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NCAA Outdoor Championships
Green Qualifies For 800m Semifinals At NCAA Championships
6/12/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
June 12, 2003
Sacramento, Calif. - Nikeya Green, a middle distance runner on the Wake Forest women's track & field team, ran a time of 2:04.60 in the 800m preliminaries Wednesday at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Sacramento State University. Green advances to the semifinals Thursday morning at 11:05 a.m. (PDT). The top three from each of the four heats, plus the next four best times advance to the semifinals Thursday morning at 11:05 a.m. and she was second in her heat with the fifth best time of the day.
A junior from Woodbridge, Va., Green is a three-time All-American and a three-time All-ACC selection. She owns the 11th best outdoor 800m time in the nation this season with her school-record-breaking 2:04.46 at the NCAA Regional Championships May 30.
The top three from each heat, plus the next two fastest times in the 800m semifinals Thursday will advance to the final, which is 8:20 p.m. on Saturday.
Anna Sherman and Anne Bersagel, the other two Demon Deacon competitors at the NCAA Championships, begin competition Thursday as Sherman will run in the 1,500m preliminaries at 7:00 p.m. and Bersagel will run in the 10,000m final at 9:00 p.m. Sherman owns the 18th best outdoor 1,500m time in the nation this season and Bersagel has the fourth best 10,000m time.
For complete results of the NCAA Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships, go to ncaasports.com.
