By Jared Fields, Managing Editor Just two weeks after the national indoor meet in Boston, the Wildcats have already automatically qualified four athletes for the national outdoor meet in Charlotte, N.C., the last weekend in May. Three athletes qualified this weekend at the Oliver Jackson Open at Elmer Gray Stadium. Two automatic qualifiers were ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor On paper, the men's and women's track teams may not be the favorites, but a title at the national indoor meet would not be that far of a stretch for the imagination. "Sneaking up from behind is a lot easier," said head coach Don Hood. Hood was referring to the men sneaking up, who qualified 12 people for the ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor BOSTON - In a championship meet where athletes and coaches hope for the best, the first day of competition at the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships went for more of the worse for the ACU men's and women's track teams. For the women, Shawna Kaye-Thompson, who qualified in three events, strained her ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor BOSTON - Friday the men's team scored just five points, but found a way Saturday to finish with 48.5 points to claim second place as a team at the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships. The women's team finished fourth with 36 points. Lincoln University won the women's meet with 105 points. The women's ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor The ACU track and field team boasts the top pole vaulters in the nation after a record-setting weekend at Oklahoma Christian. Angie Aguilar highlighted the weekend by setting a NCAA Division II record in the pole vault with a height of 13-7.00. She beat the record, set just one week earlier, by half an inch, or ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor The Wildcats left Oklahoma with some bettered qualifying marks for the indoor national meet in Boston on March 9-10. In the women's shot put, Liga Klavina improved her provisional mark with a throw of 46-08.25. In the 800 meters, Venessa Whittle improved to a time of 2:14.72, but headcoach Hood said time will ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor The 6'8" Frenchman stands in the middle of the dance floor in Oplin. Slender with short blond hair, he stands amazed at what to him looks like a scene out of a Western movie. For Camille Vandendriessche, the ACU campus is not the Texas he anticipated. The taste of Texas country in Oplin, the "old gentleman with a ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor After splitting his teams across three meets last weekend, head coach Don Hood returned with three new automatic qualifiers and eight provisional marks. All but two provisional marks came in Arkansas at the Tyson Indoor Invitational. "The highlights there were probably Serge [Gasore] and Nicodemus [Naimadu]," ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor Head coach Don Hood will send his men's and women's teams to three different meets this weekend to qualify or better his team's marks for the indoor national meet in Boston on March 9-10. Hood will take people to meets at Texas Tech, Arkansas and Iowa State. Hood now wants to get everyone he can qualified for ... [Read More…]

By Jared Fields, Managing Editor "It didn't start off with a bang but it sure ended with one," Hood said. "I think everyone came back and realized we're going to be really good." The Wildcats automatically qualified for two events at the national meet at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. last weekend. The women's distance ... [Read More…]