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Alexander tops NCAA rankings

Clayton Clarke
Published: 
Friday, May 4, 2012
Annie Alexander... at number one in the women’s shot put and discus

Annie Alexander, Akeela Bravo, Deon Lendore and Durrel Busby are the top performers in their events in the latest NCAA Conference rankings. Alexander, a final year journalism student at the Tennessee University, is at number one in the women’s shot put and discus in the SEC Conference while Bravo is on top of the women’s shot put standings in the Atlantic Sun conference.  Lendore heads the men’s 400m listing in the Big 12 conference while in the Horizon League conference,  Busby is the quickest in the men’ 110m hurdles. Alexander heads the SEC women’s shot put standings with 17.31m which she achieved at the Triton Invite on April 26. The distance betters the Olympic B qualifying standard of 17.20 and also improves her season best of 17.29. Hilenn James of Georgia University is third with a personal best of 17.18 attained on April 13, raising her previous record  from 16.14 attained last year.

 
 
Alexander and James are 1-2 in the discus with Alexander ahead on 55.45m and James in second with another pb of 54.97. In the Atlantic Sun conference Bravo is out front in the women’s shot with her 13.67m victory set at the Conference Championships on April 20.  The St. Francois Girls graduate is also second in the discus (46.74)and hammer (52.86) throws. Lendore raced to the top of the Big 12 conference 400m listing with his 45.56 clocking in winning the UM Hurricane Alumni Invite on April 14. The Texas A&M student dipped below the Olympic B standard of 45.90. In the Horizon League conference Busby is fastest in the men’s sprint hurdles with his wind assisted clocking of 13.90 at the Kansas Relays on April 18. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student is also third in the men’s javelin with 52.31. 
 
 
Other T&T in the top ten are: 
The LSU trio of Semoy Hackett, Kyron Blaise and Ade Alleyne-Forte,  the Wichita State three of Scarla Nero, Aaron Leung Woo-Gabriel and Samantha Shukla,  Wayne Davis II (Texas A&M), Kai Selvon (Auburn), Jamol James (Tennessee), the Baylor pair of Zwede Hewitt and Garvyn Nero, Dellon Williams (Texas Tech), Aleena Brooks (Minnesota), Deborah John (North Dakota State), Shawna Fermin (Washington State) and T'Keyah Dumoy (Florida International)
 
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