.909th
4x400m relay3:04.624th
Keith HinnantBay Shore, N.Y.
Thomas HilliardRaleigh, N.C.
Jamil JamesMarabella, Trinidad
Jason RichardsonCedar Hill, Texas
4x400m Relay Alternates:
Jussi HeikkilaVirrat, Finland
Jon FortenberryMarietta, Ga.
 
NCAA Championship Women's Qualifiers
NameEventHometownMark/TimeNCAA Seed
Precious AkinsDiscusCharleston, S.C.56.61m7th
Ronnetta Alexander100m hurdlesWilliamsville, N.Y.13.0811th
Nastsha Hastings400mRosedale, N.Y.51.563rd
Chiquita Martin100m hurdlesAnderson, S.C.13.2928th
 400m hurdles59.0820th
Amberly Nesbitt100mGreenville, N.C.11.1811th
Shay Shelton800mMesquite, Texas2:06.8123rd
Stephanie Smith400mMacon, Ga.53.2824th
Shalonda Solomon100mInglewood, Calif.11.072nd
 200m22.302nd
Cheryl TerrioPole VaultFlorence, S.C.4.08m22nd
4x100m relay (in order relay time listed was run)43.634th
Nasthsa HastingsRosedale, N.Y.
Amberly NesbittGreenville, S.C.
Faraign GilesVirginia Beach, Va.
Shalonda SolomonInglewood, Calif.
4x100m relay alternates
Ronnetta AlexanderWilliamsville, N.Y.
KeKe ClarkeWest Palm Beach, Fla.
4x400m relay (in order relay times listed was run)3:31.818th
Chiquita MartinAnderson, S.C.
Stephanie SmithMacon, Ga.
Faraign GilesVirginia Beach, Va.
Natasha HastingsRosedale, N.Y.
4x400m relay alternates
Shay Shelton
Shalonda Solomon

 

 

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