Wilson’s Dennisha Page advanced to the NCAA Championships in Eugene next month in both her events at the East Region Preliminary this weekend in Lexington, Ky.
Page, a senior at Tennessee, ran 11.19 in the 100 and 22.53 in the 200. Among qualifiers for Eugene, she’s 23rd in the 100 and 11th in the 200, but those figures are a little deceiving because Page was racing to advance, not for the fastest time.
Overall, she’s 10th in NCAA Division 1 in the 100 at 11.10 and 6th in the 200 at 22.39, both from the SEC Championships earlier this month in Gainesville. She’s the 19th-ranked American woman in the 100 and 11th in the 200.
The NCAA Championships are scheduled for June 5-8 at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. Page will race in the 100 semis at 7 p.m. June 6 and the 200 semis at 7:44 p.m. The finals follow that Saturday afternoon.
Unfortunately, Tennessee’s 400-meter relay team, ranked 4th in the world and 1st in the NCAA at 42.52, was disqualified in Saturday’s championship quarterfinal round for a baton pass out of the zone.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 