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pcoREBOARDi Mcti’s tTock & fuU wm fifth straight CAA Championship
MEN’S & WOMEN’S Ten
at CAA Championships (Richmond, Va.)
Results: Men: James Madison 4, UNCW 3 (L)
Women: James Madison 4, UNCW 3 (L)
MEN’S Golf
Fii-Sun.Apf. 20-22
at CAA Championships (Williamsburg, Va.)
Results: 296-299-290=885 (Third out of six teams)
Women’s Golf
Mtm-Thu. Apr. 16-19
at Big South Championships (Blythwood, S.C.)
Results: 332-319-321 =972 (Third out of six teams)
Softball
Record: 20-29 (5-11 SoCon)
Thu.Apf.19
UNCW 2,7 EAST CAROLINA 0,12 (W,L)
Sat. Apr. 21
UNCW 6,2 EAST TENNESSEE STATE 5,3 (W,L)
Sun. Apr. 22
EAST TENNESSEE STATE 8, UNCW 4 (L)
Tue.Apr.24
Campt)ell4,13 UNCW 1,7 (L,L)
Wed. Apr. 25
CAMPBELL (DH) (Night)
Baseball
Record: 30-17 (10-7 CM)
Ffi.Apr.20
George Mason 6. UNCW 4 (L)
Sat, 21
UNCW 9, George Mason 2 (W)
Sun. Apr. 22
UNCW 8, George Mason 4 (W)
Tue.Apr24
UNCW11,UNC-ChapelHIII5 (W)
COASTAL CAROLINA (Night)
Track & Field
FrH.Sat.Apr2n-?1
at CAA Championships (Richmond, Va.)
Results: Men: CONFERENCE CHAMPS!
78 (First out of six teams)
Women: 109 (Fourth out of six teams)
Tschedules
Sal-Apr. 2Bat1 p rp,
9t College of Charleston (DH)
Sun. Apt. 29 at 1 pp,
at College of Charleston
Track & field
Apr. 26-28 All Day
at Penn Relays
Bold indicates home games
Erica Harbatkin
Staff Writer
Wilmington’s men’s track team to repeat as
conference champions, head coach Kevin
Ankrom replied, “A miracle.”
He got his miracle.
The UNCW men’s track team took first
at the Colonial Athletic Association cham
pionships Saturday, overpowering second
place William and Mary 178-150.
“Sometimes it happens,” Ankrom said af
ter the men took their fifth straight confer
ence championship. “On paper we didn’t
really have a chance to win. But that’s what
track’s about... That’s what team is about.”
After a third place finish in 2000, the
women’s team fell to fourth behind William
and Mary, George Mason and James Madi-
Because of the restructuring of the CAA,
American and Richmond competed in the
meet, but did not count in the scoring.
“Nobody thought we had a chance,” said
freshman Jason Dowdy, who qualified for
the ECAC/IC4A Championships in the long
jump.
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With five-straight tournament wins, UNCWs
program is creating a dynasty in the CAA.
Caldwell also qualified for IC4As in the shot
Dennis Caldwell has been and 200,
a vital asset to UNCW.
Joyner, Caldwell and Shane Gurganus
took the top three spots in the hammer throW,
and junior R.J. Russell placed second in the
javelin throw.
“Next year we’re definitely going to im
prove some more,” said assistant coach
f**d 21 -60 jacquie Grimes, who heads the throws team.
“We still have a very young team, so we’re
expecting big things next year.”
On the other end of the field, freshman
Patrick Bullock placed third in both the high
jump and the triple jump, sophomore Tim
Jones took fourth in the high jump and
sophomore Otis Wilson jumped an IC4A-
hurdles, triple jump, long jump and javelin.
The Seahawks picked up a bulk of their
points in the throwing events. Sophomores
Dennis Caldwell and Chad Joyner clinched
first and second, respectively, in the discus
throw. Caldwell’s 15.24-meter throw quali-
. fied him for IC4AS, while Joyner qualified
Xzavler Chisholm was a major factor ^ the hammer throw.
In the team’s drive for five.
qualified him for IC4As.
Junior Kris Jones also had a strong oi
ing, placing first and qualifying IC4As in the —
highjump, and also scoring points in the 110 qualifying 7.23-meters, good enough for
fourth in the long jump.
“We definitely put the ‘field’ in the ‘track
and field’, because that’s what it was,”
Ankrom said.
Sophomore Matthew Price won the pole
vault, qualifying for IC4As with a 4.80-meter
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A Seahawk in the Olympics? Chisholm hopes so
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Athletic Association titles and was named to i
All-CAA team six times in botfi indoor and out
door track combined.
In high school, Chisholm participated in both
baskeftall and track. But in eleventh grade he
The gloiy days of Back and field are over.
So, then, what drives a college track and field
athlete? What makes ttie daily runs, drills, sprints
“I was flunking to my self that if I was to try to
play (basketball) at flje next level it would be re
ally difficult at 5-foot-7,” Chisholm said.
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Chisholm, a junior, already holds the UNCW
school records in the outdoor 100-meter dash and
flKindoor200-melErdash. He has fliree Colonial
“Height really doesn’t mean anyfliing,” he said.
“It’s just a matter of how fast you can pick your
A native of Charlotte, Chisholm was recruited
in addition to UNCWby Appalachian State, High
Point, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina State,
East Carolina, Soufli Carolina, SL Augustine’s,
Western Carolina and UNC Charlotte.
‘The coach here seemed like he was really
interested,” Chisholm said. “He kept in touch and
was on top of everyttiing I was doing.”
After he accqjted a scholaidiip to UNCW, it
did not take Chisholm long to start winning. He
first broke the school record in die 100-meter dash
as a fteshman and earned All-East honoR wifli a
fifth place finish in flie Intercollegiate Associa
tion of Amateur Afliletes of America finals.
Chisholm placed seventh in flie IC4A finals as
a sojrfwmore, good enough to make All-East a
second time.
SEE Chisholm, Page 1 2