LANDOVER, Maryland – 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.
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