Teams: Women's Track & Field: Schedule & Results

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
NCAA Championships
At Berea, OH
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Meet Results

Nakeisha Jones posted her fourth All-American effort indoors and outdoors at the NCAA's

BEREA, Oh. -- The Tufts University women's outdoor track & field team gave three All-American performances on Saturday at the 2010 NCAA Championships hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College. The Jumbos finished 20th in the nation on the strength of those efforts, scoring 13.5 points.

Sophomore Nakeisha Jones (Boston, MA) recorded her fourth NCAA top-five finish in the triple jump, placing third overall. She was second in her preliminary with a distance of 38'7" (11.76m). She went an inch-plus further in the final, reaching 39'7 1/4" for third place overall. Previously, she was third at NCAA Outdoors last season, and has been second Indoors this past winter and fourth Indoors in 2009.

In her first NCAA appearance, first year Kelly Allen (Norton, MA)  took fourth place in the discus throw. Her 141'1" (43.01m) distance in the first flight was third. She bumped it up to 143-flat (43.59m) in the finals. The All-American showing completed a fantastic season in the event, during which she set a new Tufts discus record of 146'7" (44.67m).

Sophomore Dayorsha Collins (Boston, MA) picked up her first All-American plaque by tying for fifth in the high jump. She cleared 5'5 3/4" (1.67m) to finish in a four-way tie for fifth place. In her previous NCAA meet, she had been 11th at the 2009 NCAA Indoors for the event.

All three Jumbos out-performed their seeds entering the '10 NCAA meet. Jones had the eighth-best triple jump entering the meet, while Allen and Collins were both ranked 12th in their respective events.

Junior Kanku Kabongo (Abington, MA) was also in the NCAA triple jump field, but did not qualify for the final with her 37'1 1/4" length in the preliminaries.

All four Tufts athletes compete on Saturday only during the three-day event.

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