Lady Tigers to Compete at Aggie Last Chance Meet

May 11, 2006

The Clemson women’s track & field team will travel to Greensboro, NC to take part in the Aggie Last Chance Meet on the North Carolina A&T campus. The event will be held Friday and Saturday, May 12-13, on Irwin Belk Track at Aggie Stadium. That venue will also serve as the host site of the NCAA East Region Championships on May 26-27. So far this season, eight Lady Tigers have qualified for regionals.

The Lady Tigers get underway Friday at 4:00 PM with senior Krystal Woods competing in the javelin throw. At 6:00, Beth Jordan will compete in the pole vault and Renata Miyamoto will run the 100m hurdle preliminaries. At 7:35, Ope Sobanjo will run the 100m dash prelims in hopes to make it to Saturday’s final.

On Saturday, Della Clark and Michelle Rogers will compete in the triple jump in hopes to improve on their respective regional marks. Woods will compete in the discus throw at 4:00 to finalize Clemson’s field event action for the weekend.

Randi Hinton will compete in both the 200m and 400m on Saturday afternoon. The 400m will be approximately at 4:00 and the 200m has been scheduled for 6:00. Patrice McMillan, Thea Dix, and Tia Perry will compete in the 400m intermediate hurdles at 5:30. The team of Hinton, Hill, Sobanjo, and Perry will run in the 4x400m relay at 7:20 in hopes to qualify for the regional meet in that event.