Campbell Breaks Meet Record With 13.01 In 100-Meter Hurdles, Part Of Three Wins

By David Woods for DyeStat

Photos courtesy NAIA

Life University’s Briana Campbell, an 18-year-old Jamaican, was a triple winner and became an Under-20 world leader in the NAIA Championships at Marion, Ind.

British Columbia won men’s and women’s team titles, duplicating its 2019 sweep. The Thunderbirds’ women have won four in a row and five of the past six.

Temperatures were unseasonably cool – 50s and low 60s – during the three-day meet that culminated Friday at Indiana Wesleyan University.

In women’s standings, British Columbia scored 105 points to 77 for runner-up Life (Ga.). William Carey (Miss.) was third with 53 and Dickinson State (N.D.) fourth with 38.

In men’s standings, British Columbia scored 74 to 53 for runner-up Madonna (Mich.). William Carey was third by a 44-43 margin over indoor champion Marian (Ind.), which had DNFs in both 4x100-meter and 4x400 relays.

Campbell set a meet record of 13.01 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles, bettering her U20 world lead of 13.05 from May 2 at Nashville, Tenn.

Soon thereafter, she won the 100 meters in 11.38. She capped her day by taking the 200 in 23.27.

Sharing outstanding performer with Campbell on the women’s side was racewalker Olivia Lundman, a Canadian Olympian. Lundman lowered her meet record to 22:22.79 in the 5-kilometer walk Thursday.

The Thunderbirds’ other champions were Campbell Mackenzie, 800 in 2:07.55; Holly MacGillivray, 1,500 in 4:21.30; Elysse Fleming, steeplechase, 10:37.31; 4x800 relay, 8:57.89, and Sonya Urbanowicz, pole vault, 13-1.50 (4.00m).

Taylor freshman Jaynie Halterman, the NAIA cross-country and indoor 5,000 champion, swept the 10K and 5K in 34:10.10 and 16:41.41.

Printassia Johnson, of the Bahamas, won the 400 in 52.46 and ran a leg on the Life team that won the 4x400 in 3:45.29.

IU-Kokomo’s Sydney Duncan won the shot put (55-1/16.19m) and was second in the discus (163-3/49.76m).

Men: Doane’s Zach Turner sweeps hurdles

Outstanding men’s performer was Doane (Neb.) senior Zach Turner, who became the first since 1999 to sweep all three NAIA hurdles (60 indoors, 110 and 400 outdoors).

Turner took the110 hurdles in 13.72, breaking the meet record of 13.75 by Dominique DeGrammont of Azusa Pacific in 2003. He won the 400 hurdles in 51.08.

Elsewhere, Ghanaian sprinter Barnabas Aggerh tied a 33-year-old meet record in the 100 meters with a time of 10.06. He tied Azusa Pacific’s Davidson Ezinwa, a 1992 Olympic silver medalist on Nigeria’s 4x100 relay and a former U20 world record holder.

British Columbia scored 20 points from a 1-3-5 finish Wednesday in the javelin, led by Theo Manuel’s throw of 208-2 (63.45m). The T-birds scored 18 from a 1-2 by 5K walkers Lowell Solmes (20:43.77) and Tyler Wilson (20:49.23)

British Columbia’s other winner was Dylan Uhrich, 8:59.39 in the steeplechase.

Milligan’s Bryn Woodall won the 1,500 in 3:41.93, near the 13-year-old meet record of 3:41.39 held by Oklahoma Christian’s Silas Kisorio.

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