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Virginia Tech Challenge
Daniels Leads As Young Jumpers Excel
2/19/2011 12:00:00 AM | Track
Feb. 19, 2011
Virginia Tech Challenge Final Results 
BLACKSBURG, Va. – NC State’s Jazueline Daniels won the women’s triple jump with a personal-best leap of 40-feet, 6 ¼-inches Saturday afternoon at the Virginia Tech Challenge, one of several young jumpers who performed well for the Wolfpack in Saturday’s final day of action in the two-day meet.
The victory at Rector Field House on the Virginia Tech campus was the first career win for the sophomore from Kernersville, N.C.
Sophomore Danielle Adams tied for second in the women’s high jump with a leap of 5-feet, 3-inches.
Sophomore Karimah Shepherd was fifth in the triple jump. Her leap of 38-feet, 9 ½-inches was her second best in competition this season.
For the Wolfpack men, freshman Christian Council and sophomore Kris Kornegay-Gober both hit the 6-feet, 9-inch mark in the high jump. Council finished third overall in the event and Kornegay-Gober was fourth.
Teammate Travis Weston was sixth in the triple jump with a leap of 46-feet, 1 ½-inches.
In the running events, the NC State men’s 1600-meter relay team – consisting of sophomores Shawn Murray, Daniel Fretz and Benjamin Major III and junior Miles Walker -- was second to George Mason with a time of 3:13.79.
Freshmen Emily Egelhoff-Whalen and Ryanna Henderson finished seventh and eighth in the 1,000 meters with times of 2:57.38 and 2:58.98, respectively.
The Wolfpack men’s and women’s teams return to Rector Field House on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the ACC Championships.
