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By Mike Rosenbaum, About.com Guide to Track & Field

NCAA Crowns Indoor Champs

Thursday March 20, 2008
Arizona State scored a rare double by winning both the men’s and women’s Division I team titles at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, held in Fayetteville, Ark. Since the women’s championships began in 1983 only LSU – in 2004 – had won both the men’s and women’s D-I crowns in the same season.

ASU’s women won their second consecutive indoor championship. The school also won the D-I outdoor title last year. Arizona State scored 51 points and was led by Jacquelyn Johnson, who won her third consecutive indoor heptathlon championship. Johnson came from behind to edge Michigan’s Bettie Wade in the final event, the 800 meters. Johnson's 4,496 points broke the previous NCAA record of 4,439 points set by Austra Skuyte of Kansas State in 2002.

Arizona State’s men scored 44 points, edging runner-up Florida State by three points. ASU’s Kyle Alcorn took the lead with two laps remaining to win the 3000 meters (8:00.02). ASU then held off Florida State in the meet’s final event, the 4 x 400-meter relay. The Sun Devils finished third in that event while FSU settled for sixth.

In Division II, St. Augustine's cruised to its second consecutive men’s title and its 11th national championship overall with 68 points. The D-II meet was held at Minnesota State.

Joe Kindred won the high jump for St. Augustine’s, clearing 2.12 meters (6-feet, 11.5 inches). He was also second in the long jump. St. Augustine’s quartet of Alvin Miles, Antonia Abney, Chris Cox and Randy Curry won the 4 x 400 relay in 3:12.67.

Lincoln’s Wilbert Walker was the meet’s lone dual-winner, taking both the long jump (7.69 meters) and triple jump (16.39) competitions.

On the women’s side, Adams State won its first-ever D-II championship, beating St. Augustine’s 55-48. Adams State posted a consistent effort, gaining 19 All-American performances. Adams State’s distance medley team of Sofia Monroe, Drew Houston, Laura Knapp and Tanya Gaurmer gave the school its lone victory, in 11:39.81.

St. Augustine’s Barbara Pierre won both the 60-meter (7.41) and 200-meter (24.37) events. Illinois Wesleyan was a also a first-time team champion, capturing the women’s Division III title at the Ohio Northern University Sports Center in Ada, Ohio.

Wesleyan’s Rachel Anderson won the 400-meter dash in 55.66. She also anchored the school’s 4 x 400 relay team, which broke the tape in 3:52.21. The other members of the victorious quartet were Ali McCoy, Mackenzie Clemens and Brooke Halcott.

Wisconsin-LaCrosse won its 15th men’s D-III championship and its seventh in the last eight years. Wisconsin-LaCrosse’s winners included Bobby Riley, who captured the shot put with a toss measuring 16.94 meters (55-feet, 7-inches), plus the 4 x 400 relay team of Alex Rooker, Dylan Randolph, Jon Doble and David Kolbe, which posted a winning time of 3:19.67.

Peter Kosgei of Hamilton won both the 800 (1:51.97) and the mile (4:11.17).

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