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Dec. 5, 2008

Complete Results

CARBONDALE, Ill. - The University of Louisville's men and women's track and field teams opened the 2008-09 indoor season in impressive fashion with six event titles, two NCAA Championship provisional qualifiers and a school record on Friday at the Fast Start Invitational hosted by Southern Illinois University.

Leading the way for the Cardinals women team was Central Arizona College transfer, Saravia Richardson. Richardson, a junior from Moreno Valley, Calif., won the preliminaries and set the school record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.57. She posted a time of 7.61 in the finals to take third overall.

D'Ana McCarty finished first for the Cards in the weight throw with a throw of 67-00.50, the second best in school history. She finished over six feet ahead of the second-place finisher and earned a NCAA provisional qualifying mark. McCarty also finished second in the shot put with a throw of 49-03.00 behind freshman Khadija Abdullah who made an impressive debut winning the shot put title in her first collegiate meet with a throw of 50-11.00, earning an NCAA provisional qualifying mark.

Junior Rachel Gehret picked up right where she left off last season by winning the high jump with a jump of 5-08.00. Teammate Brittany Hotaling tied for second-place clearing 5-04.25.

The women's team posted yet another first-place finish with junior Theresa Lewis winning both the preliminary and the final in the 60-meter hurdles with times of 8.53 (U of L fourth all-time) and 8.60, respectively. Joining the first-place finishers was junior Kat Alcorn who won the mile in 5:09.89, seven seconds ahead of the next runner. Freshman Keisha Lockhart finished second in the triple jump with a jump of 40-05.00, while fellow freshman Shane Mullany-Banks finished third in the 600-meter with a time of 1:40.06. The women's 4x400m relay team (Richardson, Kierstan Kirkland, Mullany-Banks, Lockhart) posted a third-place finish with a time of 4:01.18.

Meanwhile, sophomore Kyle Gann finished third in the pole vault clearing 15-01.00, while teammate and fellow sophomore Chris Wolfe finished third in the 800-meters with a time of 1:55.78.

The Cards will have a little over a month to prepare for their next meet on Jan. 10 at the Indiana Open in Bloomington, Ind.

SIU Fast Start Invitational - Carbondale, Ill.

U of L Women's Individual Results
60m - Prelims
1	Richardson, Saravia	7.57q *
11	Lewis, Theresa		7.80q
19	Howard, Brittany		8.11
26	Hampton, Danielle		8.89
60m - Finals
3	Richardson, Saravia	7.61
60m Hurdles - Prelims
1	Lewis, Theresa		8.53q
6	Kirkland, Kierstan		9.07q
60m Hurdles - Finals
1	Lewis, Theresa		8.60
10	Kirkland, Kierstan		9.59
200m
22	Mobley, Alexandra		27.07
27	Hampton, Danielle		28.92
400m
17	Mobley, Alexandra		1:02.24
600m
3	Mullany-Banks, Shane	1:40.06
8	Stokes, D'minia		1:47.13
Mile
1	Alcorn, Kat		5:09.89
High Jump
1	Gehret, Rachel		1.73m/5-08.00
2	Hotaling, Brittany		1.63m/5-04.25
4	Schubert, Megan		J1.63m/5-04.25
--	Pressley, Jenean		NH
Long Jump
4	Gehret, Rachel		5.83m/19-01.504
6	Pressley, Jenean		5.65m/18-06.50
10	Howard, Brittany		5.42m/17-09.50
13	Lockhart, Keisha		5.29m/17-04.25
23	Amundson, Karen		4.60m/15-01.25
--	Omenyinma, Amaka	         FOUL
--	Forde, Seidre		SCR
Triple Jump
2	Lockhart, Keisha		12.32m/40-05.00
5	Omenyinma, Amaka	         11.67m/38-03.50
7	Pressley, Jenean		11.59m/38-00.25
--	Forde, Seidre		SCR
Pole Vault
-	Andrea Sabbatine		SCR
-	Megan Schubert		SCR
Shot Put
1	Abdullah, Khadija		15.52mP/50-11.00
2	McCarty, D'Ana		15.01m/49-03.00
Weight Throw
1	McCarty, D'Ana		20.43mP/67-00.50
4x400m Relay
3				4:01.18

U of L Men's Individual Results
200m
34	Black, Andre		23.52
800m
3	Wolfe, Chris		1:55.78
High Jump
2	Belt, Tone		J2.09m/6-10.25
--	Feinberg, Phil		SCR
Long Jump
1	Belt, Tone		7.34m/24-01.00
8	Smith, Wesley		6.93m/22-09.00
Triple Jump
--	Belt, Tone		SCR
Pole Vault
3	Gann, Kyle		4.60m/15-01.00

* = School record
P= NCAA Indoor qualifying mark