Feb. 28, 2009

Florida State Sweeps 2009 ACC Indoor Track & Field Championships

• Saturday Results
• 2009 ACC Indoor Track & Field Championship Site

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Blending several record-setting performances with overall consistency, Florida State took home a pair of team titles as the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships concluded Saturday at Rector Field House.

The Florida State men edged away from the rest of the field to finish with 125 team points, 26.5 ahead of runner-up Virginia Tech (98.5). Virginia (94) place third.

The Seminole women won with 132 team points, 28 ahead of second-place North Carolina (104). Clemson placed third with 85.

The men’s indoor title is the seventh straight for the Florida State men and the Seminoles’ eighth overall. The FSU women broke new ground by claiming their first indoor championship since the school joined the ACC prior to the 1991-92 academic year.

It marks the fourth time one school has won both the ACC Men’s and Women’s Indoor Championships in the same year. Clemson was a double champion in 1992, and North Carolina’s men and women both won in 1995 and 1996.

Clemson’s Jacoby Ford grabbed a share of the spotlight with an eye-popping time of 6.51 in the men’s 60-meter dash.

Ford’s blazing run matched the world’s best 60-meter time posted thus far in 2009 while breaking both the Rector Field House and ACC Men’s Indoor Meet records, which he also held prior to Saturday. Ford posted a time of 6.52 at the 2007 Indoor Championships at Clemson and matched that showing in a meet at Rector earlier this month.

A highly competitive men’s mile run saw Virginia Tech senior Billy Berlin (4:03.69) edge Florida State’s Dan Roberts (4:03.70) for the gold medal. Both runners just beat the NCAA provisional standard of 4:04.00.

Miami’s Cory Nelms had the winning time of 7.95 in the men’s 60-meter hurdles. Michael Bingham broke through for Wake Forest by racing to a gold-medal finish of 46.23 in the men’s 400 meter dash. Virginia Tech’s Ryan Witt’s time of 1:50.74 led the men’s 800-meter run. Florida State’s Charles Clark captured the men’s 200 meter dash at 21.29.

NC State took the top two spots in the men’s 3,000-meter run as gold medal winner Robert Moldovan finished in 8:11.84, less than a second ahead of teammate John Martinez. The Wake Forest 4 x 400 relay team of Allen Lunkenheimer, Jonathan Reid, Tyler Dodds and Bingham led the field with a time of 3:12.01

Georgia Tech’s Steve Marcelle earned a gold in the shot put for the second consecutive year with a throw of 63-05.00. North Carolina’s Austin Davis turned in a gold medal distance of 53-05.75 in the triple jump.

The men’s high jump saw Maryland freshman Dwight Barbiasz place first at 7-02.25. Florida State’s Tim Reen’s silver-medal showing of 7-00.25 keyed a strong showing by the Seminoles in the day’s opening event and brought his team from 9 ½ points down to within a half-point of Friday leader Virginia Tech. That set the stage for Florida State’s strong showing in the running events that produced another indoor title.

The Seminoles also scored big early in the women’s mile as Susan Kuijken raced the distance in an ACC meet-record and personal best time of 4:34.11, shattering the mark of 4:36.91 she set one year ago.

Florida State got an early leg up in women’s field events. Kamorean Hayes delivered a winning throw of 52-02.00 in shot put. That was followed by another record-setting effort in the triple jump, where Kimberly Willaims’ distance of 45-03.00 (13.79 meters) topped the previous record of 13.62 set by North Carolina’s Nicole Gamble in 1999.

Miami’s Murielle Ahoure raced to victory in the women’s 200 meters is a time of 23.16, breaking her own meet record set one day earlier during qualifying.

Another meet record was tied in the women’s 60-meter hurdles as Virginia Tech’s Kristi Castlin posted a time of 8.03. That tied the standard set by Georgia Tech’s Shantia Moss in 2007.

Virginia Tech’s Asia Washington’s time of 54.18 earned a gold medal in the women’s 400-meter dash. The women’s 60-meter dash saw Miami’s Ahoure register another winning time of 7.22. Boston College’s Caitlin Bailey took the women’s 800-meter run in 2:08.

North Carolina’s Brie Felnagle ran to a first-place finish in the women’s 3,000 meters in 9:25.97. The Tar Heel women then closed out the running events by setting a new ACC Championship record in the 4 x 400 relay. Christine Johnson, Elizabeth Mott, Callie Pottinger and Tasha Stanley combined for the record mark of 3:38.40.

The women’s pole vault played out in unusual fashion as Abigail Schaffer of Virginia Tech claimed the gold medal at 4.10 – and three other student-athletes tied for the silver medal at 4.00.

