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LAWRENCE, Kan. ? UTSA’s shuttle hurdle relay team of seniors Lyndsey Sidney and Ryanne Dupree, junior Ashley Allen and freshman Jessica Jones won the 4x100-meter shuttle hurdle relay with a school record-setting performance to highlight a strong showing for the Roadrunners on Friday at the Kansas Relays.
Dupree, Allen, Jones and Sidney clocked a 56.91 for top honors ahead of Illinois (57.69) and Nebraska (58.80). That time bettered the previous school standard of 57.20 set in a runner-up performance at the 2006 Drake Relays. The relay squad ran against themselves alone in the second section, but still managed to post the fastest time of the day.
"You have to keep the focus,” Sidney said on running alone. “You have to pretend that there is a team beside you the whole way and keep going after something.
"We go after (the school record) every year. We broke it last year and just broke our own school record again. It’s even better having a freshman (Jones) knowing that she can step it up and run like a senior."
The 4x200m relay team of Dupree, junior Brittany Epps and sophomores Shanelle Slaughter and Ashley Jackson finished second with a 1:37.16 clocking, just behind perennial junior college powerhouse Barton County’s 1:36.56.
The 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams both advanced to Saturday’s finals. The 4x100m quartet of Slaughter, Epps, Dupree and Jackson clocked a 46.07 for third in their preliminary heat, the sixth-fastest time of the afternoon. The 4x4 foursome of senior Diane Smith, Jackson, Jones and Epps won their heat in 3:48.11, the fourth-best clocking of the day.
Dupree had a busy afternoon as the three-time All-American also cleared a season-best 5-7 to take fifth in the high jump.
Sidney also clocked a season-best 1:01.60 to finish fourth in her preliminary heat of the 400m hurdles, but did not advance to the finals.
In late Thursday night action, sophomore Brittney Britton posted a career-best 2:16.80 to finish ninth in the unseeded section of the 800m.
