Five WVIAC T&F Standouts Meet NCAA Provisional Marks
4/8/2010 11:54:42 PM
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(PRINCETON, W.Va.)---Five WVIAC track and field athletes have already achieved NCAA Division II Outdoor Championship provisional marks or times.
West Virginia Wesleyan's Meghan Zayas and Ricky Kump, Concord's Shawnee Carnette, Seton Hill's Nick Spino, and Wheeling Jesuit's Emily Taylor are the WVIAC athletes to have recorded the provisional marks.
Invitations to compete at the May 27-29 national championship meet in Charlotte hosted by Johnson C. Smith University are based on the number athletes recording automatic or provisional marks or times in each events. To date, no league athlete has achieved an automatic mark or time.
A list of the WVIAC provisional qualifiers and their events and times follows:
| Athlete |
School |
Cl. |
Event |
Time/Mark |
Competition |
| Emily Taylor |
Wheeling Jesuit |
Jr. |
Discus |
147'1" |
Bill Van Horn Inv. |
| Meghan Zayas |
WV Wesleyan |
Jr. |
Steeplechase |
11:09.57 |
Duke Inv. |
| Ricky Kump |
Wheeling Jesuit |
Sr. |
Decathlon |
6,569 pts |
Charlotte 49'er Classic |
| Shawnee Carnett |
Concord |
Fr. |
800m |
2:12.34 |
Duke Inv. |
| Nick Spino |
Seton Hill |
Soph. |
400m hurdles |
53.63 |
Coastal Carolina Inv. |