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? NCAA Championships official Web site
NCAA Outdoor Championships
Wednesday-Saturday, June 6-9
Hornet Stadium ? Sacramento, Calif.
Starting Blocks: Senior All-American Ryanne Dupree will represent the UTSA women’s track & field team at the NCAA Outdoor Championships hosted by Sacramento State on Wednesday-Saturday, June 6-9, at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif. Dupree will compete in the 100-meter hurdles and heptathlon in her third NCAA Outdoor appearance and sixth overall NCAA Championships meet.
Following Dupree: Dupree opens competition on Wednesday with the first round of the 100m hurdles at 7:40 p.m. (CT). The semifinal round follows at 9:25 p.m. Wednesday with the final at 7:45 p.m. Friday. The East Central High School product looks for her third All-America certificate in the heptathlon beginning with the first event, the 100m hurdles, at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. The high jump, shot put and 200m follow on Thursday, while the long jump, javelin and 800m kick off at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Start lists and live results can be found online here.
Dupree’s NCAA Outdoor Schedule
Wednesday, June 6
7:40 p.m. - 100m hurdles (first round)
9:25 p.m. - 100m hurdles (semifinal round)
Thursday, June 7
12:30 p.m. - 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m (heptathlon)
Friday, June 8
1:30 p.m. - long jump, javelin, 800m (heptathlon)
7:45 p.m. - 100m hurdles (final)
* all times Central
Dupree Ranks High Nationally: One of the nation’s top multi-eventers for the past few seasons, Dupree enters the NCAA Outdoor ranked third in the field of 27 heptathletes. She shattered her own school record by 234 points, scoring an automatic-qualifying 5,818 to finish second behind top entrant Diana Pickler of Washington State (6,204) at the Texas Relays in early April. She also ranks slightly behind Jillian Drouin of Syracuse (5,890), but ahead of a strong group of 13 competitors above the 5,000-point plateau, including defending champion Jacquelyn Johnson of Arizona State. Dupree also broke a seven-year-old school record in the 100m hurdles this season with a 13.25 winning time at the Kansas Relays in late April. She improved that to a 13.24 in finishing second at the NCAA Midwest Regional on May 26 in Des Moines, Iowa. That mark ranks her 17th in the field of 28 hurdlers.
No Stranger To This Stage: A three-time All-American, Dupree is no stranger to the national stage as she is making her third NCAA Outdoor and sixth overall NCAA Championships meet appearance. She finished seventh in the heptathlon in 2004 in Austin and eighth in 2005 in Sacramento, along with a fourth-place showing in the pentathlon at the 2006 NCAA Indoor. A veteran of the USA Outdoor Championships throughout her career, she finished 10th in the 2005 heptathlon behind a plethora of professional athletes. Dupree has enjoyed a taste of the international stage, as well, competing in the USA-Russia Heptathlon Challenge in The Netherlands each of the last two summers.
SLC Supremacy: Dupree capped off one of the best careers by a female student-athlete in Southland Conference (SLC) history with a dominating performance at the SLC Outdoor last month. She won the heptathlon for the second time with a meet-record 5,593 points, captured top honors in the 100m hurdles for the third time, leaped to gold in the long jump, cleared a personal-best 5-8 3/4 for second place in the high jump and ran the second leg on the third-place 4x100m relay team. Her 39.5 points made her the High Point Scorer and she later was named SLC Outdoor Athlete of the Year and Outstanding Track Performer. All totaled, Dupree earned SLC Athlete of the Year and High Point Scorer honors three times each, was named Outstanding Track Performer twice, collected 10 individual or relay conference crowns, scored a combined 181 1/2 points at eight SLC Championships and set two conference meet records. Dupree also was named SLC Athlete of the Week five times in 2007, giving her 12 weekly accolades for her career.
