2008 Woodie Awards
Track team hosts invite this weekend
Eddie Carmichael
Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: Sports
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Then on May 4 and 5 the team will head to Bethany for the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championships. From May 24-26 the track team will head to Fresno, Calif., for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national outdoor championships.
On April 18 the team competed in the Tabor Invitational and went to the KU Relays April 19-21.
Jim Helmer, head men's track coach, said, "Things went really well at Tabor. We didn't take everybody because we had a group that didn't compete because of the KU Relays." The highlight from the men's side at the Tabor meet was the 4 x 100 relay was the 4 x 100 relay qualifying for nationals. Andrew Pearson also qualified for nationals in the 200.
Helmer said, "The KU Relays we had a really good meet. We placed in several events and with the colleges and universities combined and competing together it's a really really tough competition."
"Aric Cherry ran a provisional qualifier in the 800 meters and finished eighth. The men's 4 x 100 relay finished third, and the two mile relay finished fourth and qualified for nationals."
Mike Kirkland, head women's track coach, said, "Both days or both meets allowed us to get caught up going into the Southwestern Relays this weekend. It gave some of our kids the opportunity to compete in multiple events back to back which we will need to be able to do come conference in two weeks."
A member of the men's 4 x 100 relay Cody Annis, business administration junior, said, "We had three of our four members back from last years qualifying relay so we had expectations to make it back."
" We all were anxious to get back because we didn't perform the way we wanted to last year so we came into this year expecting to make it back."
Eddie Carmichael is a sophomore majoring in communication. You may e-mail him at eddie.carmichael@sckans.edu.
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