Eagles Finish 2nd at ODAC Track Meet
The 2006 ODAC outdoor track championships were held at Bridgewater College on Saturday, April 22, with six members of the Eagles' football team garnering 50 of the 106 points scored for Bridgewater en route to a second place finish.Sophomore defensive back (now wide receiver) Melvin Queen was only .04 seconds off the ODAC meet record in the 100 meters with a first place time of 10.83. He also finished third in the 200 meters, with a time of 22.90 seconds.
Sophomore wide receiver Brandon Copeland won the long jump with a distance of 7.08 meters (just over 23 feet). The jump met the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying standard. He added a fifth place finish in the 100 meters with a time of 11.34 seconds.
Junior defensive back, and special teams extraordinaire, Price Ward placed second in the triple jump with a distance of 13.71 meters.
Wide receiver Jacobie Napier (pictured), who used his final year of eligibility in 2004, recorded the fourth best long jump of the day covering 6.48 meters.
Sophomore linebacker Shawn Baker helped the Eagles with a sixth place in the javelin throw at 35.39 meters, while sophomore linebacker (now free safety) Ryan Baer also recorded a sixth place finish, throwing a discus 39.56 meters.
The 4x100 relay team for the Eagles finished second with a time of 42.33 seconds.
Complete Meet Results
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Queen also met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the 100 meters, but he did so during the Asics Collegiate Invitational on April 1.
He finished second in the event with a time of 10.66 seconds. His time was just two-hundredths of a second off the college record.
So far, his time is the eighth-best in Division III this season.
Copeland's 7.08-meter long jump at the ODAC Championships is the sixth-best in Division III this year thus far.
You can check on Queen's and Copeland's NCAA qualifying status by going to Raceberry Jam's NCAA men's outdoor performance lists.
Brandon Copeland bettered his long jump distance at the Liberty University Meet on Thursday, jumping 7.33 meters (24 feet, 4 inches).
That jump was the third-best in Division III this season, which qualifies him for NCAA Division III Outdoors Championship meet.
Want to congratulate Brandon Copeland and let him know that Page HS and all of his old teammates are proud of him.
A great kid-selfless performer.
-Coach Rogers
It's official. Both Copeland and Queen (two wide receivers on the football team) will represent Bridgewater at the 2006 NCAA Men's Outdoor Championships in Illinois.
Copeland's long jump distance of 7.33 meters on May 4 at the Liberty Twilight finished as Division III's sixth-best jump in the nation.
Queen just made the cut in the 100-meters, with his 10.66-second run on April 1 at the Asics Collegiate Invitational finishing as the 17th-best (only the top 19 get invited).
Click here for the participants at each event.
The NCAA meet is May 25-27 at Benedictine University, in Lisle, Illinois.
Click here for the official NCAA outdoor meet web site.
Congrats to Copeland on being named All-American by finishing seventh in the long jump at the NCAA Outdoor Track Championships today. He leaped 23'4.75" feet.
NCAA Long Jump Results
Queen will run in the 100-meter dash on Friday, May 26, at 5:05 pm. If he makes the final, that will be run on Saturday at 2:40 pm.
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