Feb. 1, 2003
Complete Results
FAIRFAX, VA ... George Mason freshman Alyce Williams (Palm Coast, FL/Flagler Palm Coast) won the women's triple jump with a personal-best 43-foot, ?-inch performance to set a new indoor school record and provisionally qualify for the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Patriots Games at the George Mason Fieldhouse on Saturday afternoon.
Just 1? inches off the automatically qualifying NCAA mark, Williams is the first Patriot to post an NCAA-qualifying performance this indoor season.
Other competitors to record NCAA provisionally qualifying marks were NC State's Kelly Smoke winning the women's weight throw with a 61-foot, 5?-inch performance and William & Mary's Ali Henderson winning the women's 3000 meters in 9:30.46. St. Augustine's had NCAA Division II automatic qualifiers in two events - Anwar Moore winning the men's 60-meter hurdles in 7.90 seconds and their men's "A" team in the 4x400-meter relay, winning in 3:12.69.
Sophomore transfer Richard Phillips (St. Catherine, Jamaica/Ardenne/Abilene Christian) led George Mason's men's team, placing second in the 60-meter hurdles in a season-best 7.99 seconds, just .04 seconds off the NCAA provisionally qualifying time. Junior Wayne Wright (Roanoke, VA/Cave Spring) was runner-up in the high jump with a leap of 6 feet, 8 inches.
Other Patriots to post winning performances included sophomore Tysha Colon (Washington, DC/HD Woodson) recording a season-best time of 24.60 seconds to win the 200 meters, freshman Alycia Williams (Palm Coast, FL/Flagler Palm Coast) with a season-best 55.13-second performance to win the 400 meters and the women's distance medley relay of junior Dana Early (Milmont Park, PA/Ridley), sophomore Kathy Williams (Lanham, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt), sophomore Sheena Davidson (Rochester, NY/Edison Tech) and senior Michelle DiPenti (Warren, PA/Warren Area) in 12:28.34.
George Mason's 4x400-meter relays were also successful, with the women's "A" team of Alyce Williams, Alycia Williams, junior Sheena Goss (Elk Grove, CA/Laguna Creek) and sophomore Sheena Davidson (Rochester, NY/Edison Tech) finishing second in a season-best 3:46.27. The women's "B" team of Kathy Williams, sophomore Paula Bailey (Winston Salem, NC/West Forsyth), Colon and senior NamTasha Joyner (Richmond, VA/John F. Kennedy) followed in third place in 3:59.95. The men's 4x4 of Phillips, sophomore Dominique Brown (Somerville, NJ/Somerville), junior Ricardo Cunningham (Clarendon, Jamaica/SW Christian CC) and senior Kevin Nishiyama (Warrington, PA/Central Bucks East) placed third in 3:18.16.
George Mason's men's and women's track & field teams are off next weekend, but resume competition hosting the GMU Collegiate Open on Saturday, February 15.
