Langat, Cooper Sweep C-USA Track Honors
2/10/2004 12:00:00 AM
Feb. 10, 2004
TCU track & field athletes swept the Conference USA weekly awards for their performances on February 7 at Houston. Jackson Langat was honored as the male indoor track & field athlete of the week, while MaKeatha Cooper took home the women's honors.
Langat, a three-time All-American from Nairobi, Kenya, posted his best time of the season in winning the 800-meter dash in an NCAA provisional time of 1:48.93, just three one-hundredths of a second off an automatic NCAA qualifying mark. It was the second fastest 800 turned in this year in Division I track. The junior's previous best time this season was 1:50.11. When converting his 800-meter time of 1:48.93, which occurred on a flat 200-meter track at Houston to a banked track, it equals a mark of 1:48.33, which is .03 better than his school record mark of 1:48.36, set on the banked track in Fayetteville, Arkansas last March. It was the second time Langat has been honored by the conference this year.
Freshman MaKeatha Cooper earned C-USA Athlete of the Week for her efforts in the 60-meter hurdles at the Houston Indoor Classic on Saturday. Cooper, who prepped at Grandview (Mo.) High, a suburb of Kansas City, provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships with a season-best time of 8.38 seconds. The provisional standard is 8.43. Cooper's previous best time this season was 8.48.
Langat, Cooper and the rest of the Flyin' Frogs will be in action again on Friday and Saturday, February 13 and 14, when they travel to Fayetteville for the Razorback Invitational.
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