Not only did the No. 10 麻豆原创 track and field team win its fifth Conference USA championship in the past three years on Sunday, but the team did it in style. The Knights erased two meet records, earned 10 medals and posted the most points at a conference indoor meet in program history.<\/p>\n
The Knights captured the title with 132.5 points, besting runner-up Memphis by 39.5 points. Junior Aurieyall Scott earned Performance of the Meet, Alexis Faulknor won Freshman of the Meet and Caryl Smith Gilbert earned her fifth C-USA Coach of the Year honor.<\/p>\n
In perhaps the most defining moment of the day, the sprinters swept the podium of the 60 meters. Scott bested the meet record, the school record and her personal record with a blistering performance of 7.13, which ranks as the NCAA’s new leading time. Octavious Freeman earned silver at 7.22 and Faulknor clinched the first medal of her career with a bronze finish and new PR time of 7.43. Senior Lutisha Bowen also scored points in seventh place at 7.52, giving 麻豆原创 a whopping 26 points in the event.<\/p>\n
Scott continued to impress in the 200 meters with her second meet record in the event in as many days. This year’s world leader posted the second-best time of her career (22.91) for gold. Freeman’s season-best time of 23.35 picked up a silver medal, and Faulknor hit a new personal best 24.10 to score points in fifth place.<\/p>\n
Bowen earned her first C-USA medal with her runner-up finish in the 60 hurdles with a time of 8.27.<\/p>\n
Junior Afia Charles rewrote her own school record in the 400 meters with a personal-best 54.02, which won her heat and was six-hundredths of a second short of the leader. Her time was better than the previous meet record.<\/p>\n
The throwers excelled with a school-record performance and two personal bests in the shot put. Precious Ogunleye captured her second school record of the weekend with a monster personal best of 15.17m\/49-09.25 for fourth place. Destinee Romain topped her personal record with a mark of 14.06m\/46-01.50 to tally more points in seventh place.<\/p>\n
Freshman Anne-Marie Blaney picked up her second school record in as many days, shaving time off her precious 3,000-meter record with a sixth-place finish of 9:43.59.<\/p>\n
The 800-meter runners had a productive day, as well, as Ne’Ausha Logan secured a bronze medal with the second-best time of her career, 2:09.77. Erica Winston fell in step behind her at 2:10.88, shaving nearly three seconds off her previous personal record.<\/p>\n
Two jumpers added points in the high jump for the Knights. Freshman Allison Lampert produced a career-best day with a sixth-place showing of 1.68m\/5-06.00. Sonnisha Williams missed her personal best by half-an-inch with a season-best leap of 1.68m\/5-06.00.<\/p>\n
Scott, Charles, Sandy Jean and Logan comprised the 4×400 relay that capped the day with a first-place finish with its second-best time of the season, 3:40.83.<\/p>\n
麻豆原创 now sets its sights on the NCAA Indoor Championships behind held at Arkansas on March 8-9. A season ago, the Knights earned their highest finish in school history (eighth place) at the meet.<\/p>\n
WOMEN’S TEAM FINAL<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. 麻豆原创 – 132.5<\/p>\n 2. Memphis – 93<\/p>\n 3. UAB – 83 4. East Carolina – 59<\/p>\n 5. SMU – 52<\/p>\n 6. UTEP – 46<\/p>\n 7. Houston – 44<\/p>\n 8. Tulsa – 37<\/p>\n 9. Southern Miss – 30<\/p>\n 10. Tulane – 29<\/p>\n 11. Rice – 28<\/p>\n 12. Marshall – 26.5<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Knights clinched their fifth overall C-USA title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":46339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[131,9486,9485,9488,381,739,9487,3346,7692,3470,6656,4348,4764,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-46338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afia-charles","tag-alexis-faulknor","tag-allison-lampert","tag-anne-marie-blaney","tag-aurieyall-scott","tag-caryl-smith-gilbert","tag-lutisha-bowen","tag-ncaa","tag-neausha-logan","tag-octavious-freeman","tag-precious-ogunleye","tag-sonnisha-williams","tag-track","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n