St. Aug's Kindred wins High Jump at 2009 Penn Relays
Kindred Wins High Jump at 2009 Penn Relays
April 25, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Joe Kindred (Sr./Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) of
Saint Augustine's College tied a personal best of 7-5 to win the
College Men's High Jump Championship Division on Saturday (April
25) at the 2009 Penn Relays held at Franklin Field.
Kindred, the 2009 national indoor field athlete of the year and the
2008 national outdoor field athlete of the year in Division II,
beat a strong field including Dwight Barbiasz of the University of
Maryland, who finished second with a jump of 7-2.25.
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"Everyone was good," said Kindred, who won the same event at the
Penn Relays in 2008. "We are always battling so it could've been
anyone's win. I'm happy I won."
The winning jump tied Kindred's best of 7-5 which he first set at
the Penn State Invitational indoor meet on Jan. 26, 2008.
The victory capped a good week at the Penn Relays for Kindred, who
also finished seventh in the College Men's Long Jump Championship
Division with a jump of 24-9.75. Jeremy Hicks of LSU was the winner
with a leap of 26-3.
The Saint Augustine's College team of Rashaud Johnson (Sr./St.
Louis, Mo.), Antonio Abney (Soph./Willingboro, N.J.), Randy Curry
(Sr./Atlanta, Ga.) and Josh Scott (Soph./Winter Haven, Fla.) placed
second in the College Men's 4x400 Championship of America relay in
a personal best of 3:02.10. Florida State won the relay in
3:01.54.
In other results involving Saint Augustine's College
student-athletes, Brandon Quarles (Jr./Phoenix, Ariz.) placed
fourth in the College Men's Triple Jump College Division with a
jump of 49-7.25, Christopher Copeland (Fr./Suffolk, Va.) placed
fourth in the College Men's High Jump College Division with a leap
of 6-6.75, and the foursome of Ramon Gittens (Soph./St. Michael,
Barbados), Richard Boone (Jr./Petersburg, Va.), Dennis Boone
(Sr./Petersburg, Va.) and Josh Robinson (Jr./Kansas City, Kan.)
finished fourth in the College Men's 4x200 Championship of America
Division in 1:22.35.
Olympic sprinter Barbara Pierre (Jr./Winter Haven, Fla.) placed
sixth in the College Women's 100 Dash Championship Division in
11.47 on Saturday, and she led a team including Dartania Jackson
(Jr./Tampa, Fla.), Sheena Johns (Soph./Greenwood, Del.), and
Angelique Smith (Fr./Union City, Calif.) to a sixth-place finish in
the College Women's 4x100 College Division in 46.00 on Friday.
The foursome of Pierre, Smith, Krya Mobley (Jr./Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla.) and Sharona Brown (Jr./Manchester, Jamaica) placed ninth out
of 35 teams in the College Women's Sprint Medley Championship of
America Division. Their time was 3:58.06.
Former Saint Augustine's College sprinter Phillippe DeRosier won
the Olympic Development Men's 100 Dash in 10.23.
The Penn Relays were held April 21-25, 2009.
