MID-EASTERN MEAC Outdoor Track & Field 2019 Season • May 23 Contact: Jeff Cunningham, Asst. Director, Media Relations ATHLETIC CONFERENCE [email protected] • 757.951.2055 48 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE USTFCCCA TEAM COMPUTER RANKINGS (Top 100 ranking for national) MEN WOMEN North Carolina A&T State 9th North Carolina A&T State 12th South Carolina State 44th Norfolk State 40th Coppin State 53rd Bethune-Cookman 85th MID-ATLANTIC REGION Norfolk State 92nd Howard 13th Morgan State 17th MID-ATLANTIC REGION Maryland Eastern Shore 28th Coppin State 10th Coppin State 29th Morgan State 13th Delaware State 32nd Howard 26th Saturday, September 29 Maryland Eastern Shore 27th SOUTH REGION Delaware State 28th Bethune-Cookman 20th Florida A&M 27th SOUTH REGION Savannah State 44th Bethune-Cookman 21st Savannah State 28th SOUTHEAST REGION Florida A&M 30th North Carolina A&T State 4th Norfolk State 17th SOUTHEAST REGION North Carolina Central 28th North Carolina A&T State 4th South Carolina State 46th South Carolina State 17th Norfolk State 18th North Carolina Central 29th UPCOMING SCHEDULE *subject to change Thursday-Saturday, May 23-25, 2019 2019 NCAA East Preliminary Hodges Stadium Jacksonville, Fla. LIVE on FloTrack Wednesday-Saturday, June 5-8, 2019 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships Mike A. Myers Stadium Austin, Texas MEAC track & field • MEACSPORTS.COM 2019 MEAC OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD WEEKLY NOTES: POSTSEASON • PAGE 1 MEAC OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD NOTEBOOK 2730 Ellsmere Ave. Norfolk, Virginia 23513 Main: (757) 951-2055 | Fax: (757) 951-2067 Commissioner: Dr. Dennis E. Thomas Sr. Associate Commissioner: Sonja Stills Assistant Commissioner for Championships: Raynoid Dedeaux Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations: Maurice Williams Director of Multimedia/Coord. of Marketing: Marquis Bryant Director of Corporate Partnerships: Patricia A. Easley Assistant Director of Media Relations: Jeff Cunningham Assistant Director of Champs. & Compliance: Wyatt Sutton Business Manager: Deon Hallback Special Assistant to the Commissioner: Mayisha Kirby Administrative Assistant: Nikki Johnson Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference MEAC Overview Weekly Release & Statistics Track & Field Contacts The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and Media members may access PDF versions of the www.MEACsports.com offers authorized media complete weekly release, including conference Bethune-Cookman immediate access to original, up-to-date informa- and team-by-team statistics, on www.MEAC- Dan Ryan tion from the MEAC and its member institutions. sports.com. Regular updates of the weekly re- [email protected] lease will be distributed via e-mail from the con- (386) 481-2206 ference office. To be included on the distribution About The MEAC Coppin State list, send an e-mail request to Jeff Cunningham Steven Kramer The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) at [email protected]. [email protected] begins its 48th year of intercollegiate competition (410) 951-3729 heading into the 2018-19 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up Annual Awards Delaware State of 12 outstanding historically black institutions The MEAC will name first, second and third Dennis Jones across the Atlantic coastline: Bethune-Cookman all-conference teams (m/w), outstanding per- [email protected] (302) 857-6068 University, Coppin State University, Delaware formers in track and field events and coach of the State University, Florida A&M University, Howard year based on performance at the 2019 MEAC Florida A&M University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Outdoor Championships. Alvin Hollins Morgan State University, Norfolk State Universi- [email protected] ty, North Carolina A&T State University, North (850) 599-3736 Carolina Central University, Savannah State Uni- Howard versity and South Carolina State University. Derek Bryant The MEAC sponsors 16 Division I (FCS) sports [email protected] with automatic qualifying bids for NCAA postsea- (202) 806-7184 son competition in baseball, bowling, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross Maryland Eastern Shore country, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and Shawn Yonker [email protected] women’s track and field, softball, volleyball and (410) 621-2352 men’s golf. Morgan State Leonard Haynes IV [email protected] (443) 885-3831 Norfolk State Matt Michalec [email protected] (757) 823-2628 North Carolina A&T State @MEACSports @MEACSports @MEACSports Brian Holloway [email protected] Social Media (336) 285-3609 Fans and media members are invited to follow North Carolina Central the latest Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference track Kyle Serba & field news through social media. The MEAC [email protected] Twitter feed may