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March 1, 2004

Track Waits for NCAA Nods
         After celebrating a first-ever Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships win for indoor track on both the men’s and women’s side, Coach Darryl Frerker now has an extra bonus. Several Cougars have made the provisional qualifying list for the NCAA Championships in Boston on March 12-13.
         Frerker, named the GLVC’s Coach of the Year for men’s indoor track and women’s indoor track, said he expects Richard Skirball (Granite City), Jamie Thomas (Blue Island) and Callie Glover (Bartlett) to be on the entry list when it is announced later this week.
         The top 12 performances in each event are invited to the national meet. Frerker said Tairisha Sawyer (Chicago) also could make the trip with a little luck. Sawyer is 15th in the 60-meter dash, but with scratches to the meet and student-athletes who compete in multiple events, the possibility exists.
         Skirball holds the 11th fastest time in the country at 800 meters.
         Thomas, the women’s Freshman of the Year, is seventh in the 60-meter hurdles and 13th in the triple jump. Because she’ll already be in attendance for the hurdles event, Frerker said, the meet committee will likely let her compete in the triple jump as well.
         Glover is tied for 11th in the shot put.
         “This is the most people we have had on the provisional list by a long shot,” said Frerker.
         That list also includes Brittany Reeves (Hanover Park), Breanne Steffens (Moline), and the women’s 4 x 400-meter relay team. On the men’s side, provisional qualifying marks also were made by Lee Weeden (Ferguson, Mo.), Cody Ellermeyer (DuQuoin) and Marvell Seals (Florissant, Mo.).
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