HENDERSON NAMED TO ALL-AMERICAN HONORS AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Her throw in the event was about four feet (or 2 meters) short of the personal best she tossed to win the ACC Championships. That 17.09m (56-1) effort would have got her seventh place yesterday...the top toss was 18.35m (60-2) by freshman Raven Saunders from Southern Illinois. ACC competitor Sarah Howard (UNC) finished 14th. with a 16.20m (53-1) throw. Henderson defeated Howard in the ACC Championships earlier this year.
20.59 is the best recorded toss on record...achieved by Nadzeya Ostapchuk in 2011.
Henderson will take to the track again Saturday to compete in the finals of the discus toss. She's ranked 24th. of the 24 competitors...so winning this would truly be remarkable.
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Our neighbors to the east (UK) had several runners qualify out of their heats to make the finals. UK had made significant strides in track and field. One has to hope the Cards can catch up here in the future. The dominance of LSU, Texas A&M, Clemson and Oregon over the years can be equated and compared to the upper echelon of UConn, Notre Dame, Stanford, Louisville and Maryland in women's college basketball.
It's a nice achievement two have two Cardinal athletes qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships...but one would hope that Dale Cowper, Louisville track and field head coach, can recruit a few "Shoni's, Asia's and Angel's" for the 'run, jump and throw' Cards in the future. The women's program has had decent throwers over the years. It's time to catch up in the sprints, hurdles and relay events.
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Congrats to E. I'm sure she'd have liked to do better but just making the nationals as a soph is pretty impressive.
ReplyDeleteI don't get how they give All American status in Track and Field any better than I get Lacrosse. It seems like everyone that makes nationals pretty much is designated an All American. It's great and all for E it just doesn't make much sense to me.
I think the 20.59 by Ostapchuk is a Hayward Field record and was not NCAA. But I couldn't confirm that since they make it very difficult to find any information.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. Here are the top ten of all time:
DeleteRank Mark Athlete Nationality Location Date
1 22.63 m (74 ft 23⁄4 in) Natalya Lisovskaya Soviet Union Moscow June 7, 1987
2 22.50 m (73 ft 93⁄4 in)i Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia Jablonec nad Nisou February 19, 1977
3 22.45 m (73 ft 73⁄4 in) Ilona Briesenick East Germany Potsdam May 11, 1980
4 22.19 m (72 ft 91⁄2 in) Claudia Losch West Germany Hainfeld August 23, 1987
5 21.89 m (71 ft 93⁄4 in) Ivanka Khristova Bulgaria Belmeken July 4, 1976
6 21.86 m (71 ft 81⁄2 in) Marianne Adam East Germany Leipzig June 23, 1979
7 21.76 m (71 ft 41⁄2 in) Li Meisu China Shijiazhuang April 23, 1988
8 21.73 m (71 ft 31⁄2 in) Natalya Akhrimenko Soviet Union Leselidze May 21, 1988
9 21.70 m (71 ft 21⁄4 in)i Nadzeya Ostapchuk Belarus Mogilev February 12, 2010
10 21.69 m (71 ft 13⁄4 in) Vita Pavlysh Ukraine Budapest August 15, 1998