An HBCU sprinter qualified for 200-meter final in near photo finish at the NCAA D2 championships

Following a powerful first day on the NCAA Division II Outside Observe & Subject Championships, 9 HBCU athletes certified for occasion finals.

Lincoln (MO) sprinter Shantae George claimed the ultimate qualifying spot for the ladies’s 200m by .002 seconds.

George’s teammate, Shaneal-Clarke Giddings, superior to the ladies’s 800m finals, mechanically qualifying after ending second in her preliminary warmth.

George and Clarke-Giddings weren’t completed, powering Lincoln’s girls’s 4×400 relay crew into the finals, working the quickest time of all preliminary groups.

Their males’s 4×400 relay crew joined them later, clocking of their greatest time of the season at 3:05.88.

Elsewhere, Claflin’s Zion Murray certified for the lads’s 800m finals, snatching the ultimate spot after working a 1:49.45.

Having already clinched a berth within the males’s 100m closing, Johnson C. Smith’s Tyson Williams and Albany State’s Kibren Moore every certified for the 200m closing after working 20.42 and 20.53, respectively.

Lastly, Winston-Salem State’s Charnessa Reid moved on to the finals of the ladies’s 100 hurdles, cruising via her warmth in 13.20 seconds.

The sphere occasions had been additionally sort to HBCU athletes as Bowie State’s Yassine Kamara claimed third place within the finals of the ladies’s Discus Throw, pitching a personal-best 52.53m.

HBCU NCAA Division II Outside Observe & Subject Championship Finalists

Shevanae Thomas, Lincoln (MO): Ladies’s 400m

Brianna Benloss, Winston-Salem State: Ladies’s 100m

Tyson Williams, Johnson C. Smith: Males’s 100m, 200m

Kibren Moore, Albany State: Males’s 100m, 200m

Nathalia Rowe, Albany State: Ladies’s 400 hurdles

Jaevon Riley, Claflin: Males’s 400 hurdles

Sharim Hamilton, Lincoln (MO): Males’s 400 hurdles

Clinton Laguerre, Lincoln (MO): Males’s 400 hurdles

Mohamed Adoini, Johnson C. Smith: Males’s 400 hurdles

Shantae George, Lincoln (MO): Ladies’s 200m

Shaneal Clarke-Giddings, Lincoln (MO): Ladies’s 800m

Zion Murray, Claflin: Males’s 800m

Charnessa Reid, Winston-Salem State: Ladies’s 100 hurdles

Lincoln (MO): Ladies’s, Males’s 4×400 Relay