Montray Gilchrist is one of several Niners looking to make their final regional qualifying mark at Georgia Tech Saturday. |
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Charlotte Track Athletes Make Final Qualifying Attempts at Georgia Tech
May 11, 2007
Charlotte, N.C. - The Charlotte 49ers track and field teams head to Georgia Tech this weekend for a last chance qualifier for the NCAA Regionals, which will run in Gainesville, Fla. in two weeks.
A few 49ers came very close to putting up qualifying marks last weekend at the Atlantic 10 Championships and the coaching staff hopes they might get achieve the appearance in Florida.
Adu Dentamo has posted very close times in the 800m and 1,500m runs this season and looks to make his first outdoor regional. Teammate Chase Eckard has already qualified in these two events and with Aja Jackson in for those events as well, Charlotte looks to add a third to the mix in Gainesville.
Montray Gilchrist has been peaking in the latter part of the season and will make one more attempt to peak past the regional qualifying mark in the hurdles sprint and the long jump this weekend in Atlanta. He posted a 7.00m leap in the long jump in the conference meet, and looks to add the 0.34m to get to the qualifying standard. Teammate LaMarcus Outing is already in the regionals in the long jump and the coaching staff would like to have two entries in that event.
Jason Moore on the men's side has qualified in the 100m and 200m dashes for regionals this season.
On the women's side, freshman Danielle Brown has put up some impressive triple jumps in the late stages of this season and was very close (0.25m short of the 12.32m mark) at the A-10 meet in Charlotte last week. According to the coaching staff, Brown is "peaking at the right time" and deserves this chance to try again for the 12.32m result this weekend at Georgia Tech. Sharonda Johnson has qualified for regionals in the triple jump again this season.
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Shareese Woods, Courtney Patterson, Lajarsha Moses and Lamarra Currie have all qualified in the 4x100m relay event and the 100m individual dash. Woods is in for the 200m and 400m dashes as well. Sophomore Pat Springs has qualified in the long jump and 100m hurdles. Senior Jane Daniels has posted qualifying times in the 5000m run and the steeplechase.
Charlotte had a record 14 student-athletes make the All-Region team last season in Greensboro.
