Post by elonfirefighter on Apr 23, 2007 11:28:27 GMT -5
Clendenning Repeats as SoCon Pole Vault Champion
4/23/2007
BOONE, N.C. – Elon senior Jessica Clendenning (Chesapeake, Va./Hickory) jumped 3.80 meters (12-05.50), springing to her third consecutive SoCon pole vault title Sunday at the 2007 Southern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Kidd Brewer Stadium on the Appalachian State campus.
Clendenning competed in all eight Southern Conference championships – four indoors and four outdoors – during her career at Elon, earning a top-three finish for all-conference accolades in the pole vault seven times. She won the event outdoors last spring and indoors this past winter.
Thanks to a 3.90-meter leap earlier this season, Clendenning is currently tied for 27th in the country among NCAA Division I women’s pole vaulters and has ranked as high as 19th this season. She is currently tied for fifth among East Region athletes in her event. Clendenning will make her second consecutive East Regional appearance next month.
Georgia Southern (223.50 points) claimed the team title, followed by Appalachian State (173.50), Western Carolina (160), Chattanooga (69), The Citadel (56), Elon (50), Davidson (36), Furman (28), College of Charleston (19), Wofford (4) and UNC Greensboro (0).
Junior Dominique Price (Burlington, N.C./Cummings) scurried to third place in the finals of the 100-meter hurdles, turning in a time of 14.38 seconds. She was timed at 14.44 seconds during the preliminaries, good for second place in her heat.
Senior Alice Turner (Durham, N.C./Hillside) sprinted to sixth place in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles, crossing the finish line in 1:05.10 after scampering to a time of 1:03.90 to place second in her heat during the preliminaries.
Sophomore Kimberly Abel (Marlton, N.J./Haddonfield Memorial), freshman Caitlin Beeler (Cary, N.C./Cardinal Gibbons), sophomore Anna Mae Flynn (Banner Elk, N.C./Watauga), freshman Jennine Strange (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and freshman Monique Vines (Raleigh, N.C./Southeast Raleigh Magnet) all set Elon records during the two-day meet.
Abel amassed 3935 points to place fifth in the heptathlon, Beeler (18:06.84) and Flynn (18:09.27) finished fifth and sixth in the 5,000-meter run, Flynn (11:15.26) ran to third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and Strange (58.04 seconds) ended up third in her heat of the 400-meter dash. Vines set new Phoenix plateaus in both triple jump (11.79 meters) for seventh place and the long jump (5.62 meters) for ninth.
Senior Angela Carlberg (Baltic, S.D./Washigton) and junior Katelyn Ealer (Bear, Del./Middletown) also scored points for the Phoenix. Carlberg finished seventh in the discus throw, following a heave of 37.56 meters (123-03). Ealer placed seventh in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 40:01.80.
4/23/2007
BOONE, N.C. – Elon senior Jessica Clendenning (Chesapeake, Va./Hickory) jumped 3.80 meters (12-05.50), springing to her third consecutive SoCon pole vault title Sunday at the 2007 Southern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Kidd Brewer Stadium on the Appalachian State campus.
Clendenning competed in all eight Southern Conference championships – four indoors and four outdoors – during her career at Elon, earning a top-three finish for all-conference accolades in the pole vault seven times. She won the event outdoors last spring and indoors this past winter.
Thanks to a 3.90-meter leap earlier this season, Clendenning is currently tied for 27th in the country among NCAA Division I women’s pole vaulters and has ranked as high as 19th this season. She is currently tied for fifth among East Region athletes in her event. Clendenning will make her second consecutive East Regional appearance next month.
Georgia Southern (223.50 points) claimed the team title, followed by Appalachian State (173.50), Western Carolina (160), Chattanooga (69), The Citadel (56), Elon (50), Davidson (36), Furman (28), College of Charleston (19), Wofford (4) and UNC Greensboro (0).
Junior Dominique Price (Burlington, N.C./Cummings) scurried to third place in the finals of the 100-meter hurdles, turning in a time of 14.38 seconds. She was timed at 14.44 seconds during the preliminaries, good for second place in her heat.
Senior Alice Turner (Durham, N.C./Hillside) sprinted to sixth place in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles, crossing the finish line in 1:05.10 after scampering to a time of 1:03.90 to place second in her heat during the preliminaries.
Sophomore Kimberly Abel (Marlton, N.J./Haddonfield Memorial), freshman Caitlin Beeler (Cary, N.C./Cardinal Gibbons), sophomore Anna Mae Flynn (Banner Elk, N.C./Watauga), freshman Jennine Strange (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and freshman Monique Vines (Raleigh, N.C./Southeast Raleigh Magnet) all set Elon records during the two-day meet.
Abel amassed 3935 points to place fifth in the heptathlon, Beeler (18:06.84) and Flynn (18:09.27) finished fifth and sixth in the 5,000-meter run, Flynn (11:15.26) ran to third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and Strange (58.04 seconds) ended up third in her heat of the 400-meter dash. Vines set new Phoenix plateaus in both triple jump (11.79 meters) for seventh place and the long jump (5.62 meters) for ninth.
Senior Angela Carlberg (Baltic, S.D./Washigton) and junior Katelyn Ealer (Bear, Del./Middletown) also scored points for the Phoenix. Carlberg finished seventh in the discus throw, following a heave of 37.56 meters (123-03). Ealer placed seventh in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 40:01.80.
