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Hardy Participating in NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship
3/8/2005 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
March 11, 2005
Fayetteville, Ark. - Tulsa senior Melanie Hardy will be participating in the 800-meter run at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., March 11-12.
Hardy ran a 2:05.79 at the NCAA Qualifier in Ames, Iowa Saturday, shattering her previous record of 2:08.12, set at the WAC Indoor Championships one week ago, to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Hardy's time is currently the sixth-best time in the country. There will be 16 other runners in her event.
Hardy, from Jamaica, N.Y., has recorded four school records this indoor season, in three different distances. Hardy has the record in the 600-meter dash, the 800-meter run, twice, and the 1,000-meter run.
Hardy is scheduled to run in the preliminaries in the 800-meter run Friday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. and the finals in the event at Saturday, March 12 at 6:35 p.m.
The 2005 Indoor Track and Field Championship 800-meter run field: Event 20 Women 800 Meter Run RANK ATHLETE YR SCHOOL SEED TIME DATE ==== ======================= == ======================= =========== ===== 1 Nicole Cook SR Tennessee 2:00.75 02-27 2 Aneita Denton SR Arkansas 2:01.96 02-27 3 Neisha Bernard-Thomas SR LSU 2:04.42 02-27 4 Lysaira Roman-DelValle SR Kansas St. 2:04.43 03-05 5 Mable Kunihira FR Oral Roberts 2:04.84 03-05 6 Melanie Hardy SR Tulsa 2:05.79 03-05 7 Beth Heimann SR Kentucky 2:05.93 02-27 8 Ada Anderson JR Iowa St. 2:06.54 02-12 9 Ashley Patten JR Missouri 2:06.54 02-05 10 Chloe Jarvis SR California 2:06.65 02-26 11 Carlene Robinson FR Illinois 2:06.69 02-05 12 Beata Rudzinska SR Akron 2:06.85 03-05 13 Morgan Uceny SO Cornell 2:06.90 03-06 14 Paige Farrell FR Arkansas 2:07.06 02-27 15 Ashley Freeman SO Stanford 2:07.21 03-05
16 Amanda Miller FR Washington 2:07.32 03-05 17 Trisa Nickoley FR Missouri 2:07.45 02-12
