FERRIS' KAMITRA CARROLL TO COMPETE IN NATIONAL INDOOR MEET

Bulldog Thrower Headed To NCAA-II Championships In Boston

Junior Kamitra Carroll will represent Ferris at the NCAA-II Championships

The final meet participants were announced recently (Feb. 27) by the NCAA Division II Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee.

A total of 400 student-athletes qualified for the meet by reaching the automatic or provisional standards established for each event. Stonehill College and the Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Community College will serve as hosts of the championships. The top eight finishers in each event will earn All-America recognition.

Carroll will represent the Bulldogs in two events as she'll be involved in both the shot put and weight throw competitions. In the weight throw, Carroll's best toss (55-11.25) this year is 12th of the 14 student-athletes slated to compete Friday (March 9) at 1:30 p.m. (EST). Her seed mark (46-7.50) in the shot put is listed 10th overall of 14 throwers. The women's shot put will be held Saturday (March 10) at 12 p.m. (EST).

Carroll placed second in the shot put (46-7.50) and was fourth in the weight throw (55-11) while surpassing the national provisional qualification standard in both events at the 2007 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Indoor Championships held last Friday and Saturday (Feb. 23-24) in University Center, Mich.

Last year, Carroll took ninth place overall among 18 throwers in the women's shot put at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships (May 26-27) on Emporia State's (Kan.) Zola Witten Track inside Fran Welch Stadium at Emporia, Kan. Her best toss of 46-4.75 fell one spot short of earning All-America accolades.

During the 2005-06 season, Carroll was also named the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region Women's Indoor Field Event Athlete Of The Year as announced by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. She placed 11th overall in the shot put competition at last year's national indoor meet with a toss of 45-2.50 in the final round of the event at the Reggie Lewis Center.

The Bulldog women's indoor track and field team finished fifth with 49.50 points at last weekend's GLIAC Indoor Championships.