GREENSBORO
-- The Aggies first home track and field meet of
the season, the International Friendship & Freedom Games, yielded some
great results. The United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches
Association recently released its week-by-week division I outdoor track and
field team rankings, and several North Carolina A&T track and field stars are
among the top performers in the country thanks to the IFFG.
The
highest ranked Aggie is senior Jarrell Elliott who sits at 12th in
the nation in the men's 400 meter dash. Elliott earned his place after an
impressive performance at this past weekend's IFFG , where finished second
overall with a time of 45.87. Elliott's time not only made the national
rankings, the Winston-Salem native also qualified for the Olympic trials and
set a new school record in the 400 meter dash.
Joining
Elliott on the NCAA Division I nationally ranked list is fellow sprinter
Torrance Womack who is ranked 45th in the 200 meter dash with a time
of 20.86. Like Elliott, Womack also earned this time at the IFFG, where he
finished third overall.
A
couple of Aggie relay teams also made the cut after their noteworthy
performances at the 2012 Pepsi Florida Relays. The men's 4x100 meter relay
team, consisting of Earl House, Darryl Williams, Elliott and Womack rank 25th
in the nation with a time of 40.13. Womack and Elliott appear on the list again
with House and Darius Bogertey for the Aggies in the men's 4x400 meter relay.
This relay team is ranked 28th nationally with a time of 3:08.71.
Jumper
Keenan Smith is the only freshman for the Aggies that is on this week's
nationally ranked list. The Richmond, Va., native is 35th in the
men's triple jump with a distance of 50-feet, 7 ½ inches earned at the IFFG.
These rankings come out less than 24 hours before the
Aggies travel to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays, where they will compete
amongst the best athletes in the world.