Princeton University
NCAA Championships
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Tigers Conclude Competition At NCAA Track & Field Championships
March 16, 2008 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Junior Michael Maag qualified for the final in the mile, finishing 10th overall, while Liz Costello and Justin Frick also competed for Princeton Saturday on the final day of the 2008 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at Arkansas's Randal Tyson Track Center. Heptathlete Duane Hynes also completed competition Saturday.
Maag's preliminary qualifying time in the mile was 4:05.38, the third fastest qualifying time. The 11-runner final was a tight race, with all 11 competitors finishing within a three-second span, and Maag's 4:06.61 was only two seconds behind the winning time.
The winning time, from Texas senior Leonel Manzano, was 4:04.45.
Costello was not among the 10 competitors to make it to the mile final on Saturday. She ran in Heat 2 of the preliminaries and finished in a time of 4:47.30.
Frick finished just shy of a scoring and All-America performance in the high jump. He was one of three competitors to reach a final mark of 2.14 meters (7 feet, 1/4 inch), but the two others finished ahead based on misses. Nebraska's Dusty Jonas cleared the 7-7 mark to win the NCAA title.
Hynes, in 13th after the first day of the heptathlon, couldn't make up ground Sunday but had strong performances in the pole vault, where his clearance of 15-3 was 7th-best, and in the closing 1,000 meters, where his time of 2:43.21 was ninth-best. His two-day score for the event was 5,451.