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MEAC INDOOR TRACK & FIELD NOTES | WEEK 2 WEEK 2 12/11 2019-20 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD NOTES MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE 48 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE RANKINGS 2020 Indoor Preseason Rankings from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) will be released on Jan. 8, 2020 THIS WEEK CONFERENCE NOTES No competitions MEAC OVERVIEW • The 2019-20 MEAC indoor track & field season season will see all of the conference’s 11 institutions vying for the men’s and wom- en’s championships (though the Florida A&M men are ineligible for both the conference championship and postseason). North Caroli- na A&T State is the defending indoor champion for both the men and the women. OPENING WEEK • The 2019-20 MEAC indoor track & field season opened this past Saturday, with 10 of the conference’s 11 teams in action across five different meets. Coppin State will open its 2019-20 indoor season after the New Year. LAST SEASON • North Carolina A&T State swept the men’s and women’s MEAC indoor titles for the third straight year -- becoming the first program in conference history to accomplish that feat. The Aggie men re- corded a meet-record 191 points in the three-peat. The MEAC also boasted two national champions during the indoor season: NCAT’s LAST WEEK Kayla White in the women’s 200 meters and South Carolina State’s Tyrell Richard in the men’s 400 meters. Saturday, Dec. 7 Bethune-Cookman at JDL Coll. Kickoff 2020 MEAC CHAMPIONSHIPS Delaware State at UMES Invite • The 2020 MEAC Indoor Track & Field Championships will again Florida A&M at Clemson Opener be held at the Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex in Howard at UMES Invite Landover, Md., Feb. 27-29. North Carolina A&T State is the three- Maryland E. Shore at UMES Invite time defending champion of the three-day event on both the men’s Morgan State at Navy Invitational and women’s side, and last season saw the championship events N.C. A&T State at JDL Coll. Kickoff on Saturday broadcast live on FloTrack. N.C. Central at JDL Coll. Kickoff Norfolk State at CNU Holiday Open S.C. State at Clemson Opener MEAC MEDIA CONTACT Jeff Cunningham Assistant Director of Media Relations Email: [email protected] Phone: 757-951-2055 1 [ MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE | 2019-20 SEASON | MEACSPORTS.COM | @MEACSPORTS ] MEAC INDOOR TRACK & FIELD NOTES | WEEK 2 MEDIA INFORMATION ABOUT THE MEAC MEAC TRACK & FIELD CONTACT INFO STAFF 2730 Ellsmere Ave. Commissioner: Dr. Dennis E. Thomas MEDIA CONTACTS Norfolk, Virginia 23513 Senior Associate Commissioner: Sonja Stills Main: (757) 951-2055 Assistant Commissioner for Championships: Raynoid Dedeaux Fax: (757) 951-2067 Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations: Maurice Williams BETHUNE-COOKMAN Director of Multimedia/Coordinator of Marketing: Marquis Bryant Dan Ryan Director of Video & Digital Production: Darian McCaskill [email protected] Assistant Director of Media Relations: Jeff Cunningham (386) 481-2240 Assistant Director of Championship & Compliance: Wyatt Sutton Director of Corporate Partnerships: Patricia Easley COPPIN STATE Business Manager: Joshua Celestin Steven Kramer Administrative Assistant: Nikki Johnson [email protected] Special Assistant to the Commissioner: Karley Berry (410) 951-3729 DELAWARE STATE Derrick Slayton [email protected] MEAC QUICK FACTS MEAC IN NATIONAL RANKINGS (302) 857-6239 The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) (Top 25 ranked on TFRRS.org through 12/8) begins its 49th year of intercollegiate competi- FLORIDA A&M tion heading into the 2019-20 academic school MEN Alvin Hollins year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made C. Thomas, B-CU 60m t-20th (6.82) [email protected] up of 11 outstanding historically black institutions K. Rantin, MSU 400m 6th (47.5) [email protected] (850) 599-3736 across the Atlantic coastline: Bethune-Cookman B. James, MSU 400m 8th (48.08) University, Coppin State University, Delaware C. Berryhill, B-CU Mile 12th (4:16.77*) HOWARD State University, Florida A&M University, Howard M. McGee, NCAT Mile 16th (4:17.34*) Derek Bryant University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, D. Clyburn, HOW 60h t-21st (8.08) [email protected] Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, Florida A&M 4x400 19th (3:16.64) (202) 806-7184 North Carolina A&T State University, North Caro- Maryland E. Shore Dist. Med. 6th (11:04.28*) lina Central University and South Carolina State Delaware State Dist. Med. 8th (11:22.84*) MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE University. The MEAC sponsors 16 Division I (FCS) K. Williams, B-CU HJ t-6th (2.15m) Shawn Yonker sports with automatic qualifying bids for NCAA