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April 12, 2004
Track and Field Reaches More Qualifying Times
SIU Edwardsville’s track and field squads continue to qualify individuals for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. This time, a few athletes did so at the Cougar Classic.
On the women’s side, Christen Carducci (Powell, Ohio) ran the 3,000-meter run in a school record time of 10 minutes, 4.46 seconds and put her name on the provisional qualifying list.
She joins her sister, Carrie Carducci (Powell, Ohio), on the qualifying list after Carrie Carducci lowered her time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase to 11:21.75.
Jamie Thomas (Blue Island) lowered her school-record time in the 100-meter hurdles to 14.51 seconds.
Tairisha Sawyer (Chicago), Breanne Steffens (Moline) and Callie Glover (Bartlett) are also provisionally qualified for the national meet, which takes place May 27-29 in Pomona, Calif.
On the men’s side, NCAA Indoor All-American Richard Skirball (Granite City) provisionally qualified in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:52.94.
The Cougars will look to have more qualifiers this weekend when it travels to Illinois State for the Redbird Classic.
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