Mary Still earns MIAA Athlete of the Week honor

Feb. 24, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Senior collects second conference award for track & field

At the University of Oklahoma’s Sooner Indoor meet last weekend, Missouri Southern State University senior Mary Still (Carthage, Mo.) set a school record, came close to another, improved on one NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark and established another.

As a result, Still was named MIAA Women’s Track Athlete of the Week today.

In the 400-meter dash, Still turned in a clocking of 55.70 seconds, beating her school-record time from last season by two-tenths of a second. Her Saturday time, good enough for third place at OU, was just one-tenth of a second off an NCAA Division II automatic qualification and was an improvement of more than half a second from her previously established provisional.

Still’s new time in the 400-meter dash ranks fourth nationally. Last year, she earned All-America honors in the event by placing seventh at the national championships.

Still added another provisional time in the 60-meter hurdles, as she finished fifth with a season-best clocking of 8.97 seconds. That figure was just .06 seconds off of Tina Keller’s school record time from 1999.

The Carthage native also competed in the 60-meter dash and had a team season-best time of 7.91 seconds.

It marks the second MIAA Athlete of the Week award of the season for Still, who also won the honor on Jan. 27.

Still and the rest of the Lions will be back in action this Friday and Saturday at the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center, on the Missouri Southern campus, as MSSU hosts the MIAA Indoor Championships. Action gets underway on Friday at 1 p.m. and starts on Saturday at 11 a.m.


	Feb. 24, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mary Still earns MIAA Athlete of the Week honor Senior collects second conference award for track & field At the University of Oklahoma’s Sooner Indoor meet last weekend, Missouri Southern State University senior Mary Still (Carthage, Mo.) set a school record, came close to another, improved on one NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark and established another. As a result, Still was named MIAA Women’s Track Athlete of the Week today. In the 400-meter dash, Still turned in a clocking of 55.70 seconds, beating her school-record time from last season by two-tenths of a second. Her Saturday time, good enough for third place at OU, was just one-tenth of a second off an NCAA Division II automatic qualification and was an improvement of more than half a second from her previously established provisional. Still’s new time in the 400-meter dash ranks fourth nationally. Last year, she earned All-America honors in the event by placing seventh at the national championships. Still added another provisional time in the 60-meter hurdles, as she finished fifth with a season-best clocking of 8.97 seconds. That figure was just .06 seconds off of Tina Keller’s school record time from 1999. The Carthage native also competed in the 60-meter dash and had a team season-best time of 7.91 seconds. It marks the second MIAA Athlete of the Week award of the season for Still, who also won the honor on Jan. 27. Still and the rest of the Lions will be back in action this Friday and Saturday at the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center, on the Missouri Southern campus, as MSSU hosts the MIAA Indoor Championships. Action gets underway on Friday at 1 p.m. and starts on Saturday at 11 a.m.