be accessed @MEACSports (919) 530-7054 and the conference’s official Facebook page is available @MEACSports. The MEAC’s Insta- Savannah State gram handle is . Opio Mashariki @MEACSports [email protected] (912) 356-2446 South Carolina State Kendrick Lewis/William “Bill” Hamilton [email protected] (803) 378-6165 MEAC track & field • MEACSPORTS.COM 2019 MEAC OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD WEEKLY NOTES: POSTSEASON • PAGE 2 MEAC OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD NOTEBOOK ODDS AND ENDS ***Tyrell Richard (South Carolina State) won the NCAA indoor crown in the men’s 400 meters back in March, while Kayla White of North Carolina A&T State won the NCAA title in the women’s 200 meters -- and finished Track & Field Performers of the Week second in the 60-meter hurdles -- to give the The MEAC will name men’s and women’s track performers of the MEAC two NCAA champions. week each Wednesday throughout the season in the following cat- egories: track performer and field performer. Nominees are submit- ted to the conference office by the institutions’ sports information ***North Carolina A&T State swept the MEAC offices. Winners will be made available via e-mail and the confer- indoor track & field titles this past February, ence website by Wednesday afternoon. becoming the first program in conference his- tory to sweep the men’s and women’s indoor M-TRACK PERFORMER OF THE WEEK W-TRACK PERFORMER OF THE WEEK titles three seasons in a row. South Carolina March 20 Keon Rantin, MSU March 20 Oluchi Ike, HOW March 27 Tyrell Richard, SCSU March 27 T. Robinson, NCAT State swept the men’s and women’s outdoor April 3 Trevor Stewart, NCAT April 3 Kayla White, NCAT titles four years in a row, from 1983-86. April 10 Tyrell Richard, SCSU April 10 Deja Davis, B-CU April 17 Demek Kemp, SCSU April 17 K. Debose-Epps, NCAT April 24 Trevor Stewart, NCAT April 24 Cambrea Sturgis, NCAT ***The North Carolina A&T State men have won MEAC cross country, indoor track & field W-FIELD PERFORMER OF THE WEEK and outdoor track & field titles in 2018-19, M-FIELD PERFORMER OF THE WEEK March 20 Atinuke Shittu, MDES March 20 Marvin Jones, NCCU March 27 Monae Nichols, B-CU becoming the first MEAC program since the March 27 Jeremiah Peters, B-CU April 3 Monae Nichols, B-CU Hampton women in 2011-12 to win all three April 3 Brandon Hicklin, NCAT April 10 Monae Nichols, B-CU in the same academic year. April 10 Jacob Milton, NSU April 17 Q. Morrison, B-CU April 17 Omega Smalls, NCCU April 24 Kaylah Clark, HOW April 24 Bobby Price, NSU ***Kayla White’s 10.96 in the 100 meters at the MEAC Outdoor Championships wasn’t just the nation’s best time so far this season, but according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTF- CCCA), it is the fifth-fastest collegiate time NCAT’S WHITE, STEWART NAMED NATIONAL ATHLETES OF THE WEEK ever. Senior Kayla White was named NCAA Division I Women’s Track Athlete of the Week by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (UST- ***Trevor Stewart’s 44.38 in the 400 me- FCCCA) on Tuesday, May 7. On the men’s side, Trevor Stewart was named NCAA ters three weeks ago in the MEAC Outdoor Division I Track Athlete of the Week by the USTFCCCA. Championships is the 14th-fastest time ever, also according to the USTFCCCA. Both Aggie track athletes turned in historic performances at the 2019 MEAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships last week at N.C. A&T’s Irwin Belk Track. ***Demek Kemp of South Carolina State -- who had already exhausted all of his indoor White ran a 10.96 to win the MEAC outdoor 100 meters for the second straight season eligibility before this past indoor season be- and move to No. 1 in the nation in the event. Her time is also the fifth-fastest time ever gan -- still made noise with a roof over his recorded by a collegiate athlete. White’s 22.52 in the 200 meters over the weekend head, winning the 60-meter dash at the USA is also the fastest time in the nation. It earned her the 200-meter outdoor conference Track & Field Indoor Championships back in title for the second consecutive season. February, running a 6.55. Kemp is back with White also repeated as a member of the MEAC outdoor 4x100-meter relay champi- the Bulldogs for the outdoor campaign. onship team. ***The NCAA East Preliminary will be held Also, for the second straight year, she was named the conference’s most outstanding this Thursday through Saturday in Jackson- athlete. During the winter, she won the indoor national championship in the women’s ville, Fla., hosted by the University of North 200 meters. Florida and the Jacksonville Sports Authority. The NCAA Outdoor Championships will be Stewart ran the 14th-fastest time ever ran in the world in the 400 meters over the June 5-8 in Austin, Texas. weekend with his 44.38 to win the event. Stewart is also seventh nationally in the men’s 200 meters at 20.27. MEAC track & field