Shareese Woods stared strong in hers and the Niners' season-opening track and field debut this weekend. |
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Niners Open Indoor Track Season at Two Meets
Dec. 3, 2006
Clemson, S.C. and Boone, N.C. - The Charlotte 49ers opened their 2006 Indoor Track season at two concurrent meets, the Clemson Opener in South Carolina and the Appalachian State Invitational over the weekend. Several Charlotte top performers stared where they left off last season.
At Clemson, 2006 All-American Shareese Woods won the women's 400 meter dash, at a time just nine hundredths of a second from an NCAA provisional qualifying time, nearly two full seconds faster than the rest of the field with a 54.79 time.
The defending A-10 champion women's 4x400 meter relay team also started strong, winning the meet with a mark of 3:47.60. The team of Portia Baker, Angel Moore, Tina Horne and Woods was nearly a second better than second-place Alabama-Birmingham.
Jelaine Sellers took the women's high jump event, with a jump of 1.7 meters, less than a tenth of a meter from a NCAA provisional height mark. Sharonda Johnson finished second in the women's triple jump, with a 12.59 meter mark.
Jason Moore was stout on the men's side, finishing third in the 200 meter dash, with a 22.19 time. He also placed seventh in the finals of the 60 meter dash. His fast time of 6.80 in the preliminary race was his low time of the weekend.
Jarryd Novotni was fourth in the men's shot put, with a long throw of 14.81 meters.
In the mountains of North Carolina, Charlotte saw good performances by Toree Roseboro and Sam Hodapp.
Roseboro finished fourth in the 55 meter dash and the 200 meter dash in Boone, N.C.
Hodapp finished in a tie for third with a pole vault height of 4.71 meters.
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Charlotte Track and Field head coach Bob Olesen was pleased with the early results.
"We had a great first weekend to kick off the 06-07 indoor season," said Olesen.
"There were a number of personal best performances and top placing finishes at both meets which is exciting to have at the first meet of the year at a time when we are in a heavy phase of training. A few of our top performers from 05-06 rested the weekend and will begin their seasons after the winter break joining teammates at Virginia Tech and UNC Chapel Hill."
Charlotte will run again after the calendar page turns on the weekend of January 12-13 at concurrent meets, the UNC Opener in Chapel Hill, N.C. and the Virginia Tech Invitational at Blacksburg, Va.
(full results will be posted on Monday)
