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LANDOVER, Md. – The Hampton University women's track & field team won the 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Indoor Track & Field Championship on Saturday at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex.

The Lady Pirates have won back-to-back MEAC indoor titles and nine of the last 10. They finished this year's meet with 161.5 points – 40.5 points more than second-place Maryland Eastern Shore.

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

“We came in with the intentions thinking we could win the title,” Pierce said. “It played out in our favor when we scored so many points in the high jump and the pentathlon.”

Senior Claudia Calder (Kingston, Jamaica) shared Outstanding Field Performer honors with Shamire Rothmiller of South Carolina State after both of them scored 18 points for the weekend. Calder won the women's pentathlon with a MEAC-record 3,636 points.

Sophomore Breana Norman (Virginia Beach, Va.) won three MEAC titles; she took the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.49, ran a 24.54 to win the 200-meter dash and won the 60-meter hurdles with a season-best 8.47.

The Lady Pirates also won the 4x400-meter relay after running a 3:45.43, as Calder combined with sophomore Emmy Fraenk (Hampton, Va.), freshman Cassandra Jones (Norfolk, Va.) and sophomore Cydney Robinson (Portsmouth, Va.).

Sophomore Alaine Tate (Queens, N.Y.) set a school record in the 800-meter run, clocking in at 2:09.93 to finish second. She also came in third in the mile run after recording a 5:14.37, and she anchored the distance medley relay team that finished second with a season-best time of 12:08.37.

Calder jumped a season-best 1.72 meters to come in second in the high jump, while sophomore Teiara Denmark (Virginia Beach, Va.) came in third at 1.67 meters. Norman also jumped 1.67 meters to finish fourth.

Denmark finished third in both the long jump (5.77 meters) and triple jump (11.96 meters).

The Pirates finished fifth in the men's team standings with 46 points. Norfolk State tallied 161.5 points on the men's side for its seventh straight MEAC indoor crown.

Senior Reggie Dixon (Plainfield, N.J.) turned in the Pirates' best individual finish of the weekend, coming in second in the 60-meter dash after running a 6.79. Sophomore Je'Von Hutchison (Boynton, Fla.) turned in second-place effort of his own by running a season-best 47.92 in the 800-meter dash.

Hutchison also ran a 1:55.10 in the 800-meter run to come in fifth.

The Pirates ran a combined 10:22.14 in the distance medley relay to finish fourth.

Senior Devan Clark (Lorton, Va.) came in fifth in the weight throw with a season-best distance of 15.37 meters.

For more information on Hampton University track & field, please call the Office of Sports Information at (757) 727-5811, or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.