NC State
ACC Championships
Jumpers Lead Pack on Day Two of #ACCITF
2/27/2015 12:00:00 AM | Track
Day 2 Results
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Jonathan Addison and Alexis Perry made a #STATEment on day two of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Indoor Track and Field Championships by claiming gold in their respective events.
Addison won the men's high jump, and Perry won the women's long jump.
The Wolfpack had a strong outing as the men's team sits in fifth place with 23 points and the women in second with 41.5. In addition to two individual champions and four All-ACC honors, State had six athletes advance to the final heats of tomorrow's competition.
Rollie's Recap:
"Today was a really good day for us. We are happy about the athletes who advanced to the finals tomorrow, and anytime a student-athlete wins an ACC title it's a good day for the program. It's also good anytime you get more than 10 points in an event. We did that today in the women's 5,000m."
Jump Crew:
Addison opened up the day with an individual title in the high jump. The Raleigh, N.C., native won the event by tying his indoor personal best with a mark of 7'0.25". The title was Addison's second individual ACC Championship of his career. He won the ACC outdoor long jump title in 2014. Addison was just getting started as he also excelled in his other events. 
Following the high jump, the junior qualified for the 60m dash finals with a time of 6.75, and won All-ACC honors in the long jump with a second-place finish of 24'11.00".
By the end of the day, Addison earned 18 points for the NC State men's team. He still has one more event tomorrow, which he can earn more points.
Perry continued the success for the jumpers by earning her first individual ACC Championship in the women's long jump. The Durham, N.C., native made her first jump count with a leap of 20'9.75". The mark held through the rest of the event as Perry claimed the title. 
Perry also had success in her track events with a third-place mark of 8.32 in the 60m hurdles. The junior will compete in the final heat on Saturday.
Elizabeth Shuman rounded out the competition for the jumpers by earning points for the team's total. In her last meet as an NC State student-athlete, Shuman earned a sixth-place finish in the women's high jump with a mark of 5'7.00". 
Heptathlon:
Grant Rivers completed the second portion of the men's heptathlon and finished in 10th place with a total of 4873 points. Rivers finished third in the high jump, earning 740 points, and seventh in the long jump earning 695 points.
Sprints:
On the track side of competition, three sprinters qualified for tomorrow's final heats. In addition to Addison, Quashawn Cunningham in the men's 60m and Paisley Simmons in the women's 60m and 200m will compete in the finals.
Cunningham finishing seventh with a time of 6.93 in the preliminary rounds of the men's 60m, while Simmons finished the women's 60m in eighth with a time of 7.53. Simmons also had a strong finish in the 200m with a seventh-place time of 24.15. 
In the men's 400m race, Will Krehnbrink was just .11 seconds short from qualifying. He finished 10th with a time of 48.05.
Mile Run:
After a strong start to the championships with the women's distance medley relay team, Megan Moye continued her successful meet by finishing ninth and qualifying for the finals in the mile run with a time of 4:52.05.
On the men's side, Nick Link finished ninth in the preliminaries of the mile, but just missed out on qualification for the final heat.
The top two times from each preliminary heat automatically qualify for the finals while the next four fastest times also advance to the final. Link's time of 4:09.07 was less than two seconds shy from qualifying.
5,000m:
Erika Kemp and Joanna Thompson scored valuable points in the women's 5,000m. Kemp finished in third with a time of 16:17.06, while Thompson finished right behind in 16:18.18 for fourth place. 
Kemp improved seven spots from last year's finish and earned All-ACC honors in track for the first time in her career.
Jacob Thomson wrapped the day for NC State with an eighth-place finish in the men's 5,000m. His time of 14:17.51 is a personal best.
Up Next:
NC State will look to build off the successful day on the track in Saturday's final events. The 4x400 relays and the 3,000m races will run as well as the final heats from today's preliminary rounds on the track. In field events, NC State will compete in the shot put and triple jump.
