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Tulane Sends Seven to NCAA Regional Championships
May 25, 2005 | Track & Field
May 25, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, La. - The Tulane University women's track and field team will send seven student-athletes to this weekends NCAA Mideast Regional Championships at the Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex on the campus of Indiana University.
Sophomore Gloria Asumnu will lead the Green Wave by competing in four events. The Tulane record-holder in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes, Asumnu will see her first action in the 4x100 relay on Friday at 4 p.m. Joining her on the Wave relay team are seniors Angel Dooley and Lissie Mo and junior Marilyn Sauls.
At 6 p.m. on Friday, Asumnu will compete in the 100-meter dash preliminary heats, while shortly after, Mo will be in action in the long jump. Asumnu and Dooley close out Friday's events for Tulane by running in the 200-meter dash prelims at 7:30 p.m.
On Saturday, junior Helmi Leppanen will compete in a pair of events. She throws in the javelin at 3:10 p.m. and then the shot put at 6 p.m. Asumnu, Dooley, senior Tahira Wiggins and freshman Shanon Beelendorf will close the Regional at 8 p.m., competing in the 4x400 Relay.
There are four Regional Championships throughout the country - in addition to the Mideast Regional, there is an East Regional (Manhattan, N.Y.), a Midwest Regional (Norman, Okla.) and a West Regional (Eugene, Ore.). Student-athletes qualified for the regional championships by reaching the standards established for each event or by earning automatic access as a conference event champion.
The top five finishers in each individual event and the top three teams in each relay event from each of the four regions will advance to the nationals. The fields, expected to be about 26 for each individual event and 17 teams in each relay, will then be completed by selecting at-large entrants. The Division I subcommittee will base its selections on the descending-order lists from all regular-season competition and the four regional meets. However, an athlete must compete in all events at a regional meet in which he or she wishes to remain eligible for an at-large spot to the national championships.
Asumnu enters the regional as the top-rated Green Wave athlete as she is ninth in the 200 and 11th in the 100. Leppanen is ranked No. 10 in the region in the shot put and No. 21 in the javelin, while Dooley is 11th in the 200 and Mo is 19th in the long jump. The 4x400 relay team is ranked No. 15 and the 4x100 team is No. 20.
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