🏈 National Champion in Track and Field!!

[BAMANEWSBOT]

University of Alabama senior Diondre Batson won the 200-meter dash national title to highlight the Tide's first day at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M.

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[TheChief]

Diondre Batson in the 200 meters indoor!!! There's ten points.

http://www.rolltide.com/sports/c-xctrack/recaps/031514aaa.html

 

[TheChief]

Qualified for the 60 meter final too as well, I think. 6.54. School record and fastest time in the prelims.

 

[bamaraider]

So we won a national title?!?!?

 

[TheChief]

Batson did. The indoor national meet continues today. Lots of pre-lims and a few finals.

 

[TheChief]

Raider, it's like a national championship game that takes place over multiple days.

So we won a national title?!?!?

 

[bamaraider]

Raider, it's like a national championship game that takes place over multiple days.

Ah, have no idea how track works. Thanks.

 

[sean]

i think track works like a cumulative total where they add up all the scores over the entire event to declare the overall winner (sorta like gymnastics).

 

[TheChief]

Top eight individuals in each event score: 10, 8, 6, 5,4,3,2,1. If you are out of the top eight, zero points. Most points total wins.

 

[TheChief]

You see why getting athletes qualified for indoors helps you win a title. Then they have to be top eight. If you've only got one or two folks in the meet, a team title is out of the question. If you have 10 athletes and a relay or two, they've got a chance to win.

 

[TheChief]

Jeremiah Green 7th in the triple jump (2 pts).

 

[TheChief]

Batson was third in the 60m (6 points). Locke of FSU was 1/100 of a second off the NCAA record.

 

[TheChief]

Arkansas had a hurdler win the hurdles by 2/1000's of a second over a UF athlete.

 

[bamaraider]

Thanks for the updates Chief.

 

[TheChief]

Ramona Burchell won the 60 m national title yesterday as well!!!!! First Alabama woman to win a title indoor. Burchell hails from Jamaica.

 

[BamaFan334]

Excellent job! Very proud of our athletes and the achievement of the two individual titles so far. Hoping to hear some good news about today's results. Roll Tide.

 

[TheChief]

Men 6th overall. Women 19th.