FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Alabama men and women used strong showings on the final day of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, including a pair of silver medals, to race up the team standings at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark. Saturday.
The Alabama men finished in seventh place with 22 points, led by a silver-medal finish in the mile by freshman distance ace Eliud Kipsang. Other Saturday scorers for the Crimson Tide included Christian Edwards (triple jump) and Champion Allison (400-meters). Jake Spotswood scored for the Tide in the heptathlon on Friday while Bobby Colantonio Jr. got the Tide started by scoring in the weight throw on Thursday.
Tamara Clark used a pair of career-best times to push the Crimson Tide women into the top 20 in the team standings. She earned a silver medal in the 200-meters and posted a fourth-place finish in the 60-meters within an hour of each other on Saturday to tally 13 team points and secure 16th place.
"We really went out there and finished things off strong on both the men's and women's side today. Everyone showed a lot of grit and determination and it really paid off for us. I can't say enough about Tamara and the way she went out competed today. To run the 60 and 200 within 45 minutes of each other is really tough double and she handled it by posting PRs in both and scoring big points for us. Eliud really came through in his first national championship and he's just going to get better and better. From Bobby and Jake on days one and two to Tamara, Eliud, Christian and Champ today, everyone did their part. For the women to overcome the obstacles they did and finish in the top-20 and for the men to finish in the top-10 four indoor championships in a row is really special. We are really proud of everyone and how they toughed out a very different season."
Alabama on the National Stage (Indoors)
- Alabama's men finish seventh with 22 points at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships, marking the Tide's fourth top-10 finish in a row and highest finish since taking sixth in 2014
- It was UA's 11th top-10 indoor finish overall and its longest streak of top-10 finishes in school history
- The Crimson Tide women finished 16th with 13 points and have now finished in the top-20 six times since 2013
- Overall, Saturday's finish marked the UA women's 20th top-20 finish since women's athletics came under the NCAA's auspices in 1982
Crimson Tide Scorers
- Tamara Clark used a new school record to take silver in the 200-meters for the second NCAA Indoor Championships in a row
- Clark's time in the 200, 22.45, is the seventh fastest time in collegiate history and nearly a quarter of a second better than her previous school mark
- Clark is the second UA woman to medal in the 200-meters more than once, joining Olympian Pauline Davis, who finished first and second in 1988 and 1989, respectively
- Clark moved up two places from the semifinals in the 60-meters, taking fourth place with a 7.18 and tying her career-best, which she ran on Friday in the semifinals
- Clark's fourth-place finish is the highest in the 60-meter for the UA women since Remona Burchell won back-to-back NCAA Championships in the event in 2014 and 2015
- Clark is the second fastest UA woman in the 60-meters and holds the 8th fastest time (times two) in school history
- Eliud Kipsang bettered his own school record in the mile, going 3:55.93, to take second place
- Kipsang's finish ties him with David Kimani (2002) for the best in UA history in the mile at the NCAA Indoor Championships
- Kipsang shaved nearly a second off his previous school record of 3:56.88, set at the Tyson Invitational last month
- Kipsang is one of three Alabama runners under four minutes in the mile and the fastest by more than three seconds, with Olympian Tim Broe now in second place with a 3:59.38 in 1999
- Christian Edwards took fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 54-6 (16.61m)
- Edwards' fourth-place finish is the Tide's best in the triple jump since current assistant coach Miguel Pate took second in 2002
- Edwards' mark of 54-6 (16.61m) is the second longest of his career behind the 54-7.25 (16.64m) leap at the 2021 SEC Championships and the third longest in UA history
- Another indoor PR for Champion Allison, 45.79, led to a sixth-place finish in the 400-meters, Alabama's best finish in the event since Steven Gayle took fourth in 2017
- After twice tying Gayle (2017) for second all-time at UA in the indoor 400-meters with a pair of 45.97s, Allison used a 45.79 in Saturday's NCAA finals to take sole possession of second place, trailing only Olympian Kirani James
- Jake Spotswood bettered the school record for the third time in 2021 to take seventh place in the heptathlon on Friday
- In 10th place after the first day, which included the first four events, Spotswood took top honors in the pole vault to help boost him to a school-record 5,715 points
- Bobby Colantonio Jr. put the Alabama men on the board on day one of the championships by posting a throw of 73-0¾ (22.27m) on his final toss to take fifth place in the weight throw
- Overall, Colantonio posted three throws over 70 feet on the day
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