K. Rhooms, MSU HJ t-10th (2.10m) [email protected] postseason competition in 15 of them: baseball, I. Galloway, B-CU HJ t-25th (2.05m) (410) 651-6289 bowling, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s M. Jones, NCCU HJ t-25th (2.05m) and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s J. Earls, B-CU LJ t-16th (7.22m) MORGAN STATE tennis, men’s and women’s track & field, softball, J. Watkins, UMES LJ t-20th (7.19m) Leonard Haynes [email protected] volleyball and men’s golf. M. McCoy, B-CU TJ 8th (15.09m) (443) 885-3831 J. Earls, B-CU TJ 23rd (14.54m) Kevin Paige SOCIAL MEDIA J. Blanc, NCCU TJ t-25th (14.46m) [email protected] Fans and media members are invited to follow (443) 885-3009 the latest Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference foot- WOMEN ball news through social media. The MEAC Twit- I. Rowe, MSU 800m 1st (2:11.60) NORFOLK STATE ter feed may be accessed @MEACSports and the M. Bissah, NSU 3,000m 7th (9:43.53*) Matt Michalec conference’s official Facebook page is available Howard Dist. Med. 6th (12:50.65*) [email protected] @MEACSports. The MEAC’s Instagram handle is T. Shaw, B-CU HJ t-14th (1.70m) (757) 823-2628 @MEACSports. M. Nichols, B-CU LJ t-6th (6.08m) B. Crenshaw, NCCU TJ t-9th (12.31m) NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE C. McNeal, B-CU TJ t-19th (12.02m) Brian Holloway WEEKLY RELEASE & STATISTICS C. Mitchell, NCCU Weight 25th (18.45m) [email protected] Media members may access PDF versions of the (336) 285-3608 complete weekly release, including conference and team-by-team statistics, on www.MEAC- *converted for track size NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL sports.com. Regular updates of the weekly re- Kyle Serba lease will be distributed via e-mail from the con- [email protected] ference office. To be included on the distribution (919) 530-7054 list, send an e-mail request to Jeff Cunningham at [email protected]. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE Kendrick Lewis [email protected] ANNUAL AWARDS (803) 536-7060 The MEAC will name first, second and third all-conference teams based on individual finishes at the MEAC Indoor Track & Field Championships. Event winners will be named First Team, run- MEAC MEDIA CONTACT ners-up Second Team, and third-place finishers Third Team. The student-athletes with the highest Jeff Cunningham point totals will be named Outstanding Runner Email: [email protected] and Outstanding Field Performer, and the champi- Phone: 757-951-2055 2 onship coach will be named Outstanding Coach. [ MID-EASTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE | 2019-20 SEASON | MEACSPORTS.COM | @MEACSPORTS ] MEAC INDOOR TRACK & FIELD NOTES | WEEK 2 MEAC WEEKLY HONORS DATE MEN’S TRACK MEN’S FIELD WOMEN’S TRACK WOMEN’S FIELD WEEK 1 Keon Rantin, MSU Kelton Williams, B-CU Infinnatie Rowe, MSU Monae Nichols, B-CU WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11 WEEK 12 WEEK 13 WEEK 14 WEEK 15 WEEK 16 WEEK 17 HEAD COACHES DID YOU KNOW? BETHUNE-COOKMAN MORGAN STATE SETTING THE STANDARD Coach: Donald Cooper Coach: Nevill Hodge • The Aggies have won the men’s and wom- 11th season at B-CU 25th season at MSU en’s indoor MEAC titles in each of the past MEAC Men’s Indoor Champion - 2015, 2016 MEAC Men’s Indoor Champion - 1994 three seasons, the first program in confer- ence history to accomplish that feat. In that COPPIN STATE NORFOLK STATE span, North Carolina A&T State has also Coach: Carl Hicks Coach: Kenneth Giles won three MEAC men’s outdoor titles (2017- 19th season at CSU 17th season at NSU 19), two MEAC women’s outdoor titles (2017, MEAC Men’s Indoor Champion - 2006, 2007, 2008, 2019) and the 2018 MEAC men’s cross DELAWARE STATE 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 country title. The NCAT men won MEAC ti- Coach: Stephen Kimes tles in cross country, indoor track & field and 1st season at DSU NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE outdoor track & field in 2018-19, becoming Coach: Duane Ross the first program to complete the trifecta since the Hampton women in 2011-12. FLORIDA A&M 8th season at NCAT Men’s Coach: Skye Dawson MEAC Men’s Indoor Champion - 2017, 2018, 2019 2nd season at FAMU MEAC Women’s Indoor Champion - 2017, 2018, 2019 CROSS COUNTRY RECAP Women’s Coach: Nadia Alexander-Pompey • Norfolk State swept the 2019 MEAC men’s 1st season at FAMU NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL and women’s cross country titles on Satur- Coach: Tavius “TJ” Walker day, Oct. 26 at the Delaware State Sports HOWARD 4th season at NCCU & Learning Complex in Smyrna, Del. For Coach: David Oliver the men, it was their first title since 2017 3rd season at HOW SOUTH CAROLINA STATE and 13th overall, while the Spartan women Coach: Jerod Wims claimed their first championship since 2009 1st season at SCSU and second overall.