Arkansas
Arkansas’ Wilson wins 400 hurdles title
Britton Wilson capped her first season on the College of Arkansas as a nationwide champion.
Wilson, a sophomore who transferred to Arkansas this yr from Tennessee, received the 400-meter hurdles on Saturday evening on the NCAA Outside Observe and Area Championships at Hayward Area in Eugene, Ore.
Wilson received in 53.86 seconds with Florida sophomore Anna Corridor taking second in 54.76.
Arkansas completed sixth within the remaining ladies’s crew standings with 38 factors.
Florida received the ladies’s crew championship with 74 factors after profitable the boys’s title Friday evening with 58 factors.
Texas was second in ladies’s standings with 64 factors, whereas Kentucky was third with 50 factors. LSU and Texas A&M tied for fourth with 39 factors.
Wilson additionally anchored the Razorbacks’ 1,600 relay crew — which additionally included senior Morgan Burks-Magee, freshman Rosey Effiong and senior Jada Baylark — to a third-place end in 3:26.69.
Wilson ran 49.55 on her leg with Burks-Magee working 52.3, Effiong 50.4 and Baylark 51.44.
Wilson, who did not qualify for the NCAA meet at Tennessee final yr, blossomed this yr working with Arkansas assistant coach Chris Johnson. She received the SEC 400 hurdles title final month, working a UA faculty document 53.75 that’s the prime collegiate time this season.
At Tennessee, Wilson didn’t enhance on her instances from Mills Godwin Excessive College in Virginia.
The 5-5 Wilson grew to become the primary athlete within the 41 years of the ladies’s SEC Outside Championships to win the 400 meters and 400 hurdles. She received the 400 in an Arkansas faculty document 50.05.
Arkansas senior Krissy Gear took fourth within the 1,500 Saturday evening in a season-best 4:10.06.
The Razorbacks had two scorers within the 5,000 with junior Lauren Gregory ending fifth in 15:28.33 and sophomore Isabel Van Camp taking eighth in 15:36.
Effiong took seventh within the 400 in 51.55.
Senior Logan Jolly took seventh within the 3,000-meter steeplechase and broke her personal Arkansas faculty document by working 9:34.76. She ran 9:38.13 in Thursday evening’s semifinals to interrupt Gear’s document of 9:38.62 final yr.
Safiya John, a junior on the College of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, completed tenth within the heptathlon with 5,626 factors. Her marks Saturday had been 19 toes, 7 inches within the lengthy soar, 106-3 within the javelin and a couple of:24.55 within the 800.