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Rotich Leads Iowa State on Final Day of Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships
05.13.2006 | Track and Field, Track & Field (W)
May 14, 2006
Complete Results
WACO, Texas--Iowa State senior David Rotich took second in the 1,500-meter run with a new career record time of 3:42.03 on the final day of competition at the 2006 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Waco, Texas.
"It was a good race, but I just couldn't kick at the end," Rotich said. "I don't know what was wrong with me. I was running well until the last 300 meters and then I just didn't have it anymore. I tried to go with him (Pifer) when he started moving. I just didn't have it. I'm happy I ran what I could, but I thought I could win. It just didn't happen."
Rotich, who came into the finals with the fifth best time in the field, finished behind Stephen Pifer of Colorado who took the title with a time of 3:40.70, a new Big 12 outdoor record.
Sara Boisen, a West Des Moines, Iowa native, finished third in the 400-meter hurdles. Boisen, who finished seventh in the race at the 2005 Big 12 outdoor championships, crossed the line with a time of 59.58, her second-best time of the season.
"Sara (Boisen) was fantastic and she was a hero tonight," said sprints and hurdles coach Scott Roberts. "She ran well from the first hurdle and she closed incredibly well down the stretch. I'm thrilled for her and she's come so far in the last few years. She has a year to go and the sky's the limit.
In the preliminaries on Saturday, Boisen knocked the seventh hurdle, causing her to stumble. Boisen was able to recover from the hit and finish the race with the fifth fastest time of the night. Boisen said she tried not to let the stumble bother her coming into the finals. "It felt awesome out there tonight," Boisen said. "Words just can't describe it. I kind of left it in God's hands and things happened just right. I'm in disbelief right now. It was a pretty good stumble last night, but I was determined not to let it get me down. It didn't hold me back in my race; I just had to let it go."
Senior Tony Douglas finished fourth in the triple jump with his best jump of the season, 49-6 ¼. Douglas, who finished fourth in the long jump Saturday, qualified regionally with his triple jump leap today.
Leigh Wagner brought in a fifth-place finish for the women's team in the high jump. Wagner finished with a leap of 5-7, tying her best of the season and improving from her seventh place finish one-year ago at the 2005 Big 12 outdoor championships. Fellow high jumper Erica Lynn also placed in the event with a jump of 5-7. Lynn, the second-place finisher in the heptathlon, tied for eighth place.
Three-time All-American Ada Anderson finished eighth in a loaded 800-meter run. Anderson, who was up against the Big 12 indoor champion, Althea Chambers of Texas Tech, crossed the line with a time of 2:10.81. Chambers went on to claim the title with a time of 2:06.74.
"Ada ran a relaxed race in prelims," Roberts said. "It wasn't as strong of a finish as we would've liked, but we have a few weeks to work it out. I think we'll be a lot better at the regional meet. I'm very proud of her and she's been a champion throughout the year and I'm really excited for regionals in a couple of weeks."
The cyclones had two competitors in the javelin throw. Neil Hines, who took fourth place in the decathlon on Saturday, competed for the men and Nicole Teitsworth, a regional qualifier in the javelin, competed for the women. Both took eighth place, Hines with a throw of 187 and Teitsworth with a throw of 142-11. Teitsworth's distance is a new career record for her.
"Nicole (Teitsworth) is an amazing story," said women's head coach Dick Lee. "She picked up the javelin last season and improved from being a 115 foot thrower to throwing 130 to 140 feet consistently. It just shows that hard work pays off. There are some events that are tougher to score in than others, but that's just the way track and field is and she has worked very hard over the past two years."
At the end of the final day of competition at the outdoor championships, the men's team finished in 11th place with 30 points and the women's team finished in 12th place with 20.5 points. Texas swept the team titles with the men scoring 135 points and the women finishing with 131 points.
"We didn't have a very good day today," said men's head coach Steve Lynn. "Tony (Douglas) did a great job right off the bat with the triple jump. David (Rotich) had a great time in the 1,500 and I can't say enough about Neil (Hines). He came in today and had to throw the javelin in the rain and he still placed. I think we can finish top 25 in the NCAA meet. The next Big 12 meet is at our place, we are going to score a lot of points and really battle, a lot of young guys learned a lot from this meet."
"We had some good things happen and then stubbed our toes in different places," Lee said. "The fact that we left half our point scorers in Ames is going to limit what we can do here. I was overall pleased with the efforts our girls put in this weekend."
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