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3-PEAT!!! Lincoln Women Win 3rd-Straight MIAA Outdoor Title!
Hays, KS - For the third year in a row, the Lincoln University
women’s outdoor track & field team won the MIAA Championship.
The Blue Tigers won 11 events, set seven automatic qualifying
times, broke one meet record and totaled 217 points to win the
2013 MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Championship, which was
hosted by Fort Hays State.
Twishana Williams was named the meet’s High Point Scorer,
after winning two races and tallying second-place and thirdplace
results in two others. Williams took the crown in both the
1,500-meters (4:33.37) and 5,000-meters (17:51.18) events and
was the runner-up in the 10,000-meters run (36:53.89). She
also took third in the 800-meters, an event that was won by
teammate Lovan Palmer in 2:09.66, a new MIAA Championship
record. Monique Thompson also represented LU in that race,
finishing sixth with a time of 2:17.10.
Donna-Lee Hylton won two events with automatic qualifying
times for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships. Hylton
won the 200-meters dash in 23.70, beating Yanique Ellington,
who was the race’s runner-up in 24.20. Hylton helped LU sweep
the top-three in the 400-meters dash, taking the race in 53.55.
Yanique Haye took second in the 400 with an automatic time of
53.70, while Michelle Cumberbatch placed third (54.75).
Haye set an automatic time of her own in the 400-meters hurdles,
leading four Blue Tigers in the top eight with a win in 59.14.
Cumberbatch took second (59.54), while Juneille Barker finished
fourth (1:01.55) and Marcia Harrison placed sixth (1:02.68).
Lincoln swept the hurdles events, with Anna-Kay James winning
the 100-meters race with a mark of 13.55. Barker was the runnerup
in the 100-meters hurdles (13.92), while Toni-Ann Moore took
fifth (14.23).
Lincoln also swept the relay events, winning the 4x100-meters
in 45.24 and the 4x400-meters in 3:42.42. Both times stand as
automatic qualifiers. LU’s final track victory came in the 100-
meters dash, where Yanique Ellington took the crown in 11.81.
Cardine Copeland finished second, clocking in at 11.89, while
Moore placed fifth (12.07).
Sheri Kaye Campbell had a productive meet in the field events,
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scoring points in three events for the Blue Tigers. Campbell,
who finished eighth in the heptathlon (4,277 points), was the
runner-up in the high jump with a distance of 1.70 meters. She
was also the victor in the triple jump, winning the event with a
mark of 12.44 meters.
Three other LU athletes turned in strong performances in the
field events. Daniele Newman placed third in the triple jump
(11.93 meters), while Jonelle Campbell took fourth (11.89
meters). Sanchia Lee scored points for Lincoln in two events,
finishing sixth in the triple jump (11.45 meters) and eighth in the
long jump (5.41 meters). Nickeisha Beaumont, meanwhile, took
fifth in the long jump (5.76 meters).
The Blue Tigers, who also won the 2011 and 2012 MIAA Outdoor
Track & Field Championships, scored 217 team points to win
their third-straight league title. Lincoln finished with over 100
points more than second place Pittsburg State (108 points),
while Missouri Southern took third with 79.50. Emporia State
(78.50) and Central Missouri (76.50) were close behind, taking
fourth and fifth, respectively, while Truman State scored 49 points
to finish in a distant sixth. Lindenwood (44), Fort Hays State
(38.50), Nebraska-Kearney (38), Southwest Baptist (30),
Northwest Missouri (29) and Central Oklahoma (28) rounded
out the field.
Men’s Soccer Player
Matt Wright is Valedictorian
for HSSU Class of 2013
Senior forward for the Harris-Stowe
State University men’s soccer team,
Matt Wright will serve as
Valedictorian for the class of 2013
at Harris-Stowe. Wright was a
member of the HSSU men’s soccer
team from 2008-2012. Wright also
earned three American Midwest
Conference Academic All-Conference Awards for maintaining a
cumulative grade point average over a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, and
two Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete Awards for maintaining a
cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.