Three Eagles Headed To NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships

March 10, 2005

     Three North Carolina Central University sophomores - Rashaad Lee, Dorian Turner and Hakeem Mohammed - will be competing in the 2005 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, March 11-12.
     Lee, a native of Willingboro, New Jersey, and member of the 2004 CIAA Cross Country championship team, will be making his first trip to a national championship event after qualifying 13th in the 800-meter run with a season-best time of 1:52.86. "With this being his first experience at a national meet, I am not sure what to expect (out of Lee)," said NCCU head track & field/cross country coach Michael Lawson. "If he can keep from getting nervous, I think he will come out as an All-American."
     Turner, a native of Irmo, South Carolina, who earned All-America honors last year as a member of the 4x400m relay team during the outdoor season, has qualified 11th for this year's indoor event in the 200m dash with a time of 21.66. Turner claimed All-CIAA honors in the 200m dash with a second place finish at the conference championship meet. "It's amazing that Dorian has qualified in the 200m dash, because he is a high jumper that has just started training in this event," Lawson said.
     Mohammed, a native of Winston-Salem, NC, who was also a member of NCCU's 4x400m relay team that captured All-America honors last year during the outdoor season, qualified 14th in the 400m dash with a time of 48.50. Mohammed, the reigning CIAA 100m dash champion, participated in the outdoor 100m and 200m dashes at the NCAA championships last spring, but did not advance to the finals. He is still recovering from a hamstring injury he suffered earlier this season. "Mentally he is there," Lawson said about Mohammed, "but we do not know how he will hold up physically."

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