Northridge Advances a School-Record Seven to NCAA Outdoor Championships
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Northridge Advances a School-Record Seven to NCAA Outdoor Championships
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - The Cal State Northridge track & field teams advanced a school- record total of seven student-athletes who will compete at the NCAA Div. I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Sacramento State, June 6-9.
Junior DaShalle Andrews will be making his third trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships as he qualifies in both the long jump and triple jump. Andrews is ranked 14th in the long jump with a lifetime-best mark of 25-4.75 (7.74) set when he claimed the 2007 Big West Championship in that event. He also qualified for the triple jump where he is ranked 22nd with a career-best distance of 51-7.25 (15.73), which also earned him a conference championship. Andrews also represented Northridge in the long jump in 2004 where he jumped 22-8 (6.91) and did not reach the event final. In 2005, he jumped 23-4.50 (7.12) in long jump qualifying but did not make the final.
Senior Shauna Hackett, who qualifies as part of the Matadors' 4x100 relay team, is the only other Northridge athlete with NCAA Championship experience. Hackett ran 11.67 in the 100 meters at the 2004 Big West Championships to claim the 28th and final at-large entry into the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas. She went on to run 11.69 in the 100 meter trials and did not reach the final.
Senior Deanna Goodwin will run in two events at the NCAA Championships after qualifying in the 400 meters and the 4x100 relay. Goodwin became the first Northridge athlete to win an NCAA Regional event when she ran 53.56 to defeat the field in the 400 meters last weekend at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. Goodwin's time in Oregon was off her season-best time of 52.92 which broke the Cal State Northridge record on Apr. 13 at UCLA. She is ranked 20th among 29 (400 meter) sprinters heading to Sacramento.
The Matador men will also be represented by juniors Rolando Felizola and Terry Ross at the NCAA Championships. Felizola, the Big West runner-up to Andrews in both the long jump and triple jump, qualifies 12th in the triple jump with a career-best mark of 52-2.75 (15.92) set on Apr. 28 at the Steve Scott Invitational in Irvine. Felizola is the 22nd-ranked long jumper with a career-best mark of 24-10 (7.57) which was third at the NCAA West Regional last weekend. Ross, the 2007 Big West 110 hurdles champion, is ranked 15th in the 110 meter hurdles after running 13.78 to place second at the NCAA West Regional in Oregon last weekend. Ross' time is a Northridge record eclipsing teammate Anthony Brown's time of 13.81 set in 2006.
Junior Julie Eze and sophomore Dominique Calvin, along with Goodwin and Hackett, will make up the Northridge 4x100 relay team that qualified 19th in a time of 44.96. The team ran 44.96 to win the 2007 Big West crown and then ran 45.12 at the NCAA West Regional to take third place.
Carol Stevenson was the last Northridge student-athlete on either the men's or women's side to finish in the top eight at the NCAA Championships. Stevenson earned All-America honors in the discus in 2004 after throwing a career-best 178-11 (54.54) in the championships held at the University of Texas.
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