| Senior and All-American Jennifer Leatherman (Yellville, Ark.) ended her collegiate career with a fifth place finish in the hammer finals Saturday afternoon with a mark of 210??00?? (64.01 meters), scoring four points. |
SACRAMENTO, Calif.; June 10, 2006 ?C The final day of the 2006 NCAA Division I Women??s Outdoor Track and Field Championships displayed redshirt-junior sprinter and All-American Shana Cox (Westbury, N.Y.) to the nation. CBS aired live coverage of the 400-meter finals Saturday afternoon.
The Penn State women??s outdoor track and field team finished 25th overall at the 25th annual NCAA Division I Women??s Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The Lion women tied with Arkansas, Colorado, Duke, Providence and Washington State for 25th place. This is the team??s seventh Top 25 finish since 1981. Auburn finished first with 57 points. Southern California edged South Carolina by half a point, finishing second with 38.5 points, followed by South Carolina with 38.
Ranked No. 1 in the nation, Cox sprinted to a third place finish in the 400-meter finals in a time of 51.39, scoring six points. Cox beat her 2005 NCAA finish in the 400-meter dash. Last year??s ninth place finish is very different from her third place finish at this year??s NCAA Championships.
Senior and All-American Jennifer Leatherman (Yellville, Ark.) ended her collegiate career with a fifth place finish in the hammer finals Saturday afternoon with a mark of 210??00?? (64.01 meters), scoring four points. She finished seventh in the hammer at the 2005 NCAA Championships. Heading into the 2006 NCAA Championships, Leatherman was ranked fifth nationally in the hammer.
The 2006 NCAA Division I Men??s and Women??s Outdoor Track and Field Championships featured 4 1/2 hours of live television coverage this weekend. This is the first time since 1982 that the NCAA Track and Field Championships have been televised live on network television.
CBS aired 2 1/2 hours of live coverage (3:30 to 6 p.m. EST) on Saturday, June 10, the final day of the four-day collegiate championships. The 4 1/2 hours of live coverage throughout the competition marks the most live coverage in the history of NCAA Division I Track and Field. This marks the second time that the women??s portion of the meet will be televised.
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