Ohio State Track and Field Ends Competition at NCAA Outdoor Championships – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/12/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
June 12, 2005
Results
Columbus, Ohio – The final day of the 2005 NCAA Outdoor track and field championships took place Saturday at Sacramento State’s Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif. The Ohio State women’s team posted a 55th-place finish with four team points after senior Rosalind Goodwin turned in a school-record leap in the triple jump to place fifth and land her fourth All-America honor of her career. For the men, Marios Iacovou tied for seventh in the triple jump to score 1.5 team points and help OSU to a 66th-place finish in the team standings. Arkansas won the women’s team championship with 60 points, while Texas came away with the men’s national trophy with 55 team points.
Goodwin, a senior from Louisville, Ky., ended her Buckeye career as a four-time All-American combined between indoor and outdoor nation meets with a fifth-place triple-jump performance that cleared 44 feet, 3 1/2 inches, breaking her own Ohio State record in the event. The six-time Big Ten champion breached her school record for the second time in the last two meets. On May 29, she surpassed her 2004 personal-best of 43-7 3/4 with a leap of 43-10 1/2 to place first in the Mideast regional. The All-America honor is Goodwin’s second in the outdoor season. Sshe is the first Buckeye to take multiple outdoor All-America accolades in the triple since Shandi Boyd-Pleasant scored three All-America honors in the triple jump in 1994, 1995 and 1997.
The Buckeyes had two jumpers in the high jump Saturday, with one competitor in each of the men’s and women’s championships. Iacovou tied the No. 2 all-time jump at OSU when he cleared 7-2 1/2 to tie for seventh place. The freshman from Nicosia, Cyprus became the first Ohio State men’s high jumper to earn All-American status since Otis Winston in 1993. He tied former Buckeye Mark Cannon for second on the all-time OSU performance list. Cannon cleared 7-2 1/2 in 1993. Winston holds the all-time mark at 7-4 ½, set in 1995.
Fellow high jumper Jessie Stringer represented the Buckeyes in the women’s high jump, but failed to reach a height and did not place.
Complete results of the 2005 NCAA Outdoor Championships are available to download at www.ncaapsorts.com.
