Michigan
Black & Gold Invitational
Holman, Wilson Post All-Time Marks to Open Outdoor Season at UCF
3/18/2022 11:21:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
Site: Orlando, Fla. (UCF Soccer and Track Complex)
Event: UCF Black and Gold Invitational (Day 1 of 2)
U-M Result: No team scoring
Next U-M Event: Saturday, March 19 -- at UCF Black and Gold Invitational - Day 2 (Orlando, Fla.), Noon
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Though it was only the 2022 outdoor debut for the University of Michigan women's track and field team on Friday (March 18), several Wolverines were already in all-time form at the UCF Black and Gold Invitational.
Indoor Big Ten silver medalist Ameia Wilson took the win in the long jump with one of the farthest wind-legal performances in school history, multiple-time Big Ten champion Ziyah Holman stepped down for a historically fast time at 200 meters, and Corinne Jemison impressed in her Michigan outdoor debut in the discus.
Before a weather delay knocked the final few events back by more than an hour and a second one pushed back the meet further, the Wolverines thrived in their first outdoor competition since the NCAA Outdoor Championships last June.
Wilson leapt a career-best 6.43m (21-1.25) in the third round of the long jump and held on for the win. She did not take any attempts in the final after a solid day of work.
For record keeping purposes at the international level, marks in the horizontal jumps and races on the track less than one lap are considered "wind legal" if the trailing wind behind the athlete is 2.0 meters-per-second (m/s) or less. The wind reading for Wilson's leap was exactly +2.0m/s.
Among wind-legal jumps in school history, only Brandi Bently (6.50m) and Tiffany Ofili (6.48m) have ever gone farther.
Additionally, the mark puts her in position to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships, should she replicate it later in the season at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, to which she almost certainly clinched a berth as one of the top-48 in the East Region. It took a leap of 6.23m to make nationals last season.
Teammate Hannah Waller was fifth with a mark of 5.80m (19-0.25).
In just her second career outdoor performance at Michigan at 200 meters, the three-time 400-meter Big Ten champion Holman posted a historic performance of her own with a fourth-place 23.60 (+1.8m/s). The performance ranks her No. 6 in school history among wind-legal performances, and would have been fast enough to advance her to the NCAA East Prelims every year since the meet's inception in 2010.
The debut of the day came from Jemison, who marked her first outdoor competition at Michigan with a third-place heave in the discus of 51.53m (169-1). With that performance, she debuted on the all-time U-M list at No. 6, and will very likely advance her to the NCAA East Preliminaries.
She was followed in seventh by Amanda Schaare at 47.97m (157-4).
Michigan pole vaulters combined for three top-seven finishes with fourth-place Brooke Tjerrild and sixth-place Mia Manson at 3.85m (12-7.5) and seventh-place Cate Visscher at 3.70m (12-1.75).
The meet continues Saturday at 10 a.m.
Michigan Results by Event
200 meter dash
Final
4. Ziyah Holman / 23.60 (+1.8m/s) [New PR]
25. Aasia Laurencin / 24.47 (+2.5m/s)
29. Savannah Sutherland / 25.43 (+1.8m/s)
33. Chika Amene / 24.59 (+1.5m/s) [New PR]
71. Delaney Stersic / 25.81 (+1.2m/s)
74. Simone Roberts / 25.92 (+1.2m/s)
81. Theresa Mayanja / 26.11 (+1.2m/s)
Pole Vault
Final
4. Brooke Tjerrild / 3.85m (12-7.5)
6. Mia Manson / 3.85m (12-7.5)
7. Cate Visscher / 3.70m (12-1.75) [New PR]
Long Jump
Final
1. Ameia Wilson / 6.43m (21-1.25) (+2.0m/s) [New PR]
5. Hannah Waller / 5.80m (19-0.25)
18. Riley Ammenhauser / 5.47m (17-11.25) (+2.3m/s)
Discus
Final
3. Corinne Jemison / 51.53m (169-1)
7. Amanda Schaare / 47.97m (157-4)
Javelin
Final
10. Theresa Mayanja / 35.97m (118-0) [New PR]
11. Clare McNamara / 34.49m (113-2)
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