Lyngstad, Rise Meet Qualifying Standard

April 10, 1999

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane track and field team used its depth to record another strong performance at the 1999 Green Wave Invitational, run Saturday at Tad Gormley Stadium. The Green Wave registered 15 season-best marks, while two women met NCAA provisional qualifying standards.

Junior Hanne Lyngstad and freshman Cecilie Rise each posted season-best marks in provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Lyngstad, a native of Elverum, Norway, blistered the field with a time of 9:23.16 in the 3,000-meter run, winning the event by almost 90 seconds. Lyngstad was just four seconds shy of the NCAA automatic qualifying standard and set a new seasonal best by more than 10 seconds. Lyngstad has recorded NCAA provisional qualifying marks in her last three competitions.

Rise, a native of Sandane, Norway, recorded the meet's only other NCAA qualifying mark with a jump of 41 feet, 11.25 inches (12.78 meters) in winning the triple jump. The mark was a personal best for the freshman and a new Tulane record. Rise is trying to earn her second consecutive berth in the NCAA Championships, as she qualified for the 1999 NCAA Indoor Championships in this same event.

The Green Wave also showed strength in the field events, as three Tulane student-athletes claimed double wins on Saturday. Senior Nadia Smith won the pole vault with a school-record mark of eight-feet, six inches and followed that with a 19-foot, three-inch leap in the long jump. Sophomore Noel Comrie posted two season-best marks in winning the long jump (49 feet, 1.75 inches) and triple jump (24 feet, 7.25 inches), while sophomore Nathan Junius was the top collegiate finisher in the discus (134 feet, 11 inches) and javelin (212 feet, two inches.)

Other Tulane student-athletes to earn event wins at the meet included Quasheba Lee (400 meters), Charlotte Plummer (400-meter hurdles), Alison Lambert (800 meters), Hanna Ritakallio (1,500 meters), Catherine Betz (javelin), Edrige Darling (400-meter hurdles), Amos Kipyegon (800 meters), Jacob Busienei (1,500 meters), and Men's 4x400-meter Relay.

Tulane will next be in action on Saturday, April 17, as the squad travels to Baton Rouge, La., for the LSU Invitational.