Villanova senior runs third career best of season in semifinal heats on Friday night
March 9, 2012
NAMPA, Idaho--Senior sprinter
Shericka Ward (Leesburg, Fla.) ran a personal best time in the 60 meter hurdles for the third time this season and advanced to the finals of the event at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday night. Ward finished fifth in her preliminary heat and is one of eight athletes that advanced to Saturday night's final.
The preliminaries on Friday at Jackson Indoor Track included two heats of eight sprinters each. The winner of each heat plus the next six fastest times moved on to the finals and Ward advanced on time with a career-best mark of 8.16 in the first of the two heats. Five of the eight qualifiers for the finals came from her heat.
Ward has now run a personal best time in the 60 meter hurdles in consecutive races. Last weekend she won the ECAC title in the event and ran a time of 8.18 in the finals after leading the field through the preliminary and semifinal heats. Prior to last weekend's competition her top time had been 8.25 at the Penn State National earlier this year.
The finals of the 60 meter hurdles will be run at 8:45 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday night.
Also in competition for the Wildcats on Friday night was sophomore
Emily Lipari (Greenvale, N.Y.), who ran in the preliminary heats of the Mile. She finished with a time of 4:46.66 in the first of two heats, placing seventh in her heat and 12th overall out of 16 runners.
Ward and Lipari both made their first individual appearances at the indoor NCAA Championships with their races this evening, although Lipari raced for Villanova on the team's national champion distance medley relay squad as a freshman last season. In their respective events Ward and Lipari were the only competitors from BIG EAST schools to have qualified for the national championships meet.
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Former Leesburg High School Girls Basketball, Girls Track and Field, and current Villanova University Womens Track and Field Standout Shericka Ward makes her first appearance on the Lake County Sports Show March 24, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.
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| Former Lady Jackets Track and Field Standout Shericka Ward at Villanova University. |
Below is a short list of Ward's accomplishments:
-2007 Class 5A Girls Basketball State Semifinalist
-2008 Class 5A Girls Basketball State Semifinalist
-2008 Class 3A 200 Meter Dash Girls Track and Field State Champion
-2008 Class 3A 100 Meter Hurdles Girls Track and Field State Champion
-Varsity Girls Basketball Letters 2007, 2008
-Varsity Girls Track and Field Letters 2006, 2007, 2008
-2011 All-Big East Conference 200 Meters Outdoor Track
-2011 All-Big East Conference 100 Meter Hurdles Outdoor Track
-2010 All-Big East Conference 200 Meters Indoor Track
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| Gerald Lacey (Carver Heights Quarterback Club Staff Writer), Allison Crawford (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Co-host), Sonny Bronson (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Host), Lake County Sports Show Host Billy Matthews (The Voice Of The Leesburg Yellow Jackets). |
Shericka Ward, Wayne Hamilton (former Leesburg High School, University of Alabama and San Diego Chargers Football Standout), Matt Shepherd (Former Leesburg High School, Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, Finland’s Kouvola Indians Standout and current Marburg Mercenaries in the southern division of the GFL player) will be the featured guests along with the show host Billy Matthews (The Voice Of The Leesburg Yellow Jackets), Sonny Bronson (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Host), Allison Crawford (Belton Bail Bonds Scoreboard Show Co-host) and Gerald Lacey (Carver Heights Quarterback Club Staff Writer).
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