Live NCAA women's results

[zack]

Linnen clears on first, everybody else misses.

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Soma clears on her 2nd.

[zack]

Jerz, Wildhaber, Eveland, Chimielski are all out. The bar is going to 4.40

[zack]

Places so far.
7th place, Hiteshaw, Manuel
5th 4.20 Chimielski, Wildhaber
3rd Eveland, Jerz

[zack]

Kate puts height over 4.40 but comes down on it on her 1st.

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Soma is out.

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Becca says that it appears that Linnen is taking her 3rd at a higher height.

[zack]

Well whatever height it was she missed it but wins the competition with Soma taking 2nd I think.

[zack]

So I think the final standings should be like this.

1 Amy Linnen 4.30
2 Kate Soma 4.30
3 Eveland 4.20
Connie Jerz 4.20
5 Chimielski 4.20
Ashley Wildhaber 4.20
7 Kierney Hiteshaw 4.10
Stacie Manuel 4.10

[gpc3]

Thanks for the play-by-play!

[rainbowgirl28]

Becca says that it appears that Linnen is taking her 3rd at a higher height.

Yeah just kidding about the higher height. They remeasured the bar, so I assumed they had raised it, but somebody told me they messed up one of the standards and had to reset the height, so they remeasured it.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://gohuskies.collegesports.com/spor ... 05aab.html

Huskies finish two-day NCAA Indoor Championships with a record 10 All-Americans.




March 12, 2005




FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Husky senior Kate Soma and junior Ashley Wildhaber earned All-America honors Saturday with respective second- and fifth-place finishes in the women's pole vault at the 2005 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., while senior Lindsey Egerdahl cinched her first-career All-America honor with an eighth-place finish in the women's mile.

The defending Pac-10 and MPSF pole vault champion, Soma entered Saturday's competition with the nation's leading mark, at 14 feet, 3 1/2 inches. The senior from Portland, Ore., passed the opening height of 12-7 1/2, before first-attempt clearances at 13-1 1/2 and 13-5 1/4. Soma needed all three attempts at 13-9 1/4, however, and two attempts at 14-1 1/4, placing her behind Kansas vaulter Amy Linnen entering the final height. When both failed to clear at 14-5 1/4, Linnen captured the NCAA title, and Soma claimed second.

The runner-up honor was the second-straight in NCAA Championships competition for Soma, who placed second outdoors in 2004. The senior, who ranks seventh in NCAA history in the event, captured her fourth-career All-America honor, equaling Aretha Hill and Meg Jones for the most in UW women's history.

"I thought she was going to get it [14-5 1/4] on her first attempt, but she just came down on top of it," said third-year head coach Greg Metcalf. "She's always stepped up at these big meets, though, and today was no exception. There aren't a lot of people who can call themselves four-time All-Americans."

Wildhaber, meanwhile, earned her first-career All-America award on the strength of a third-attempt clearance at 13-9 1/4, her personal best and the second-highest clearance in UW history. The Chehalis, Wash., native joined Soma in becoming the first UW duo to earn All-America honors in the same event since 1994, when Laura Kruse and Monika Parker shared national honors in the javelin.

The two were part of a four-woman UW contingent in the vault, equaling the most for any one school in any one event at this year's championships. Sophomore Stevie Marshalek (Kent, Wash./Kentridge) placed 13th at 13-1 1/2, while junior Carly Dockendorf (Port Moody, B.C./Best Secondary) -- who competed in Utah Friday night for the UW gymnastics team -- was 17th at 12-7 1/2.

"Ashley was the only one of the four who didn't make it to NCAAs last year, so to see her come in here and do so well is terrific," said Metcalf. "To be able to go into any event with four competitors is an awesome weapon to have. Those ladies are building quite a tradition for our program."