HBCU Athletes Take Four National Indoor Track Championships
NCCU grabs two individual titles; St. Aug's men and women
finish second overall
March 15, 2002
HBCU athletes placed well in the 2002 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston last Saturday.
North Carolina Central University's Jason Smoots and Katerina Glosova were joined by St. Augustine's Libia Rodriquez, Lincoln's Kevin Bartlett and the St. Aug men's 4X400M relay team as national champions.
St. Augustine's men's and women's teams finished second overall. Lincoln's women were 8th while the Lady Eagles of NCCU finished 10th.
Twenty-five HBCU athletes and five relay teams earned All-America Honors in the event.
Smoots, hailing from Gadsden, Alabama, successfully defended his
indoor national title by winning the men's 60-meter dash with a time of
6.66 seconds. The next closest competitor, Tom Green of South Dakota,
crossed the line in 6.73.
Now a three-time national champion, Smoots has yet to finish
behind a collegiate runner during the indoor season. He placed first in
the second heat of Friday's preliminary round with a time of 6.72.
Glosova, a native of the Czech Republic who had failed to earn
individual All-America honors in three prior trips to NCAA track events,
ended her collegiate indoor career as a national champion by winning the
women's 800m run with a time of 2:08.73.
Rodriguez won the 400M dash where four CIAA athletes finished in the top 8 positions.
HBCU All-Americans in Division II Indoor Track & Field
- Cadriesha Akinfe - St. Augustine's - Long Jump
- Nikkisha Maynard - Lincoln - Long Jump
- Libia Rodriquez - St. Augustine's - 400M Dash
- Shakirah Rutherford - St. Augustine's - 400M Dash
- Georgia Mullings - St. Augustine's - 400M Dash
- Kennisha Moten - North Carolina Central - 400M Dash
- Katerina Glosova - North Carolina Central - 800M
- Samayah Islam - St. Augutine's - 60M Hurdles
- Kristen Collins - Lincoln - 60M Hurdles
- Nikkisha Howard - Lincoln - 60M Hurdles
- Anna Techmaker - St. Augutine's - 60M Dash
- Carlene Cummings - St. Augustine's - Triple Jump
- Kevin Bartlett - Lincoln - Long Jump & 60M Dash
- Maurice English - St. Augustine's - Long Jump
- Jason Smoots - North Carolina Central - 60M Dash
- Jordan Vaden - Livingstone - 60M Dash
- Unyime Akpan - St. Augustine's - 60M Hurdles
- Anwar Moore - St. Augustine's - 60M Hurdles
- Derrick Blount - Virginia State - 60M Hurdles
- Dane Maglorie - St. Augustine's - Triple Jump
- Ray Benjamin - St. Augustine's - Triple Jump
- Steven Enoch - North Carolina Central - Triple Jump
- Anthony Campbell - St. Augustine's - 400M Dash
- Nathaniel McKinney - St. Augustine's - 400M Dash
- Lincoln women - 4X400M Relay
- North Carolina Central women - 4X400M Relay
- St. Augustine's Women - 4X400M Relay
- St. Augustine's Men - 4X400M Relay
- Lincoln men - 4X400M Relay
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