Ashley Kelly posts season's bests to advance to Big 10 Conference 200m/400m finals
MAY 13—Britney Wattley and Ashley Kelly will have busy Sunday’s at the ECAC/IC4A Championships and the Big 10 Conference Championships in Princeton, New Jersey and Madison, Wisconsin, respectively.
Wattley qualified for the 100m and 200m meter finals while Kelly used season’s best to make the 200 and 400m finals.
Wattley ran 11.92 seconds in the 100m prelims and 11.94 in the semis to advance to today’s final. She won her 200m heat in 24.09 seconds for her finals berth, then led off the 4x100m relay that posted the fastest time of 45.12 seconds.
Kelly had a season’s best of 52.77—the second fastest of her career behind last year’s 52.71—to finish second in her heat and secured one of the four fastest times from the advancing group. She then followed up with 23.54 in the 200m—also the second fastest of her career behind the 23.49 from 2011—to finish third and advanced.
Kelly ran second on the 4x100m relay that won its heat in 44.88 seconds for a spot in the final.
Portland State Vikings Sr. Dominique Maloney was fifth in the Big Sky Conference 400m in 55.32 seconds, her fastest since 2008 when she ran 55.54. She ran 55.52 to advance to the final and had a 24.94 time in the 200m but did not advance.
Maloney anchored the Vikings’ 4x400m relay to a school record time of 3:47.75.
Elsewhere, Karene King was fourth in her heat and fifth overall the 200m in Cal State LA Last Chance meet, after running a personal best of 23.53 seconds to equal Chantel Malone’s time ran two weeks ago as the fastest marks by a BVI athlete this season. She was second in the 100m in 11.56 but skipped the final to focus on the 200m.
Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, competing in the Ponce Grand Prix in Puerto Rico, turned in a time of 11.71 seconds.