St. Aug's Pierre set to run at Beijing Olympics

Pierre Set To Run At Beijing Olympics

August 11, 2008

Track and field star Barbara Pierre of Saint Augustine’s College will compete for Haiti in the women’s 100-meter dash at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Pierre, a rising junior from Winter Haven, Fla., will be the latest in a long line of Saint Augustine’s College student-athletes to compete at the Olympics. She is the two-time NCAA Division II national 100-meter and 60-meter champion. This is her first Olympics.

Three former Saint Augustine’s College student-athletes are competing at the Olympics in track and field as well. Bershawn Jackson of the United States and Adrian Findlay of Jamaica are participating in the men’s 400-meter hurdles, and Kia Davis of Liberia is running in the women’s 400-meter and 200-meter dashes. Jackson, the 2005 400-meter hurdles world champion, advanced to the Olympics by winning his event at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in June.

The preliminary rounds for the women’s 100-meter dash and women’s 400-meter dash start Aug. 16. The men’s 400-meter hurdles prelims begin Aug. 15, and the women’s 200-meter dash prelims are set for Aug. 19.