NCAA West Regional—Women

[bruce3404]

Ducks fans happy about results of E and W Regionals. Based on T&FN form chart revisions, Ducks now favored to win both men's and women's titles. Both Florida men and Texas women suffered the most from regionals with the failures of Florida's Bates to Q in either TJ or LJ and the injury to TXs Okolo and PVer Petrilosse's failure to qualify. Every projected Duck scorer moved on, with a total of 45 athletes split almost equally between men's and women's squads. Will be interesting to see the revised charts which will include performances at Regionals.

[26mi235]

Just saw that Allie Saunders (SR - Texas State) went 13.64(44-9)/-2.3 on her third attempt. However, I am not sure that I trust those wind readings, as some other athletes had positive winds of similar sizes -- although I just checked and those were in Flight 3, not Flight 4 with the winning jump (and a lot of negative winds).

I also noticed that Raven Saunders had a mediocre series: 16:26 F 16.34 and was only sixth.

[26mi235]

I still think that O'Connor will repeat as Steeple champ; she reeled off a 9:35, besting the 9:38 of Quigley run two heats earlier.

[26mi235]

Not sure that the women's 1500 will be lacking. Here is just one of the 'quarterfinals' from the East Region.

1	Rhianwedd Price	SO	Miss State	4:10.95	Q		1 (1)
2	Marta Freitas	JR	Miss State	4:13.17	Q		1 (2)
3	Stephanie Schappert	SR	Villanova	4:13.26	Q		1 (3)
4	Katrina Coogan	JR	Georgetown	4:13.53	Q		1 (4)
5	Amanda Smith	SR	Virginia Tech	4:14.01	Q		1 (5)
6	Angel Piccirillo	JR	Villanova	4:15.44	q		1 (6)
7	Linden Hall	SR	Florida State	4:16.97	q		1 (7)

[CKuykendall]

Jasmine Todd again smoked the 100, and Jasmine Prandini won her 100 handily and advanced easily in the 200 with a 22.98 (+1.4). Very impressive also was Missouri-Kansas City junior Courtney Frerichs, who ran 9:48.30. (The announcer said this was an NCAA West Regional record. She had a 9:32.12 earlier at Payton Jordan.) Frerichs looks really clean over the water jumps and almost so over the barriers.

[CKuykendall]

In the second heat of the steeplechase, Karoline Skatteboe of SMU, from Norway, fell badly on the very first hurdle. This led to a restart of the race, but only after 20-30 minutes of numerous medical personnel preparing her for stretcher transport to an ambulance. The SMU women's track & field webpage quotes the head coach, ""Karoline is laughing and smiling as of 11 p.m...tonight. We hope she will be okay and will learn from this." The laughing and smiling part is good, because it looked pretty serious.

[booond]

Raevyn Rogers with a nice qualifying time 2:02.5. Didn't see the race so I'm not sure how hard she ran.

[DCSIGMA]

Prandini's heat is the only one w/legal wind.....texas got some serious wind.

[ATK]

Jamin Todd 10.89w +4.0 great time nonetheless

She just followed up with a 10.88 +3.7 in the quarterfinals

[26mi235]

Pretty good discus throwing for a Regional qualifying meet

1	Shelbi Vaughan	60.93m
JR - Texas A&M	199-11
Flight: 3
2	Kelsey Card	59.91m
JR - Wisconsin	196-6
Flight: 3
3	Samantha Hall	58.50m
JR - UTEP	191-11
Flight: 3

[ATK]

TX probably still has the guns to compete well in the 4x4 and win it;

Not really unfortunately. After Okolo, Basiden, Spencer and Akinosun, the drop off is pretty significant in the sprints. Florida, who are also have the fastest time this season so far, would probably have an easier time of getting another leg should they loose one like Texas just did. And remember, Okolo split 49.5 last year. That's probably a close to full second faster than most ladies can produce.

[booond]

They are far better! They are both in the mix at the top in the WORLD not just at the NCAA level.

Calm down!

[GoCard37]

Todd and Prandini are the Cheserek/Jenkins on the women's side of the Oregon team.

They are far better! They are both in the mix at the top in the WORLD not just at the NCAA level.

[dpasv]

Olivia Ekpone failed to advance in the 100, finishing 34th with a time of 11.58+3.8w.

I've wondered what has happened this year with Purvis, Ekpone and Kamaria Brown. Injuries perhaps? Though I noticed the younger ladies have been doing quite well.

[booond]

Todd and Prandini are the Cheserek/Jenkins on the women's side of the Oregon team.