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Friday, March 28, 2025

NCAA Cham­pi­onships

Alexander goes for second NCAA medal

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20110610

An­nie Alexan­der will be go­ing for her sec­ond medal when she takes to the field in the women's shot put on the fi­nal day of ac­tion at the NCAA Di­vi­sion 1 Out­door Cham­pi­onships at Drake Sta­di­um, Des Moines, Iowa, USA lat­er to­day. Alexande (Ten­nessee) is list­ed in the sec­ond group in the qual­i­fy­ing round and will have to fin­ish in the top nine to ad­vance to the fi­nals set for the same day.

On Wednes­day, Alexan­der be­came the first T&T and Caribbean com­peti­tor to medal at this year's meet when she copped bronze in the women's dis­cus with 57.55 me­tres. Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty Se­moy Hack­ett and Ky­ron Blaise will al­so seek medals in in­di­vid­ual events. Hack­ett is al­so in the fi­nals of the women's 200m af­ter she was sev­enth quick­est in the semis (23.02) on Thurs­day. She would want to re­deem her­self af­ter the dis­ap­point­ment of not mak­ing the fi­nals of the women's 100m. Hack­ett will al­so con­test the women's 4x100m fi­nals. Blaise is in the field in the men's triple jump and will com­pete in the sec­ond group and will be aim­ing to fin­ish in the top nine to ad­vance to the fi­nal round.

In re­lay ac­tion, Hack­ett will be joined by Brit­ney St Louis in the women's 4x100m fi­nals. St Louis and her Flori­da State Uni­ver­si­ty will line up in lane two with Hack­ett's LSU in lane sixth. In the men's 4x100m fi­nals Zwede He­witt's Bay­lor will start in lane two. He­witt will be back in ac­tion in the men's 4x400m fi­nals as Bay­lor ad­vanced clock­ing 3:03:69 sec­onds to fin­ish third in yes­ter­day's semi­fi­nals.


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