Track athletes reach NCAA qualifying marks
Two runners
make the cut
Two Kent State track and
field athletes earned NCAA provisional
qualifying marks this
weekend as the team competed
in the Meyo Invitational hosted
by Notre Dame.
Junior Alex Lizarribarr qualified
in the women’s 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:00.50, sixth best
at the meet. Junior Destin
Heasley followed by finishing the
men’s 800-meter run fifth in 1:50.59
to qualify.
Lizarribarr and Heasley join
Dean Wood (high jump), Kenneth
Agee (high jump) and Diana Dumitrescu
(pentathlon) as Flashes who
have provisionally qualified for the
NCAA Championships.
Heasley also took part in the
men’s 4×400-meter relay team with
Matt Moffett, Javon Walker and
Curtis Eaton. The group’s 3:11.58
time was good for fifth place.
Other notable performances
came from senior throwers Tony
Connor and Effua Ampadu. Connor
’s 18.93-meter toss ranked
third place in the men’s division,
and Ampadu took seventh with
her throw of 18.19 meters.
The men’s distance medley
team of Colin Pettiford, Brandon
Bailey, Stephen Fischer and
Michael Heller were second
with a time of 10:01.51. Meanwhile,
the women’s team of
Kelly Gephart, Juliet Alrich, Jessica
Lhotsky and Audrey Maheu
finished fourth in 11:43.38.
The track teams will compete in
the Akron Invitational this weekend
at the Stile Field House.
Contact sports reporter Jody
Michael at [email protected].