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2001 Wyoming Track And Field Informational Release
Prior to the 2001 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
May 21, 2001 LARAMIE, Wyo. - Next Up For Wyoming: The Cowboys and Cowgirls will now wait to see which Wyoming athletes will be competing at the NCAA Championships on May 29-June 2. Senior Jason Gervais has automatically qualified in the discus while five other Wyoming athletes have provisionally qualified in thier individual events. The qualifiers will be officially announced on either Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
Cowgirls 4th, Cowboys 5th at MWC Championships: Wyoming had four individual champions at the Mountain West Conference Championships this past weekend. On Friday senior Jason Gervais won the discus and freshman Andrea Batt won the javelin. On Saturday senior Jason Hammond won the hammer and sophomore Seth Billy won the 400-meter hurdles title. Gervais won the discus with a throw of 196-2 on his final attempt. His winning mark was nearly ten feet further than that of the second-place finisher. Batt set a new conference and school record with a throw of 168-8 in the javelin. Hammond won the hammer with a throw of 214-2. Wyoming finished 1-2-3 in the hammer with Derek Woodske second and Gervais third. Billy turned in a time of 51.31 in the 400-meter hurdles, which was a season-best time. As a team the women finished in fourth-place with 70 points. The men finished fifth with 90 points. The Cowboys were just one point out of fourth-place behind New Mexico, which had 91 points. In the end Wyoming finished with 13 All-Conference performers. BYU won team titles on both the men's and women's sides.
Cowgirl Team/Swaby Awarded Academic Honors: The United States Track Coaches Association (USTCA) has awarded the University of Wyoming women's indoor track team and UW long jumper Mervin Swaby with USTCA All-Academic Honors for their accomplishments in the classroom as student-athletes. The Cowgirls were awarded All-Academic Team honors by meeting the criteria which required the team to have a cumulative grade point average of 3.10 (on a 4.0 scale) with a minimum of 14 athletes on the team. The 25 member Cowgirl squad had a cumulative team GPA of 3.173. Wyoming junior long jumper Mervin Swaby was awarded individual All-Academic Team honors for not only excelling in the classroom but by also succeeding on the track. In order to earn this award from the USTCA, Swaby had to both have a cumulative GPA of 3.25 (on a 4.0 scale) and compete at the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Swaby, an accounting major with a 3.278 GPA, competed at the 2001 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the long jump where he finished 15th.
Senior Gervais Automatically Qualifies for NCAA's: Senior Jason Gervais automatically qualified for the 2001 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the discus after a qualifying toss of 198-3 at the Pomona-Pitzer Invite on April 20. He improved upon his season best throw the next day with a toss of 201-9 at the Mt. Sac Relays. Gervais competed in the discus at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Five UW Athletes Provisionally Qualified for Nationals:
Five Wyoming athletes have provisionally qualified for the 2001 NCAA
Championships. Those athletes are freshman Andrea Batt (javelin),
senior Joe Hall (10,000-meter run), senior Jason Hammond (hammer),
junior Julie Thomas (hammer) and senior Derek Woodske (hammer).
Qualifiers will be announced on either Wednesday or Thursday.
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