Feb. 13, 2001
Ames, Iowa - The Western Carolina men's and women's track and field team set 17 indoor season personal bests, 13 all-time indoor personal bests and seven life-time personal bests at the Iowa State Classic Track and Field meet.
The WCU tracksters had a very good showing in the snow coverded medwest this past weekend in Ames, Iowa.
The men's indoor 4x400 relay team of Derrick High, Tim Vaught, Akaba Glaspie and Bola Oyegunwa continued their march toward the NCAA Qualifying time with another record setting performance. The foursome broke the WCU school record for the fourth time this season with a time of 3:11.28, just .88 second away from the NCAA provisional qualifying time.
Also, sophomore Caleb Bailey set a new school record in the 800 meter with a time of 1:53.48. In addition to this, Bailey also clocked 4:17.66 in the mile and ran a blazing 3:03 on the 1200 meter leg of the distance medley relay. Both of these are also personal bests.
The women's distance medley team of Whitney Woods, Roslyn Bingley, Megan Thacker and Holly Bright smashed the school record in the women's DMR with a new record setting time of 12:15.07.
Other WCU men's highlights were in the 200 meter where Akaba Glaspie and Derrick High both ran personal and all-time indoor personal bests of 21.77 and 21.90 respectively. Pole vaulter Charles Rice tied his personal best of 15 feet, seven inches.
For the women in the 200 meter, Ronetta Burgess and Ashelyn Little had the same accomplishments as their male counterparts with times of 25.32 and 25.42 respectively. In the 400 meter Ashelyn Little achieved an all-time indoor personal best of 57.97, while Roslyn Bingley achieved a seasonal best time of 59.30. In the 800 meter Megan Thacker blazed a time of 2:17.70 to better her best indoor performance by four seconds. Up one more distance to the mile, Holly Bright recorded her fastest time ever of 5:13.19. In the long jump, Kamata Potts leaped to an all-time personal best of 18 feet, 10.75 inches and Cedea Bowden bounded to a seasonal best of 18 feet, 9.75 inches.
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"We had a good weekend," stated Head Coach Danny Williamson. "Some things went very will for us. We still have some areas that we must improve upon if we are going to challenge for this year's Southern Conference Indoor Championships with both of our squads. If we as a team can step everything up like some did this past weekend, then we will give ourselves a golden opportunity."
