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tony
04-28-2012, 06:16 PM
Good to have another track fan on the board!

Anyway, some nice results. The women broke a record that I thought might stand for decades.

Melissa Kitching, Paige Stratioti, Ashlynn Simon, Antoinette Goodman: 3:38.09 (average split: 54.52)

The old record of 3:38.54 was held by a team consisting of
-Kinsey Coles: Olympic trials qualifier in the 800
-Jill Theeler: #3 all time in the 400 for NDSU
-Rachel Kraft: who at one time, before NDSU's 800m explosion, had the #3 all-time best in 800
-Tamara Brudy: #1 all-time for NDSU in the 400

It gets better:

1. NDSU's current team is all freshmen or sophomores
2. They set the record in one of the first meets of the season. The previous top times were set in the NCAA championships at the end of the season.
3. Prior to this meet, the best 400 time I could find was 56 second by Brittany Schanandore.
4. Also, not on the relay team was Ashley Tingelstad who has the best 400 time currently on the Bison (in 2010 though.)

Adds up to a very impressive and surprising performances by the Bison women.

IzzyFlexion
04-28-2012, 06:42 PM
The Bison Women set a school record in 4 X 400 meter relay advancing to this afternoon's (Saturday) final at 5:47 Central Time.
Melissa Kiching, Paige Stratioti, Ashlynn Simon, and Antoinette Goodman clocked in at 3:38.09 in the prelims. The new record is nearly 1/2 off of the old record set in 2002 (3:38.54)

These 4 ladies enter today's final with the 3rd fastest time in the prelims.

Ole Miss qualified with the top time of 3:37.62
The 2nd fastest quailier was Florida a 3:37.7
Then it's the Herd at 3:38.09.

The meet is streaming live on Drake's athletics' website at:

http://www.godrakebulldogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15700&ATCLID=859720

A one day pass is $9.95.

IzzyFlexion
04-28-2012, 06:45 PM
Sorry for the duplication, Tony. You must have put your "Drake Relays" thread up right when I started mine.
I took me awhile to complete my initial post flipping between three sites to make sure that I had all of right info.

IzzyFlexion
04-28-2012, 06:49 PM
The 4 X 800 meter team finished 2nd just 4 tenths of a second behind Notre Dame.
Their time was also the 2nd fastest in NDSU history at 8:36.61.

sambini
05-01-2012, 08:49 AM
Witnessed i all at Drake and was very proud of the BISON Track teams. They just got after it...