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April 15, 2004
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CLEMSON, SC - The Clemson women's track and field team will compete at the 2004 ACC Championships to be held this weekend on teh Belk Track at Fetzer Field on the campus of the University of North Carolina. The meet will begin on Friday morning at 9:30 AM with the hammer throw and conclude on Saturday with the women's 4x400m relay slated for 6:10 PM.
Since Clemson first fielded a complete team in the 1987 season, the Lady Tiger track and field team has been one of the strongest and most consistent teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Lady Tigers have won two ACC titles, and have finished in the top four in the conference 14 of the 20 years the meet has been contested (the first ACC Meet was held in 1983).
The Lady Tigers have won 66 event titles, while only North Carolina and Virginia have won more titles, with 115 and 86, respectively. Clemson has won at least one ACC championship in 19 of the 21 events currently contested. Florida State has claimed 42 championships since joining the league in 1991, Georgia Tech has captured 29 event titles since 1986, while NC State has won 27. Maryland and Wake Forest have won 21 titles each, while Duke has claimed three titles. The Lady Tigers have been particularly strong in the shot put and discus throw. Clemson athletes have won 10 of the last 21 shot put contests, including four of the last six. In the discus throw, the Lady Tigers have won six titles since 1987.
Clemson sprinters have also been strong contenders in the ACC, winning six 4x100m relay titles since 1990. Only Virginia holds as many 400m relay titles as the Lady Tigers. Since 1992, Clemson has won five ACC Championships in the 100m, and Lady Tigers have captured eight titles in the 200m since 1989, including a streak of five titles between 1989 and 1993. The Lady Tigers have won one championship in the 400m, 100m hurdles, 5000m, pole vault and heptathlon, two in the 10,000m, 4x400m relay, triple jump and hammer throw, three titles in the 1500m, 400m hurdles and javelin and four titles in the 800m.
Clemson athletes hold six ACC meet records, four in track events and two in field events. Most recently, junior Gisele Oliveira set the ACC Meet record in the triple jump, recording a leap of 43'10" at the 2003 ACC Championships in Raleigh, NC. Jamine Moton holds the ACC Meet record in the hammer throw with her mark of 206'18" set in 2002. Cydonie Mothersill holds two ACC Meet records, as she set the 200m record and was a member of the record-holding 4x400m relay team. Tina Krebs set the 800m record in 1984, and Kerry Robinson's time in the 5000m still stands from 1983. Lashonda Cutchin, Shekera Weston, Marcia Smith along with Mothersill were members of the 4x400m relay team that set the record in 2001.
Seven Lady Tigers have qualified for the 2004 East Region Championships in six events so far this season. Jessica Cousins, Randi Hinton, Gisele Oliveira, Shakirah Rutherford, Christina Smith, Silja Ulfarsdottir and Sara Young. Cousins has qualified for the region championships as a member of the Lady Tigers' 4x100m relay team. She ran anchor on the 400m relay team that posted a season-best time of 45.37 at the Spec Towns Invitational. Hinton is a member of both Lady Tiger relay teams. She ran third leg on both the 400m relay team and the 1600m relay teams that qualified for the region meet. In her first meet of the season, Oliveira regionally qualified in the long jump with a mark of 19'8.25" at the Spec Towns Invitational. Rutherford has qualified to compete in three events at the East Region Championships. She has a season-best time of 1:00.11 in the 400m hurdles and is a member of the Lady Tiger relay teams. She ran second leg on the 4x100m team and anchored the Clemson 4x400m relay team. Smith will compete in two events at the region meet. She owns a season-best time of 59.79 in the 400m hurdles and runs the second leg of the Lady Tigers' 4x400m relay. Silja Ulfarsdottir is a four-event qualifier, including two individual events and two relay events. Ulfarsdottir qualified for the region meet in the 400m with a time of 53.70 and owns a season-best time of 58.98 in the 400m dash. She runs lead-off on the Lady Tigers' 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams. Clemson's 400m relay team has a season-best of 45.37 set at the Spec Towns Invitational, and the 1600m relay team recorded a time of 3:41.89 at the Clemson Invitational. Young is a regional qualifier in the pole vault, with a season-best clearance of 12'5.5" set at the Clemson Relays.
Under current head coach Marcia Noad, the Lady Tigers have won at least one ACC title in every sprint, hurdle and relay event since 2001. Cydonie Mothersill won both the 100m and 200m in 2001, and Shekera Weston won the 400m in 2001. Kyana Elder was the 100m hurdle champion in 2001, and Michelle Burgher claimed the 400m hurdles that year. The 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay teams each won those titles in 2001 as well. Gisele Oliveira added a triple jump title in 2003, setting an ACC meet record at the same time. Clemson has also dominated the throws in the last two years, winning five titles in the hammer throw, shot put and discus. Under Noad, the Lady Tigers have won 14 ACC titles and 18 Lady Tigers have earned All-ACC honors.
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