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Hein, Meier Capture BIG EAST Championships

Hein, Meier Capture BIG EAST ChampionshipsHein, Meier Capture BIG EAST Championships

Feb. 18, 2007


    • Complete Results

  • 2007 BIG EAST Indoor Championship Central

    • , -- Seniors Renee Hein (high jump) and Tara Meier (pole vault) won conference titles in their respective events on the final day of competition at the 2007 BIG EAST Indoor Championships at the . The league crowns were the first BIG EAST Indoor titles for the Bearcats in their second year affiliated with the 16-team league. As a team, UC finished 10th after placing 14th at last year's championships.

    Hein, who led the nation for much of the season in the high jump, captured the second indoor conference title of her career with a BIG EAST Indoor Championships-record 6' 0-3/4" clearance. She also won the 2005 Conference indoor championship. She has automatically qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in with a 6' 1-1/2" jump earlier this season. She has won the event at five of the six meets in which she has competed in 2007 and finished second in the other.

    Meier set a school record with a 12' 11-3/4" clearance in capturing her first league title. The mark is an NCAA provisional qualifier and is the top mark in the BIG EAST all season. Teammate Brittany Klima finished fourth in the vault with a 11' 9-3/4" clearance.

    Senior Shintara Carpenter, who holds the school record in the triple jump, finished 3rd in the event with a 39' 11-1/2" leap.

    The 4x400 meter relay team of Dennale Speakman, Ashley Arnold, Dominique Davis, and Courtney Wicks set a school record with a 3:48.25 mark, finishing eighth.

    Freshman Lilian Jelimo had a solid meet against some of the top distance runners in the nation. She finished 13th in the 5,000 meters in 17:23.94, just over a second behind the school-record time of 17:22.40, set in 2001 by P.J. Ball. Jelimo also finished 20th in the 3,000 meters with a personal-best 10:05.41.

    Another freshman, Ashley Arnold, shaved almost three-fourths of a second off her top time in the 400 meters, finishing 10th in prelims with a 57.02.

    Bearcat Finishers

    Shintara Carpenter Triple Jump 3rd 39' 11-1/2"

    Renee Hein High Jump 1st 6' 0-3/4"

    Tara Meier Pole Vault 1st 12' 11-3/4"

    Brittany Klima Pole Vault 4th 11' 9-3/4"

    Jasmine Cotten Pentathlon 6th 3485

    4x400 Relay 8th 3:48.25

    Team Rankings

    1. 112

    2. Notre Dame 102

    3. 78

    4. 76

    4. Villanova 76

    6. 69.5

    7. 46

    8. Seton Hall 38

    8. 38

    10. 34.5

    11. 34

    12. 30

    13. 14

    14. 11

    15. South 10

    15. DePaul 10