2010 MEAC Indoor Championships event schedule

Meet Notes

LANDOVER, Md. – The Hampton University men's and women's track & field teams will compete in the 2010 MEAC Indoor Championships this Friday and Saturday at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex.

The Lady Pirates will be looking for their eighth consecutive indoor championship, while the Pirates will look to improve upon last year's third-place finish in the team standings. The Lady Pirates scored 148 points in taking the 2009 indoor crown, with Racquel Vassell (Irvington, N.J.) winning three event titles en route to scoring 40.5 points by herself and wrapping up Most Outstanding Performer.

Head coach Maurice Pierce was named the meet's Most Outstanding Coach.

Vassell won MEAC titles in the long jump (6.03 meters), 60-meter dash (7.47) and 200-meter dash (24.18), while also finishing second in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.36. Francena McCorory (Hampton, Va.) won the 400-meter dash in 53.22, while former Lady Pirates Krystle Medlin and Rachel Lewis also took home MEAC titles. Medlin won the 3,000-meter run in 10:16.93, while Lewis won the triple jump with a distance of 12.40 meters.

The Pirates finished third in the team standings with 96 points, while Norfolk State scored 150 points to take its fourth straight MEAC indoor team title. Reggie Dixon (Plainfield, N.J.) took the MEAC title in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.71, while David Kimani (Kenya) won the mile run in 4:21.77.

Hampton wrapped up the 2009-10 indoor regular season by winning a combined three event titles this past weekend in the Armory New Balance Collegiate Invitational. Vassell won the long jump college competition with a personal- and season-best mark of 6.16 meters – just .01 meters shy of tying the school record, which Yvette Lewis set in 2005.

Jahlisa Smith (Plainfield, N.J.), Claudia Calder (Kingston, Jamaica), Janean Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kenya Jones (Chesapeake, Va.) took the distance medley relay college race, running a combined season-best 11:50.18 to take the gold.

Damon Dixon (Great Falls, Va.) gave the Pirates their lone event title in the Armory New Balance meet, taking the high jump eastern event with a school-record height of 2.04 meters. The old record of 2.03 meters was set in 2003 by William Phillips.

Thursday's action has been cancelled due to inclement weather in the area. Friday's action will begin at 9 a.m. with the men's heptathlon and the women's shot put. Saturday's action will start at 9 a.m. with the women's pole vault and women's pentathlon.

To follow along with the action, visit the official MEAC website at www.MEACsports.com. For more information on Hampton University track & field, please call Jeff Cunningham in the Office of Sports Information at (757) 727-5811, or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.