TCU
Penn Relays
4x400 Makes History at Penn Relays
4/25/2009 12:00:00 AM
April 25, 2009
PHILADELPHIA - The women's 4x400 earned runner-up honors in the Championship of America final to lead TCU in front of 47,904 spectators on the final day of competition at the 115th running of the Penn Relays.The unit, which consisted of Kishelle Paul, Jessica Clarke, Hayley Shade and Jessica Young collected second-place honors with a NCAA regional qualifying time of 3:33.63 seconds at Franklin Field. The second-place finish was the highest finish ever posted in the Women's Championship of America final in program history.
"It was a long weekend in which we made a lot of finals," said head coach Darryl Anderson. "We ran a bunch of relays, so we got a lot of good work in. I thought we ended the meet on a good note with both 4x400 relays doing well. This is a good place for us to be right now because we are getting better with both of our relays. We just need to go back now and start preparing for the Mountain West Conference Championships here in a few weeks."
On the men's side, the quartet of Clemore Henry, Dell Guy, Jordan Pitts and Matthew Love crossed the finish line with a seasonal-best time of 3:04.87 to earn fifth-place honors in the championship finals. The unit's regional qualifying time is currently ranked No. 7 in the NCAA and No. 15 in the world standings.
In a field that featured six of the nation's top-20 sprinters, Young clocked an NCAA regional qualifying time of 11.46 seconds to cross the finish line in fifth-place in the finals of the 100 meters at Franklin Field.
In the college finals of the men's 4x100, Andon Mitchell, Otis McDaniel, Mychal Dungey and Justyn Warner opened the day, finishing fifth overall with an NCAA regional qualifying time of 40.22 seconds.
Many former Flyin' Frog greats were also in competition on Saturday in the USA vs. the World competition. Khadevis Robinson, a 1998 National Champion for TCU, helped USA Blue record a fourth-place finish in the distance medley.
Later in the day, six-time All-American Virgil Hodge anchored St. Kitts and Nevis' 4x100 to a sixth-place finish in the USA vs. the World final with a time of 44.52 seconds. On the men's side, Michael Frater, who won a gold medal this past summer in Beijing, ran a leg on Jamaica's 4x100, which finished in ninth-place in Philadelphia.
TCU will next be in action next Saturday at the Texas Invite in Austin
