Troy University Athletics
Troy Wins Two SBC Awards
4/15/2008 5:00:00 AM | Track & Field
NEW ORLEANS, La. - For the second consecutive week, the Troy University Track & Field program won two Sun Belt Conference performance awards, announced by the conference office Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Tawanna Meadows won her third Sun Belt Women's Track Athlete of the Week with another outstanding performance, this week at the LSU Tiger Invitational. Meadows finished second in the 100-meter dash to Tiger Olympian Stephanie Durest with a time of 11.31 seconds. Although she finished second in the race, she broke the school record for the third consecutive week in the event and rose to fifth in the nation with the time. She is also second in the region in the 100-meter dash to LSU's Kelly Baptiste, and with the time, she met the "B"-Standard for the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Meadows also competed in the 200-meter dash, finishing sixth overall with a mark of 23.66 (an NCAA Regional mark, but not as fast as previously ran), and she ran the first leg of the 4x100-meter relay team that finished with a time of 47.02 seconds.
Meanwhile, O'Darien Bassett won his first Sun Belt Conference Male Field Athlete of the Week award with his performance at the LSU Tiger Invitational. Bassett, competing in his first meet of the season after the completion of basketball season, qualified for the NCAA Regionals with his first jump of the season measuring 7.81 meters (25'7"). He followed that jump with another jump of 7.87 meters (25'10") in the finals to capture the gold medal in the event. With his final jump, Bassett claimed the top spot in the MidEast Region and moved to second in the nation, and like Meadows, met the "B"-Standard for the U.S. Olympic Trials.
The Trojans are in action Saturday at the LSU Alumni Gold in Baton Rouge, before hosting the Coach O Invitational on April 26.
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** "B"-Standard athletes are those who attain the "B" standard, and will included in the event only if additional athletes are needed to make the event competitive (i.e., not enough athletes have attained the "A" standard).
