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Big 12 Indoor Championships
Tech Adds Three Titles on Final Day of Championships
February 24, 2007 | Track and Field
Feb. 24, 2007
AMES, Iowa - The Texas Tech track teams finished the conference championships on Saturday with an additional three Big 12 titles. The Red Raiders finished the 2007 Big 12 Championships hosted by Iowa State with six titles, the most in a single indoor season for Tech men and women combined. In 2005, Texas Tech finished with three titles (2 women, 1 men).
In team standings, the Red Raider women finished third with 93 points, while the men took sixth place with 70.50. Texas A&M women took the title for the women, while Texas won the men's.
With three Red Raiders competing in the 60M hurdles, senior Marlon Odom came out on top as the champion with a run of 7.77, an NCAA provisional mark. In third place with a personal-best mark was freshman Omo Osaghae as he clocked a time of 7.91. The time marked Osaghae's first provisional mark of his young Tech career. Also earning three points for the men's standing was Jansen Hyde with a sixth-place finish. Hyde ran a time of 7.96 to mark a new personal best.
In the women's mile, Sally Kipyego notched her second Big 12 indoor title, adding to her distance medley relay victory from day one. The Big 12 cross country champion ran a time of 4:38.18 to break the school mile record with a new PR and second NCAA automatic qualifying time in the event.
In the women's 3000M, Kipyego took her third title of the event as she finished first with Irene Kimaiyo taking second place. Kipyego finished with a time of 9:11.41 while Kimaiyo ran a mark of 9:18.21. Adding another point for the women was Violet Chemakwila, who took eighth place with a time of 9:47.23.
Finishing with a personal best and a second-place finish in his first conference championships was freshman Brandon Washington. The Houston, Texas, native finished the 600Y run with a time of 1:08.98 to take the runner-up position and add eight points to the men's team standings.
Also becoming the Big 12 runner-up was senior Zach Glavash in the 800M. Glavash, a 2006 All-American in the event, finished with a time of 1:50.57, .03 of a second ahead of third place.
Lacy Wilson broke her own Tech record in the women's high jump as she cleared a height of 6'-0". The mark earned Wilson, the 2005 indoor high jump champion, the runner-up spot.
Distance runner Kevin Chelimo took third in the men's 3000M. The cross country All-American ran a time of 8:08.70.
Other Red Raider freshman placing were field performers Anthony Flemons and Brian Porter. Flemons finished sixth in the triple jump as he leapt a distance of 50'-2", a provisional mark. Porter cleared a height of 16'-7.5" to tie for fifth place.
With additional points and personal bests on both sides were sophomores D'Andra Carter and Asia Diaz and freshman Justin Turner. In the women's shot put, Carter threw for a distance of 48'-9" to beat her previous best (47'-2.5") by over a foot and finish seventh. Diaz finished the women's 800M in fifth place with a PR of 2:10.75. At his first Big 12 meet, Turner placed seventh after clearing 6'-9.75", tying his career high.
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