Kent State University
NCAA Championships
T&F Sends Barnes and Tolbert to NCAA Indoor Championships Friday
3/10/2016 9:18:00 AM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field
Kent State's track and field program sends seniors William Barnes and Donovan Tolbert to Birmingham, Ala. to compete in the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, slated for Friday, March 11th and Saturday March, 12th. The championship is being held at Samford University's Birmingham CrossPlex athletic facility.
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William Barnes will compete in the preliminary round of the 60-meter hurdles on Friday at 6:10pm CT / 7:10 ET, while Donovan Tolbert will compete in the triple jump on Saturday at 3:30 CT / 4:30 ET.
Both Barnes and Tolbert captured MAC titles at the conference championships in Akron, Ohio back on February 26th and 27th.
For the second year in a row, William Barnes captured MAC titles in the 60m hurdles (7.69) and 200m dash (20.91). Barnes set the MAC Championship record and the Stile Athletics Field House record in the 60m hurdles, as well as set a new personal-record in the 200m dash. Earlier this season, Barnes set the Kent State 60m hurdles record at 7.67, the third fastest time in Division I heading into the championship.
Donovan Tolbert also broke a Stile Athletics Field House record en route to his MAC triple jump title, posting a mark of 16.04m (52' 7.50"). On January 16th at the Doug Raymond, Tolbert broke the 28-year old Kent State triple jump record, only to break his own record a week later with a mark of 16.18m (53' 1.00"), which ranks ninth in the country heading into the indoor championship. Tolbert's performance this season helped lift the Kent State triple jump team to the number one ranking in country in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) standings.
2015 NCAA Indoor
At last year's indoor championship in Fayetteville, Ark., Barnes ran in the 60 hurdles preliminaries, finishing 15th with a time of 7.95 seconds.
Dior Delophont came away in eighth place in the women's high jump with a mark of 1.84m (6' 0.5"), while Danniel Thomas took eleventh in the women's shot put with a mark of 16.53m (54' 2.75").
After the NCAA Indoor Championships come to an end, the Golden Flashes will gear up for the beginning outdoor portion of their 2016 schedule at Yellow Jacket Relays on Friday, March 25th.
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