Track: Six Sooners at NCAAs
The Oklahoma indoor track team returns to Fayetteville, Ark., for the 2008 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. The event, hosted by the University of Arkansas, will consist of two days of competition on today and Saturday.
Six Sooners, four men and two women, will compete in five different events in hopes of becoming Oklahoma’s latest national champion.
Shardae Boutte (triple jump) is Oklahoma’s only automatic qualifier with the nation’s top mark of the season of 54 feet and one inch (16.48 meters), an OU program record.
Boutte will be joined by five provisional qualifiers including teammate Tydree Lewis in the triple jump.
Marcus Pugh (60-meter dash) and Sheldon Leith (60-meter hurdles) round out the Oklahoma men’s contingent.
The Sooner women are represented by Latoya Greaves in the 60-meter hurdles and Leslie Cole in the 400-meter dash.
Action begins Friday at 9:45 a.m. with the 60-meter dash portion of the men’s heptathlon. Leith will be Oklahoma’s first competitor in the men’s 60-meter hurdles at 5:05 p.m. on Friday. Saturday’s action begins at 11 a.m. with the men’s heptathlon 60-meter hurdles.
Results
Live results for the 2008 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships will be available at Hogwired.com and LadyBacks.com. A complete recap of Oklahoma action will be posted on SoonerSports.com shortly after the conclusion of action each day.
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