University of Georgia Athletics
Track Team Visits Governator, Advances Four At NCAAs
June 10, 2005 | Track & Field
June 9, 2005
SACRAMENTO, Calif. ----- After a morning Q&A session with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Georgia Track and Field team advanced four more athletes on the second day of competition at the 2005 NCAA Track and Field Championship.
The team arose bright and early for an excursion to the California State Capitol and a meeting with the Governator, facilitated by UGA graduate and Schwarzenegger's Deputy Chief of Staff, Richard Costigan III. The governor congratulated the athletes on their accomplishments in reaching the NCAA meet and encouraged each of them to focus on their goals and not let anyone or anything stand in the way of accomplishing them.
That afternoon at Sacramento State's Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex, Patty Sylvester set a personal best in the women's high jump preliminary, leaping 5-10.75 to tie with 14 other women at the same mark, and advancing to Saturday's final at 10 p.m. EST.
Jenny Dahlgren and Sultana Frizell made it to the women's hammer throw final round. Dahlgren threw the best preliminary mark (218-05) and Frizell came in ninth (196-04). Both women will appear in the final, set for 4:30 p.m. EST, also on Saturday.
LaRon Bennett, Georgia's recordholder in the men's 400-meter hurdles, clocked a 50.60 in the first round of the event, a time good enough to advance him to the semis on Friday at 11:45 p.m. EST.
The remaining Georgia athletes who competed on Thursday but did not advance were Martin Maric (18th prelim, 176-00) and Chad McClendon (26th prelim, 164-02) in men's discus, Kierney Hiteshew, who did not register a height in women's pole vault, and the men's 4x400 meter relay team of David Dickens, Demiko Goodman, Shaun Foster and Bennett, whose 13th-place, first-round finishing time was 3:05.64.
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