The opening day of the NCAA Division II Out of doors Observe and Subject Championships was profitable for HBCU athletes, with 9 whole advancing previous the preliminary spherical into their respective occasion finals.
Lincoln (MO)’s Shevanae Thomas was the primary HBCU athlete to advance to an occasion closing, making it into the ladies’s 400m closing as an automated qualifier after ending second in her warmth with a 52.24 time.
Then, it was CIAA 100m champion Brianna Benloss of Winston-Salem State squeaking into the ladies’s 100m closing in a good warmth, closing with an 11.39 time.
She beat Lincoln (MO) sprinter Shantae George, who fell wanting the 100m closing after placing up an 11.42 mark.
On the lads’s facet, Tyson Williams of Johnson C. Smith and Kibren Moore of Albany State every pushed via to the 100m closing, operating 10.03 and 10.12, respectively.
The 400 hurdles was probably the most profitable occasion for HBCU athletes on the primary day of the DII Out of doors Championships, coincidentally, the occasion with the best HBCU presence.
Along with Albany State’s Nathalia Rowe snatching the ultimate qualifying spot for the ladies’s 400 hurdles, 4 males’s athletes claimed a spot within the finals, together with three as automated qualifiers.
Lincoln (MO)’s Sharim Hamilton was the primary to advance, successful the primary warmth in 50.57 seconds. Subsequent was Johnson C. Smith’s Mohamed Adoini, ending second within the second warmth at 51.10.
The ultimate automated qualifier was Claflin’s Jaevon Riley, who ran the second-best time of all preliminary runners, 50.37. Lincoln (MO)’s Clinton Laguerre rounds out the sphere, getting in as a time qualifier after posting a 50.92 time.
Within the discipline occasions, a pair of HBCU athletes completed within the high 5 of the lads’s lengthy soar.
Lincoln (MO)’s Wesley Tyndall positioned third, measuring a personal-best 7.68m soar, whereas Benedict’s Zach Washington completed fifth in a 7.61m mark.
Day two of the NCAA Division II Out of doors Observe and Subject Championships resumes tomorrow and might be watched dwell on NCAA.com.
