Wake Forest Athletics
Trio of Deacons Will Head to NCAA Indoor Championships
3/8/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
March 8, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -
2007 Indoor Performance List - NCAA Championship Central - Results
The Wake Forest track and field teams will send three student-athletes to the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend to test their skills against the best competition in the country. Senior Michelle Sikes, junior Michael Bingham and sophomore Brent LaRue will travel to Arkansas ranked among the nation's best in their respective events.
Sikes enters the NCAA Championships as the only Deacon to have recorded an automatically-qualifying time in an event. Her time of 15:57.24 in the 5,000-meter run at the ACC Championships not only won her the race and earned her the qualification, but it was also the fourth-fastest time in the nation this season. In addition to the 5K, the Lakewood, Ohio, native will also compete in the 3,000-meter run this weekend, where her time of 9:15.33 at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational on Feb. 3 is the 10th best time in the country. The 5,000m will be run on Friday at 7:50 p.m. while the 3,000m is scheduled for Saturday at 7:35 p.m.
Bingham, a native of Burlington, N.C., currently stands in eighth place on the national performance list in the 400-meter dash with a time of 46.39. The result, which he ran at the Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet on March 3, established a new school record in the event and was a new PR, shaving three tenths of a second off his previous best. The 400-meter preliminaries are scheduled for Friday at 5:50 p.m. with the finals set for Saturday at 7:05 p.m.
LaRue, also a local product out of Kernersville, N.C., is coming off a record-setting performance at the ACC Championships in Clemson, S.C. His score of 5,614 points in the heptathlon was not only a personal best, but it broke the conference championship record in the event. The point total currently sits him at 10th in the national performance list heading into the NCAA Championships. LaRue and the other heptathletes will get the meet underway on Friday beginning at 9 a.m. with the final three events set to begin on Saturday at 11 a.m.
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships will be covered online on ESPN360. Fans can log on to ESPN360.com to watch the events. Coverage will run 2:30-9 p.m. Friday, March 9, and 4:30-9 p.m. Saturday, March 10.
The event, which is hosted by the University of Arkansas Department of Women's Athletics, will be held at the Randal Tyson Track Center, the home of the NCAA Indoor Championships since 2000. One of the fastest indoor tracks in the nation, the Randal Tyson Track Center has a six-lane banked track that has seen 11 of 20 NCAA Indoor records broken on its surface.
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