St. Augustine's Women take National Indoor Track and Field Title
Men's Team finishes fifth

March 13, 2005

It was a day of passionate competition, broken records and boundless emotions shared between athletes and spectators alike. Four hundred athletes, competing in front of twice as many onlookers, poured on the intensity in the final day of the 2005 NCAA Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship as the season-ending event came to an electrifying and fashionably late finish.

After the female sprinters tested their speed in the individual dashes earlier in the day, it came down to the 4x400 to decide the team championship's winner. Entering the competition on the women's side, four teams vying for the highest point count were separated by just a five point spread.

The women from St. Augustine's led the pack with 45 points. The clear leader after day one, Abilene Christian, entered the final race with 42.50 points. Adams State trailed the leader by just three points and University of Nebraska Omaha held a tally of 40 total points.

The Lincoln women captured the 4x400 in a time of 3:41.86, while the St. Augustine's ladies finished next to clinch this year's title.

The men's team finished fifth in the title hunt. A pair of St. Augustine's runners cleaned up for second and third place finishes in the 400m dash. Junior Jamaal Torrance finished in 47.50 and senior Adrian Findlay came in behind him with a time of 47.82.