CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- Diana Cauldwell won the national title in the women's triple jump as Lincoln's track & field teams completed day two of the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships on Friday (May 25).Cauldwell, who previously had finished as the national runner-up in the long jump, claimed the championship in the triple jump with a distance of 13.16m. Cauldwell's win gives Lincoln 18 total points, placing the Blue Tigers in second entering the final day of the championship meet.
The Lincoln women additonally qualified two finals entries in the 200m, as Rene Medley posted a time of 23.49 and Christine Moss finished in 24.12. LU will also be in the finals of the 4x400m relay as the foursome of Moss, Shanice Clarke, Renea Ambersley and Segale Brown posted a qualifying time of 3:39.39. Rusheda Blake, meanwhile, also competed in the triple jump, placing 21st at 11.48m.
The Lincoln men competed in just one event on Friday, the preliminaries of the 200m dash. Javan Gray placed 20th, timing in at 21.75, and Roberto Smith claimed 21st with a time of 21.76.
Both Blue Tiger track & field teams will conclude the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships on Saturday (May 26).
Diana Cauldwell finished second in the women's long jump to highlight day one of the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships for Lincoln on Thursday (May 24).
Cauldwell scored eight points for Lincoln with her national runner-up distance of 6.23m, and the Blue Tiger women are tied for sixth through the first day of competition.
The women's 4x100m relay team of Cauldwell, Rene Medley, Shaian Vandenburg and Christine Moss won the preliminary race with a time of 44.86, and Medley won the prelims of the 100m in 11.54. In the 400m dash, Renea Ambersley qualified for the finals with a time of 53.74 while Moss finished just outside of the qualifiers with a time of 54.99. Meanwhile, in the prelims of the 400m hurdles, Shanice Clarke took 10th in 1:00.61.
On the men's side, the 4x100m relay squad of Javan Gray, Roberto Smith, Stephen Rose and Jakiel David qualified for the finals after clocking in at 40.09. In the 100m, meanwhile, Smith made the finals with a time of 10.50 while Rose's time of 10.52 just barely missed the cut for finals.
Coy Spence (51.93) and Alva Henry (53.41) took 10th and 15th, respectively, in the preliminaries of the 400m hurdles. Kizan David competed in the finals of the long jump, placing 15th with a leap of 7.27m.
Dan Carr, Assistant AD for Media Relations
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI MEDIA RELATIONS
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