Okay, after searching for a couple of hours for results from the NCAA Division II Outdoor National Championships, I have finally found the results. The results might be a little jumbled up because there was rain in Walnut, California and some of the events were delayed by three hours. So with nothing posted on usdcoyotes.com, I am going through the events individually that certain Coyotes participated in.
The 4×100 relay squad, which includes junior Jenessa Filler, junior Shaneka Parkes, freshman Emma Erickson, and senior Steph Gebhart, participated in the preliminaries today. The squad placed seventh in prelims with a time of :46.50.
Gebhart also ran in the prelims for the 400 meter dash and placed eighth with a time of :55.25.
Okay, I thought this part would be longer, but the rain moved one event to tomorrow and that is the 10,000 meter run which sophomore Ramsey Kavan is participating in.
The rest of the prelims will be conducted tomorrow, pending weather of course, and final events will be held on Saturday. The field events are spread out throughout today, tomorrow, and Saturday. Stay tuned to this blog as I will keep it updated with what happens.
Also, head women’s track coach Lucky Huber bagged another award on Wednesday. Huber was named the USTFCCA, as I mentioned in the last blog that is a LONG abbreviation, National Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year.
Huber, who is in his 14th season at USD, won the award for the second time in his career. He was also the national coach of the year in 2004. Have I said before he is totally prepared to lead the track team to Division-I? Oh and anytime I EVER do an interview with him, he always mentions student-athletes for any athlete because he wants the student part to come first and they are here to be students first. Talk about getting it, someone point OJ Mayo in Huber’s direction.
Also, eight Coyote track and field athletes were named to the Academic All-NCC Track and Field Teams:
Senior Colte Haines, 3.88 GPA in mathematics and computer science, it’s Haines third time making the Academic All-NCC team
Junior Ben Walters, 3.46 GPA in biology, it’s Walters second time making the Academic All-NCC team
Senior Matt Yaggie 3.61 GPA in psychology, it’s Yaggie’s second time making the Academic All-NCC team
Junior Preston Scott, 3.43 GPA in computer science
Senior Katie Cerling, 3.66 GPA in accounting and history
Senior Steph Gebhart, 3.53 GPA in psychology
Junior Lindsay House, 3.72 GPA in psychology
Junior Shaneka Parkes, 3.53 GPA in health and physical education and recreation
That’s all I have for tonight, it’s starting to rain pretty good here, so hopefully that is the rain from Walnut so the track and field competitions can continue tomorrow! Stay tuned everyone as the Coyotes finish Division II competition this weekend.
——-Justin Rust
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