By Chiann Nobrega
The SOJC Track Bureau published 10 stories, six of them for professional news organizations, on Day Two of the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Here’s an overview of events on Thursday, the first day of women’s competition.
The University of South Dakota is a strong pole vaulting school, and that’s reflected in our coverage. Helen Falda earned second-team All-America honors in the women’s event on Thursday, and Chris Nilsen was the men’s champion on Wednesday. We covered them both for The Press and Dakotan in Yankton, S.D. Shawn Medow wrote about Falda, and Alex Castle did a follow-up story on Nilsen.
Jenny Sanchez covered the long jump for WyoSports, where she wrote about Wyoming junior Ja’la Henderson and her quest to become the first female Wyoming jumper to earn All-America honors in decades.
Nate Mann worked for the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., covering Gabrielle Thomas of Harvard, who was the top qualifier in the 200.
Working for 406 Montana Sports, Brenten Kelly wrote about four Montana natives: Makena Morley, Christina Aragon, Sadi Henderson and Amanda Jaynes. Kelly also wrote for the track website DyeStat, covering Ole Miss senior Janeah Stewart, who won the women’s hammer throw.
We also wrote for our website:
Mark Wang covered the women’s 10,000 meters, where Kansas Junior Sharon Lokedi won her first NCAA championship and broke a 30-year-old NCAA meet record.
Standford’s Mackenzie Little not only won the women’s javelin event, but also set a personal record. Allan Johnstone had the story.
Bryce Dole covered the exciting moment when three-time NCAA triple jump champion and American record holder Keturah Orji of Georgia finally grasped the top spot in the women’s long jump.
Edward Burnette covered one of the NCAA’s premier throwers, Arizona State’s Maggie Ewen, who won the shot put.
And we went international, too. On Wednesday, Melissa Ingabire covered Anderson Peters, a freshman at Mississippi State, who made his NCAA debut and won the men’s javelin after breaking a meet record. He’s from Grenada, and her story was picked up by GrenadaSports, an international sports website located in the country.
