Postenea Louisjeune has pushed the Allen County Community College women’s high jump mark higher in her second competition of the 2010 outdoor season. The ACCC sophomore from Wachula, Fla., finished second at the Ole Miss Invitational, Oxford, Miss., last Saturday by clearing the high jump bar at 5 feet, 8 inches.
Louisjeune, who had the previous school mark of 5’7” set at the 2009 NJCAA National Outdoor Championships taking third, is also the defending Jayhawk Eastern Division and Region VI high jump champion. She has the second best high jump — outdoor or indoor — reported this season in the NJCAA.
Allen County track athletes have competed in the Mississippi track meet April 10 and at the Emporia State Relays April 3. At Emporia, Allen County had athletes hit NJCAA national meet qualifying times in three men’s events — the 100, 200 and 4×100 relay — and two women’s events — high jump and triple jump.
The Red Devils are competing this weekend at the 2010 KU Relays in Lawrence.
Allen County’s men lowed their 4×100-meter relay mark both times out this season. Sophomores DeAndre Simmons and Isiah Young ran on the ACCC relay team that ran 40.96 seconds for sixth place at the 2009 national meet.
Simmons and Young combined with freshmen Trent Huling and Kyran Stewart to post a 40.32-second timing at Ole Miss for third place.
That is the new ACCC 4×100 record, breaking the mark of 40.64 seconds run by Young, Huling, Stewart and Bryant Terry at Emporia the previous week. The Red Devils were first at the Emporia Relays. The Ole Miss time moved ACCC into fifth place nationally.
In Oxford, Miss., sophomore Angelica Larrier, who owns the ACCC women’s 100 and 200-meter records, ran 19th in the 100 meters in 12.32 seconds and freshman Amanda Smith was 39th in 12.85. Larrier ran the 200 meters in 25.64 seconds and Smith posted a time of 26.11 seconds.
Sophomore Keythra Richards, who has the ACCC records in long jump and triple jump, placed 13th in the Ole Miss long jump at 18’31⁄4” with Louisjeune in 28th at 16’101⁄2”.
Richards, Louisjeune, Larrier and Smith combined to set a new ACCC women’s 4×400-meter relay record. They ran the race in 4 minutes, 4.97 seconds for 15th place at Ole Miss. The old record was 4:19.70 set by Lynch, Leonard, Mathey and Hawkins in 1991.
For the ACCC men at Ole Miss, Young took fourth in the 100-meter dash in 10.57 seconds with Stewart in seventh at 10.71 and D. Simmons in eighth at 10.72. Selwyn Tatum ran unattached and went 10.85 for 13th.
Tatum, again unattached, was 11th in the 200-meter dash in 21.46 as Young placed 14th in 21.48 and D. Simmons was 19th in 21.60. Stewart ran the race in 21.70 seconds and Huling went 22.24.
Huling posted a 12th-place finish time of 29.17 seconds in the 400-meter dash. Kyrese Banks ran the race in 49.56 for 19th and Abraham Walker was 26th in 50.31 seconds. Brandon Forbes placed 35th in the 800-meter run in 2:00.57.
Justin Boyd took eighth in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.29 seconds.
The relay team of Huling, Young, Stewart and D. Simmons finished 10th in the 4×400-meter relay race in 3:21.50. Stewart ran with Terry, Forbes and Walker in another heat and posted a time of 3:23.09 for 11th place.
Marwin Simmons placed 10th in the long jump with a leap of 22’9” and was 11th in the triple jump at 43’41⁄2”. DeAndre Speed was 23rd in the shot put with a throw of 28’1” and Julian Christian took 28th in the discus at 92’2”.
QUALIFYING for nationals in going 1-2-3 in the 100-meter dash at Emporia were Stewart (10.33), Young (10.37) and D. Simmons (10.51). Stewart’s time is the top time reported in the NJCAA right now. Terry was eighth at ESU in 11.27 seconds.
The trio of Young, Stewart and D. Simmons were first, second and fourth in the 200-meter dash that first week out. All had national qualifying times. Young won it in 21.29 seconds, which is 10th in the NJCAA ranks, with Stewart in second at 21.41 and D. Simmons in 21.52.
Tatum ran unattached at Emporia and was fifth in the 200 in 21.62 seconds. Huling was ninth in 22.30 and Walker took 10th in 22.51.
Kyrese Banks had a personal-best time of 50.55 seconds to win the 400-meter dash. Walker was sixth in 51.84. Banks and Walker combined with Marwin Simmons and Terry to place first in the 4×400-meter relay race in 3:22.84.
Boyd was fourth in the 110-meter high hurdles in 15.29 seconds. Forbes placed ninth in the 800-meter run in 2:07.62.
Cameron Parker placed fifth in the long jump with a leap of 22’8” with M. Simmons in 11th at 21’51⁄4” and Jarrett Criddle in 22nd at 18’21⁄2”. M. Simmons claimed sixth in the triple jump with Criddle in seventh, with leaps of 46’2” and 46’0” respectively.
Speed was 13th in the shot put with a toss of 35’41⁄2”. Christian took 13th in the discus with a throw of 107’2”.
Larrier won the women’s 100-meter dash in 12.24 seconds and was second in the 200-meter dash in 25.77 seconds. Louisjeune tied for second with three other jumpers in the high jump at 5’33⁄4”.
Richards took fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 37’101⁄2”. Louisjeune placed third in the long jump at 18’3” just ahead of Richards in fourth at 17’93⁄4”. Akilah Threadgill took 16th in 13’101⁄2”.
Allen County has the University of Arkansas Twlight meet in Fayetteville, Ark., April 30 and the Region VI/Jayhawk Conference Champions in El Dorado on May 7-9.
The NJCAA national meet is May 20-22 in Hutchinson.
