Four Roadrunners head to Sacramento for NCAA Outdoor Championships

June 6, 2005
Contact: Kyle Stephens (210) 458-4907

Four Roadrunners head to Sacramento for NCAA Outdoor Championships

SAN ANTONIO - Seniors Rosalind Holmes and Curtis Johnson and juniors Ryanne Dupree and T.R. Sissel will represent the UTSA track and field teams in six different events at the NCAA Outdoor Championships hosted by Sacramento State on Wednesday-Saturday, June 8-11. The four-day event at A.G. Spanos Sports Complex gets underway on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Central time and continues through Saturday night with the last event scheduled for approximately 10:45 p.m. This marks the second time in the past three years Sacramento has hosted the NCAA Outdoor and the California Capitol City will serve as the host site for the next two years, as well.

NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Wednesday-Saturday, June 8-11
A.G. Spanos Sports Complex
Sacramento State University • Sacramento, Calif.

Meet Information/Results: NCAASports.com or HornetSports.com

NCAA Championships Roster

National Rankings:
Here is a breakdown of where the Roadrunners rank on the latest start lists for the NCAA Outdoor Championships:

2004 NCAA Outdoor Rewind:
Ryanne Dupree picked up her first All-America certificate with a seventh-place finish in the heptathlon at the 2004 NCAA Outdoor Championships held at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas. Dupree scored 5,316 points in becoming UTSA’s first female All-American since Rhonda Ray also finished seventh in the heptathlon in 2002. On the men’s side, Justin Youngblood capped his outstanding career with his third All-America honor after placing seventh in the decathlon. He scored 7,588 points for his second outdoor award and third overall counting his seventh-place showing in the heptathlon at the 2004 NCAA Indoor Championships in March. Carl Johnson posted the fastest fully-automatic timed mark in the 110m hurdles, a 13.83 in the preliminaries to finish 17th overall.

UTSA’s NCAA Outdoor History:
Eleven Roadrunners have combined to garner 17 All-America certificates dating back to Starlite Williams’ eighth-place finish in the women’s triple jump in 1985. Justin Youngblood and Leonard Byrd are the only two All-Americans on the men’s side with five honors combined, while the women have had 10 All-Americans grab 12 honors. In 2004, Ryanne Dupree and Youngblood both gained All-America status in the heptathlon and decathlon, respectively, helping put UTSA on the national map as a player in the multi-events with four nods in the past four years. The men’s highest national finish came in 1996 when Byrd took fourth in the 400m to score six points and put the Roadrunners in a tie for 45th. Byrd also finished seventh in the quarter in both 1995 (T-65) and 1997 (T-66). Youngblood had seventh-place showings in the decathlon in 2002 (T-59) and 2004 (T-60). The women’s best outdoor placing was a tie for 21st (11 points) in 1989.