Track ends season with seven All-Americans

Story by Jim Joyner, Sports Editor

Seven BU track and field athletes earned All American honors as they ended their season in Gulf Shores, Ala., at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships May 22-24.

Here are the meet highlights:

• The women’s 4x100m relay team of sophomore Billi Pipes, freshman Kiana Turner, sophomore Lauren Allen-Brown, and junior Diamond Griffith placed sixth in the final heat with a time of 47.27. This team of four earned NAIA All-America honors.

• Senior Katie Thurbon became a three-time All-American with her pole vault mark of 3.55 meters, finishing tied for seventh place.

• Senior Stephanie Nelson also became a three-time All-American with her javelin throw of 41.49 meters, good for fifth place overall.

• Junior Tyler Sloan finished fourth in the women’s 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.98. Sloan also earned NAIA All-American honors.

• Senior Katelyn Wolken earned her All-American title in the women’s javelin with a throw of 40.63 meters.

• Senior Megan Rosa finished 21st in the women’s marathon race with a time of 3:29.38.

• Freshmen pole-vaulters Matt Bush and Ben Carpenter competed in the men’s pole vault finals. Carpenter finished with a best vault of 4.57 meters, one spot behind the All-American standings, at ninth place. Bush was not able to land a jump in the finals.

•Senior Cody Viergever placed 16th in the men’s javelin with a throw of 53.96 meters.