May 28, 2001
Final Results From NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships
The Truman State University womens track & field team finished with 8.5 points for 31st place at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships in Edwardsville, Ill., on May 24-26, while the Bulldog men finished in a 40th place tie with four points.
The scoring for the Bulldog womens team came in three events, the pole vault, 100-meter hurdles and 4x400-meter relay. Senior Kristi Morton (Mexico, Mo.) tied for sixth in the pole vault on Friday afternoon with a vault of 11-9.75". In Saturdays action, junior Megan Williams (Columbia, Mo./Hickman) came in seventh in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.18 seconds and the womens 4x400-meter relay team of junior Kasye Hahn (St. Louis/Horton Watkins), freshman Sara Jessen (Brookfield, Mo.), junior Jamille Curry (Chicago, Ill./Morgan Park) and freshman Candi Jones (Oskaloosa, Iowa) brought home the womens best finish of the championships, a fifth-place mark in a school-record time 3:45.67. That time beat the teams previous school mark set on Friday (3:46.42) and one the same group set earlier this year of 3:46.51.
It marked the second outdoor all-America honor for Morton in the pole vault as she also achieved the status last season. For Williams, it was also her second outdoor all-America performance after she won all-America honors last year. Hahn and Curry also became two-time all-Americas, while Jessen and Jones reached the honor for the first time in their careers.
On the mens side, sophomore Jake Kingery (Monroe, Iowa/Prairie City-Monroe) scored all of the Bulldogs points by placing fifth for all-America honors in the decathlon with a point total of 6,743 points.
Elsewhere in Saturdays final-day action, it was junior Karena Singleton (Glenwood, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) placing 12th in the triple jump with a final leap of 11.69 meters. On the mens side, sophomore Matt Helbig (Fenton, Mo./Rockwood Summit) finished 11th in the 1500-meter run in 4:03.45.
Recapping previous action in the meet, on Thursday, the lone final including a Bulldog competitor was the womens 10,000-meter run when junior Beth Luebbering (St. Thomas, Mo./Helias) was 15th in 38:14.74. Also in womens preliminary action, Hahn and Curry finished ninth and 16th, respectively, in the 400-meter dash with times of 57.04 and 58.01 seconds. Hahn finished a mere one-hundredth of a second out of the eighth and final transfer spot to the final. Freshman Jackie McDuffey (Pineville, Mo./McDonald County) was 15th in the preliminary of the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 62.95 seconds. Sophomore Jill Lowry (Jefferson City, Mo.) placed 20th in the preliminary of the womens 100-meter dash (12.43).
On the men's side from Thursday, senior Dan McDonald (Hermann, Mo.) placed 12th in the preliminary of the 400-meter dash (49.15). In the mens 100-meter dash, freshman Brian Dzingai (Harare, Zimbabwe/St. Georges) was third in the preliminary with a time of 10.41 seconds, but then narrowly missed advancing to the final when he charted a ninth-place time of 10.72 seconds in the semifinals.
Fridays men's action saw Kingery finish fifth in the decathlon, while junior Dave Mayhew (Prior Lake, Minn./Academy of Holy Angels) came in 15th in the preliminary of the 110-meter hurdles (15.19 seconds). Dzingai wound up 10th in the preliminary of the 200-meter dash (21.90). In addition to Mortons sixth-place tie in the pole vault, womens competition had Lowry and Singleton 19th and 21st, respectively, in the 200-meter dash with times of 25.69 and 26.13 seconds.
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