St. Aug's Pierre Sets Unofficial National Record In 60 Dash At Tar Heel Invitational
January 9, 2010
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Barbara Pierre (Sr./Winter Haven, Fla.)
set an unofficial national record in the women’s 60-meter
dash Friday (Jan. 8) at the Eddie & Jo Smith Jr. Tar Heel
Invitational indoor track and field meet on the University of North
Carolina campus.
Pierre outraced her competitors Friday at the Eddie Smith
Fieldhouse in a time of 7.25
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seconds, bettering her Division II national record of 7.27
seconds which Pierre set March 2009 at the NCAA Division II Indoor
Championships. Friday’s mark is not considered a Division II
national record, however. According to the NCAA rules, the NCAA
regionals and championships records are the only records maintained
by the NCAA. Though Friday’s time does not count as a
national record, Pierre did run a personal best and won the race in
an NCAA automatic qualifying time, which was faster than the time
of 7.53 posted by second-place finisher Tyler Ford of the
University of North Carolina.
In the men’s 60-meter dash, Ramon Gittens (Jr./St. Thomas,
Barbados) of the Falcons outran the field in 6.77 seconds to gain
the victory. His closest challenger finished in 6.80 seconds. Other
winners for the Falcons were Chayce Smith (Jr./Devonshire, Bermuda)
in the men’s one-mile run (4:23.07), and the men’s
4x400 relay team (3:18.31) consisting of Josh Scott (Jr./Winter
Haven, Fla.), Richard Boone (Sr./Petersburg, Va.), Jason Boyd
(Soph./Waycross, Ga.), and Antonio Abney (Jr./Palmyra, N.J.).
Abney also finished third in the men’s 400 dash (50.26); and
Boyd was third in the men’s 60 hurdles (8.20). Kyra Mobley
(Sr./Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) placed third in the women’s 800
run (2:25.72), and the women’s 4x400 relay team of Sheena
Johns (Jr./Dover, Del.), Jasmin Peterson-Hassan (Fr./Landover
Hills, Md.), Mobley and Pierre placed third (3:55.29). In field
events, Christopher Copeland (Soph./Suffolk, Va.) was second (2.04
meters) and Orolando Duffus (Jr./St. Catherine, Jamaica) was third
(2.04 meters) in the men’s high jump.