 

 

Men's Final Rankings

1 Florida State 125 2 Virginia Tech 98.5 3 Virginia 94 4 North Carolina 61.5 5 Clemson 57 6 NC State 49 7 Wake Forest 46 8 Georgia Tech 43 9 Miami 31 10 Duke 28 11 Maryland 23 12 Boston College 3

Women's Final Rankings

1 Florida State 123 2 North Carolina 104 3 Clemson 85 4 Virginia Tech 83.33 5 Miami 61 6 NC State 47 7 Georgia Tech 37.33 8 Virginia 29 9 Duke 26.33 10 Wake Forest 24 11 Boston College 23 12 Maryland 10

 

Top Three Finishers Per Event on Saturday (All-ACC Performers)

Men’s High Jump

1. Dwight Barbiasz, Maryland 7-02.25 (*)
2. Tim Reen, Florida State 7-00.25 (*)
3. Greg Nelson, Virginia 6-10.25

 

Men’s Shot Put

1. Steve Marcelle, Georgia Tech 63-05.00 (!)
2. Yemi Ayeni, Virginia 61-04.25 (!)
3. Andrew Powlen, Georgia Tech 58-09.25 (*)

 

Men’s Triple Jump

       1. Austin Davis, North Carolina 53-05.75 (!)

       2. Mikese Morse, Miami 50-04.50

       3. Hasheem Halim, Virginia Tech 44-11.75

 

Men’s Mile Run

1. Billy Berlin, Virginia Tech 4:03.69 (*)
2. Dan Roberts, Florida State 4:03.70 (*)
3. Sintayehu Taye, Virginia 4:04.04

 

Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles

1. Cory Nelms, Miami 7.95
2. Brent LaRue, Wake Forest 7.98
3. Adams Abdulrazaaq, Virginia 7.99

 

Men’s 60 Meters

1. Jacoby Ford, Clemson 6.51 (!, m, s)
2. Michael Ray Garvin, Florida State (!)
3. Maurice Mitchell, Florida State (*)

 

Men’s 200 Meters

1. Charles Clark, Florida State 21.29
2. Maurice Mitchell, Florida State 21.39
3. Travis Swaggard, Clemsn 21.48  

Men’s 400 Meters

1. Michael Bingham, Wake Forest 46.23 (*)
2. Jonathan Reid, Wake Forest 46.83 (*)
3. Travis Swaggard, Clemson 47.76

 

Men’s 800 Meters

1. Ryan Witt, Virginia Tech 1:50.74
2. Adam Smith, North Carolina 1:52.33
3. Andrew Lobb, Virginia 1:52.69  

Men’s 3,000 Meters

1. Robert Moldovan, NC State 8:11.89
2. John Martinez, NC State 8:12.31
3. Ryan Collins, Virginia 8:13.00

Men’s 4x400 Relay

1. Wake Forest (Lunkenheimer, Reid, Dodds, Bingham) 3:12.01
2. Florida Stat (Williams, Byram, O’Connor, Tunon) 3:12.12
3. Virginia (Anding, Roller, Lee, Paschal) 3:13.12

 

Women’s Shot Put

1. Kamorean Hayes, Florida State 52-02.00 (*)
2. Bailey Wagner, Georgia Tech 49-10.00
3. Rebecca O’Brien, North Carolina 49-05.75

 

Women’s Triple Jump

1. Kimberly Williams, Florida State 45-03.00 (!, m)
2. Tiara Swanagan, Florida State 43.04.25
3. Patricia Mamona, Clemson 43-03.00

 

Women’s Pole Vault

1. Abigail Schaffer, Virginia Tech 4.10 (*)

T2  Amy Fryt, Duke 4.00 (*)

T2Joanna Wright, Georgia Tech 4.00 (*)

T2Kelly Phillips, Virginia Tech 4.00 (*)

 

Women’s Mile Run

1. Susan Kuijken, Florida State 4.34.11 (!, m, s)
2. Pilar McShine, Florida State 4:43.06 (*)
3. Molly Lehman, Duke 4:43.35 (*)

 

Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles

1. Kristi Castln, Virginia Tech 8.03 (!, m)
2. Teonna Rogers, Florida State 8.07 (!)
3. Vanneisha Ivy, North Carolina 8.24 (*)

 

Women’s 60 Meters

1. Murielle Ahoure, Miami 7.22 (!)
2. Danielle Jeffery, Florida State 7.38 (*)
3. Ogechi Nwaneri, Virginia Tech 7.43 (*)

 

Women’s 200 Meters

1. Murielle Ahoure, Miami 23.16 (!, m)
2. Teone Rogers, Florida State  23.42 (*)
3. Brittany St. Louis, Florida State 23.69 (*)

Women’s 400 Meters

1. Asia Washington, Virginia Tech 54.18 (*)
2. Elizabeth Mott, North Carolina 54.62
3. Christine Johnson, North Carolina 55.02

 

Women’s 800 Meters

1. Caitlin Bailey, Boston College 2:08.00 (*)
2. Callie Pottinger, North Carolina 2:08.13 (*)
3. Dominique Jackson, Virginia 2:09.58

 

Women’s 3,000 Meters

1. Brie Felnagle, North Carolina 9:25.97
2. Natalie Sherbak, Virginia Tech 9:29.61
3. Lydia Willemse, Florida State 9:32.24

 

Women’s 4x400 Relay

1. North Carolina (Johnson, Mott, Pottinger, Stanley) 3:38.21 (*, m)
2. Miami (Kamate, Jameson, Brown, Leufroy) 3:39.54 (*)
3. Virginia Tech (Washington, Castln, Pinnock, Boone)

! - NCAA  Automatic
* - NCAA Provisional
m – Meet Record
s – Site Record