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May 29, 2005
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Davis and Landau Earn Bids to NCAA Championships: Freshman Sarah Landau and sophomore Lashonda Davis earned bids to the NCAA Championships last weekend at the NCAA Mideast Regional, hosted by Indiana University. Landau won the pole vault, breaking Miami's record once again as well as the Mideast Region record at 13-7 3/4. Davis qualified on an at-large bid, entering the meet with the 13th-best jump in the nation. Nine of the 12 ahead of her on that list earned automatic bids, leaving one of the six to eight bids for Davis.
Davis Highlights: The NCAA bid is just the latest in a series of highlights for sophomore Lashonda Davis this season. She won the long jump in five of the nine meets she entered, earning the silver medal at the MAC meet while breaking her own Miami record at 20-10 1/2. She won one MAC Track and Field Athlete of the Week during the outdoor season, on Mar. 29 after she passed the NCAA long jump qualifying mark for the first of five times this year. Also an accomplished sprinter, Davis won the MAC 100 meter race, following up a gold medal indoors in the 60 meters earlier this year.
Landau Highlights: Miami's freshman pole vaulter has broken the school's pole vault mark four times this outdoor season. Held by senior Tabitha Schwartz at 12-3 entering the season, Sarah Landau raised it to 12-5 1/2, meeting the NCAA qualifying mark, at the South Florida meet in early April. She moved it to 12-7 at the Bobcat Invitational at the end of April and bettered it the next weekend to 13-3 1/2 at the Billy Hayes Invitational on the same track as the NCAA Regional meet three weeks later, where she raised the mark to its current 13-7 3/4. In between, Landau won the bronze at the MAC meet with a 13-1 jump.
Meet Particulars: Lashonda Davis makes her qualifying leap in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday evening, June 8, as the long jump preliminaries begin at 7:15 p.m. Pacific Time. Sarah Landau's preliminary pole vault event begins at 7 p.m. PT the following day, June 9, with Davis' long jump final the same night at 9 p.m. PT. Landau's pole vault final is at 6 p.m. PT on Saturday, June 11.
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