Wildcats finish on NCAA team podium
The Kentucky women’s track and field team finished third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with 50 points, led by Abby Steiner’s 200-meter individual title in collegiate-record time, and 4x400m relay of Karimah Davis, Dajour Miles, Steiner and Alexis Holmes’ event crown on Saturday at Hayward Field.
Steiner won the NCAA 200m title in one of the meet’s most anticipated events, finishing in 21.80 seconds.
Steiner got off to a great start and then unleashed one of her trademark late acceleration performances down the stretch and raising her arms in triumph at the finish line to outduel LSU’s Favour Ofili.
UK’s collegiate-record-holding 4x400m relay of Karimah Davis, Dajour Miles, Steiner and Alexis Holmes won the Championship’s last event with a time of 3:22.55.
The women’s 4x100m relay of Shadajah Ballard, Steiner, Masai Russell and Davis claimed NCAA silver with a time of 42.55 to score eight points.
Masai Russell earned her first individual NCAA outdoor medal, a bronze in the 100m hurdles, running 12.81 for third place. Russell came back and scored five more points in the 400m hurdles, running 55.83 for fourth place. Combining her share of silver-medal points in the 4×1 (two points), Russell earned 12 for the meet.
Steiner claimed bronze in the 100m with a time of 11.08 (+0.2), out-leaned at the tape by Texas’ Julien Alfred (11.020) and Oregon’s Kemba Nelson (11.014).