Women's Track Set For Big East Championships

April 30, 2010

PITTSBURGH—Opening post season action, this weekend, qualifying members of Pitt’s women’s track and field team will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio for the 31st Big East Outdoor Championships. Held at Gettler Stadium for the first time in championship history, competition begins Friday, April 30, at 11 a.m. and concludes on Sunday, May 2, with the men’s 4x400M relay at 2:35 p.m.

Sophomore Cambrya Jones leads the squad in the sprints, posting berths in two individual events. Jones has turned in a season-best 11.67 finish in the 100M dash. She will be joined by junior Da’Lynn Mills and freshman Ashley Woodford in that same event.

Jones will also run in the 200M dash. Mills holds the team-best time of 23.86 in that event, while freshman Jonnique Lawrence and senior Kaetlyn Brown round out those qualifying in the 200M dash.

In addition to competing in the 200M event, Lawrence and Brown qualified for the open 400M dash. Represent Pitt in the 80M run is sophomore Miya Johnson, who is making her first appearance at the conference meet.

Pitt’s relays look to make a strong showing, as well. First, the 400M relay team of Woodford, Mills, Lawrence and Jones posted a season-best time of 45.65, earlier this season. That time is below the 2009 NCAA regional qualifying mark.

Then, in the final event of the meet, the 1,600M relay will consist of senior Brianna Broyles, Jones, Lawrence and Brown. They turned in a season-best during the Penn Relays, where they finished at 3:42.52 in the ECAC heat.

Broyles leads the squad in the hurdle events. Her times in the 100M and 400M hurdles have both bested last year’s regional standards. She has recorded a 13.88 and a 59.44, respectively, on the season.

Broyles will be joined by freshmen Brittany Carroll and Elizabeth Kline in the 100M hurdles, while Kline qualified for the 400M hurdles.

Freshman Rachael McIntosh and junior Kaitlyn Flynn will represent the Panthers in the heptathlon. McIntosh, a Big East Performer of the Meet, also qualified individually in the high jump.

In the other jumps, junior Anita James looks to improve upon her third-place finish at last year’s conference championship. She boasts a team-best leap of 12.02 in the triple jump and will be joined by classmate Wumni Fapohunda in the event. James and Fapohunda will also compete alongside and against one another in the long jump. James recorded an ECAC berth with a 5.81 jump in the Penn Relays, last weekend.

Junior Victoria Toso qualified for the conference championships in the pole vault, while classmate Leah Ulizio earned a seed in the meet when she darted the javelin 37.18M in the first meet of the outdoor season.

Several Panthers will represent Pitt in the throws. First, junior Sarah Anderson is one of three hurlers that will compete in the hammer throw. Anderson leads the squad with a toss of 51.67 and will be joined by junior Kayla Comrie and sophomore Robin Gilmore in that event.

Anderson also qualified to compete in the discus along with teammate Alexis Wilder.

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100M dash
Cambrya Jones
Da’Lynn Mills
Ashley Woodford

200M dash
Jonnique Lawrence
Kaetlyn Brown
Cambrya Jones
Da’Lynn Mills

400M dash
Jonnique Lawrence
Kaetlyn Brown

100M hurdles
Brianna Broyles
Brittany Carroll
Elizabeth Kline

400M hurdles
Brianna Broyles
Elizabeth Kline

800M
Miya Johnson

Discus
Sarah Anderson
Alexis Wilder

Hammer Throw
Sarah Anderson
Kayla Comrie
Robin Gilmore

Javelin
Leah Ulizio

Long Jump
Folarin Ijelu
Caleb Matthews