NCHSAA Track and Field Championships again this weekend
May 20, 2009 North Carolina
GREENSBORO -- Top athletes from across the state of North Carolina will compete in a busy weekend of track as the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has its second consecutive weekend of state track and field championships.
The weekend of competition will feature 2-A championships for both men and women on Friday, and then on Saturday the 4-A championships will be held, all at the Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University.
The 1-A and 3-A meets were held last weekend.
Action in the field events will begin at 11 am and running events will start at noon on Friday, while Saturday¹s schedule opens with field events at 10 am and running events at 11 am. It will be the 89th annual men¹s championships and the 38th annual renewal of the women¹s event.
In the 4-A men¹s competition, New Bern will be seeking its fourth consecutive state team title and won its regional event last weekend.
Other regional champs included Southeast Raleigh, Winston-Salem Mount Tabor
and East Burke.
Fayetteville E.E. Smith athlete Ben Major won all four events he participated in during last weekend¹s regional and East Burke junior Tanner Anderson soared to an amazing height of seven feet, two and one-half inches in the high jump in the West Regional.
Southeast Raleigh, Durham Jordan, Mount Tabor and Charlotte Myers Park won the 4-A women¹s regional competitions. Matthews David Butler is the defending state 4-A women¹s champ.
Among 2-A men¹s programs, Shelby, East Lincoln, Cardinal Gibbons and North Brunswick captured regional titles so Shelby will certainly be a contender to defend its state championship. West Henderson won its sixth consecutive West Regional title and joins Salisbury, Burlington Cummings and Swansboro as regional titlists. Cummings, a perennial track power, is the defending 2-A women¹s champ.
The Greensboro Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Greensboro Sports Commission are serving as the host city sponsors for the event.
NCHSAA FastFacts
Event: NCHSAA Track and Field Championships, 2-A and 4-A classifications
Date: May 22-23, 2009, with 2-A men and women on May 22 and 3-A men and
women on May 23
Site: Irwin Belk Track, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro
First Held: 1913 for men, 1972 for women
Qualifiers: The top four finishers in each event, including relays,
qualified from the regional level to the state championship meet
Defending champions: women: 2-A, Burlington Cummings; 4-A, Matthews David
Butler; men: 2-A. Shelby; 4-A, New Bern.
Of Interest: Nine classification records were broken last Friday in the
NCHSAA state 1-A championships.
Host City Sponsors: Greensboro Sports Commission, Greensboro Convention and
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