Colorado University Athletics
Metivier Big 12 Athlete of the Week
April 20, 2005 | General, Track and Field
DALLAS--Â The Big 12 Conference office announced that University of Colorado senior distance runner Renee Metivier and Nebraska pole vaulter Ray Scotten both earned their first career Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors for their respective performances during the week of April 11-17.Â
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In a Mt. SAC Relays women's steeplechase field that ran the top four times in the world this season in the race, Metivier ran to her second NCAA Midwest Regional qualifying mark in the event. Her 10:13.80 was good for seventh place, the top time by any collegian in the race, the best in the league so far this season, second in the nation and eighth in the world. It also bettered the CU school record set in the same meet three years ago by Lesley Higgins.
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Scotten, recorded the No. 1 mark in the NCAA men's pole vault while winning the John Jacobs Invitational title in Norman, Okla. His clearance was a personal-best height (18-2 1/2) both indoors and outdoors as well as his third straight outdoor win. The junior is undefeated in 2005 while he has improved his season-best mark in each of the three meets to date. Scotten leads the Big 12 by half of a foot and the NCAA by two inches.
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Metivier and the Colorado track and field teams will return to action Saturday, April 23 when the team will be divided to compete in three different meets, in three different states and as many time zones. Four distance runners will run in Eugene, Ore., several sprinters will compete at the Michael Johnson Invitational in Waco, Texas while the remainder of the squad will be in nearby Fort Collins for the Jack Christiansen Invite on the Colorado State University campus.
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