2016 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships Results (Day 2)
BRADENTON, Fla. – Back at the IMG Academy for its second day of action at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field National Championships, the Urban Knights advanced one more individual,
Mobolade Ajomale (200m), and one relay, the women's 4x400m, to their respective finals. Ajomale came out first overall from the prelims while the relay posted the fourth-lowest time in program history to take sixth overall.
Schae Graham opened with the baton, handing off to
Mistic Scott who ran the best second leg of not just her heat, but any of the 13 teams competing. That move from fifth to second kept Academy of Art in the mix as
Dierra Haven took over and eventually passed to
Keanna Moody for an anchor leg strong enough to earn ART U fourth in its heat. The time of 3:42.54 was sixth in the event and the best the quartet has run this year.
In the men's 200m, Ajomale won his heat with a 20.62 that, while just slightly wind-aided (+2.1), was still a full eight-tenths of a second faster than the next closest finisher, St. Augustine's senior Burkheart Ellis Jr. Ajomale would place first out of 20 total competitors and will represent the lone freshman in Saturday's final.
The day's opening event, the women's triple jump, saw
Rian Young-Werner deliver her day's best, a 40-5 (12.32m) in her second attempt, but it was good only for 10th overall and kept her one spot shy of the final. Ninth place went to senior Jonelle Campbell of Lincoln (Mo.) who jumped 40-7.5 (12.38m) though with the help of a +2.8 wind.
Tomorrow's third and final day of the NCAA DII National Championships will feature
Valentin Pepiot in both the 1500m (5:35 p.m. ET / 2:35 p.m. PT) and 5000m (8:05 p.m. ET / 5:05 p.m. PT) finals, Ajomale in the finals of the 100m (6:35 p.m. ET / 3:35 p.m. PT) and 200m (7:45 p.m. ET / 4:45 p.m. PT), and the women's 4x400m in their own finals at 9:05 p.m. ET (6:05 p.m. PT).
