March 22, 2007
ATLANTA – The Georgia Tech track and field teams will kick off their 2007 outdoor season at the Wake Forest Open this Friday and Saturday, March 23-24, at Kentner Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The event will feature fellow Atlantic Coast Conference institutions Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest, Virginia and Virginia Tech.
The Tech women’s team is coming off a 14th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships, led by junior Shantia Moss, who earned the national championship in the 60-meter hurdles with a school- and personal-record time of 7.98. Senior Ashlee Kidd placed third in the 400-meter dash at the championship meet with another school- and personal-best time of 51.96.
On the men’s side, junior Jerome Miller was the lone representative at the NCAA Indoor Championships, placing 12th in the high jump with a mark of 7 feet, ¼ inches. Senior James Lemons II, the ACC Indoor title in the triple jump with his best indoor mark of 51 feet, 3 ¾ inches, led the men’s team to a 4th-place finish at the ACC Indoor Championships.
Field events at the Wake Forest Open start at 1 p.m. on Friday with the women’s javelin. Running events begin at 1:45 p.m. with the preliminaries of the Steve Brown 100-meter dash and 100-meter hurdles. Competition restarts at 9 a.m. on Saturday with the Cliff Neal Hammer Throw and will end with the 1,600-meter relay at 6:30 p.m.
Live results for the Wake Forest Open will be provided by flash results. Complete results and updated information will be posted at the end of the day’s events on the official Georgia Tech website (www.ramblinwreck.com).
