Jackson Qualifies for Track Nationals

Release Date: April 11, 2000

Monmouth College’s Constance Jackson secured an automatic berth at this year’s Division III National Outdoor Track and Field Championships, running a third-place time of 24.95 in the 200-meter dash Saturday at a meet hosted by Washington University in St. Louis.

On the men’s side, Scott Stanton did the next best thing, besting the provisional time in the 110-meter high hurdles. He was clocked in 14.82 as he won the race. Should Stanton’s time hold up as a national-qualifying mark, it would be his first appearance at the outdoor nationals. In March, he placed eighth in the nation in the indoor 55-meter hurdles. Stanton added a fourth-place finish Saturday in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles (56.06), accounting for 15 of Monmouth’s 55 points.

As a team, the men placed fifth out of 17 squads, while the women were eighth of 20.

Jackson, a junior, will be making her second appearance in three years at the national meet, which will be held May 25-27 in Naperville, Ill. As a freshman, she qualified individually in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and in the 4x100. Her 200 time was just .09 shy of Stacy Brown’s school record set in 1998. Jackson added a second-place finish Saturday in the long jump (17’ 2-3/4") and a sixth in the 100-meter dash (12.42).

Two other entries just missed provisional marks. The women’s 4x100 squad of Jackson, Philicia Moredock, Elise Estes and Jill Hoops took second, with their time of 49.69 falling just four-tenths of a second shy. Hoops missed the provisional mark in the 400-meter hurdles by six-hundredths of a second as she ran a second-place time of 1:05.03.

Other point-scorers for Monmouth included: Eric Holmes, first in the shot put, 49’ 4-1/4"; Aaron Walker, second in the pole vault, 14’ 8-1/4"; the second-place women’s 4x400 squad, 4:02.73; Chris Lacy, third in the 400-meter dash, 50.95; the fourth-place men’s 4x100 squad, 43.31; Melissa Jones, fourth in the high jump, 5’ 2-1/2"; Cort Mills, fourth in the high jump, 6’ 4-3/4"; Kara Kuhrts, fifth in the triple jump, 34’ 3/4"; Moredock, sixth in the 400, 59.97; Mills, sixth in the javelin, 154’ 7"; Tobias Dickerson, seventh in the shot put, 44’ 3"; and Will Smith, eighth in the triple jump, 42’ 3-1/4."

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