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Sunday, February 23
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WT&F: Crown 'Em! Owls Take Home C-USA Indoor Title
2/23/2020 5:30:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
Forbes earns High Point Scorer of Meet, Freshman of the Year
BIRMINGHAM, AL - For the fourth time in program history and the first since 2009, the Rice Owls women's track & field team secured the team title at the Conference USA Indoor Championships Sunday afternoon at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
The Owls amassed 110 points as a team to hold off second place Middle Tennessee (103 points).
Rice freshman distance runner Grace Forbes helped lead the way with 20 total points, winning both the mile (4:40.05) and the 3000m (9:21.19) to earn the C-USA Female High Point Scorer and Freshman of the Meet Honors. Rice head coach Jim Bevan was also recognized afterwards as the Coach of the Year, his third C-USA Indoor Coach of the Year award.
Also earning an individual title was senior Michelle Fokam, who won her eighth career C-USA title with a victory in the triple jump. The senior broke her own school record with a distance of 13.32m (43-08.50) to backup her second place finish in the long jump (6.19m). Sprinter Hannah Jackson also had a superb Sunday by winning the 200m (23.57) and finishing third in the 60m (season-best 7.52). The victory was Jackson's fourth at the C-USA Championship level.
The Owls also received all-conference performances in the field by KC Nwadei, who placed second in the high jump (1.76m), and Erna Gunnarsdottir who also finished second (15.69m) in the shot put.
Other Owls who earned critical points were Khayla Patel in the 3000m (4th-9:49.80), Kylie Swiekatowski in the pole vault (5th-3.86m) and Zinedine Russell in the high jump (7th-1.65m).
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The Owls amassed 110 points as a team to hold off second place Middle Tennessee (103 points).
Rice freshman distance runner Grace Forbes helped lead the way with 20 total points, winning both the mile (4:40.05) and the 3000m (9:21.19) to earn the C-USA Female High Point Scorer and Freshman of the Meet Honors. Rice head coach Jim Bevan was also recognized afterwards as the Coach of the Year, his third C-USA Indoor Coach of the Year award.
Also earning an individual title was senior Michelle Fokam, who won her eighth career C-USA title with a victory in the triple jump. The senior broke her own school record with a distance of 13.32m (43-08.50) to backup her second place finish in the long jump (6.19m). Sprinter Hannah Jackson also had a superb Sunday by winning the 200m (23.57) and finishing third in the 60m (season-best 7.52). The victory was Jackson's fourth at the C-USA Championship level.
The Owls also received all-conference performances in the field by KC Nwadei, who placed second in the high jump (1.76m), and Erna Gunnarsdottir who also finished second (15.69m) in the shot put.
Other Owls who earned critical points were Khayla Patel in the 3000m (4th-9:49.80), Kylie Swiekatowski in the pole vault (5th-3.86m) and Zinedine Russell in the high jump (7th-1.65m).
-RiceOwls.com-
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