Dello runs to 100h final
8/18/2008 5:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field, Track & Field
BEIJING, China -- Former ACU all-America hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London is one race away from becoming the first Wildcat to win an Olympic medal in 24 years after she qualified on Monday for Tuesday's final in the 100-meter hurdles.
Ennis-London ? picked last week by USA Today to win the gold medal for her home country of Jamaica ? finished second in her heat to U.S. Olympic Trials champion, LoLo Jones. Jones won the first heat Monday in a personal-best time of 12.43 seconds, while Ennis-London finished second in 12.54 seconds. Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada was third in the heat (12.68), while Sally McLellan of Australia was fourth in 12.70 as all four qualified for the final.
In the second semifinal heat, Damu Cherry of the United States won in a time of 12.62, while her teammate, Dawn Harper, was second in 12.66 seconds. Brigitte Foster-Hylton of Jamaica was third in her heat in 12.76, while Sarah Claxton rounded out finals qualifying by finishing fourth in her heat race with a time of 12.84 seconds.
Ennis-London will try to become the first Jamaican female athlete to win a medal in the 100 meter hurdles Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. (CDT) when she runs in the final. Ennis-London was fourth in the 100-meter hurdles final eight years ago at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Four years ago in Athens she failed to make it out of the semifinals.
But ACU's first three-time Olympian since decathlete / pole vaulter Tim Bright (1984, 1988, 1992) has a chance for a medal on Tuesday. If she does medal, Ennis-London will be the first ex-Wildcat to win an Olympic medal since Albert Lawrence and Greg Meghoo each wno a silver medal on Jamaica's 4x100 relay team at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
No former ACU female athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. Prior to Ennis-London's fourth-place finish in 2000, the closest one has come to a medal was Tracey Barnes in 1996 when she ran on Jamaica's fourth-place 4x400 relay team in Atlanta.
Ennis-London ? whose fourth-place finish in the event at the 2000 Olympic Games is the best finish ever by a Jamaican female in the 100 hurdles ? will be in lane five Tuesday morning with U.S. Olypmic Trials champion Jones right next to her in lane four. Harper will be in lane six with Cherry lined up in lane seven.
Also on Monday, former Wildcat Richard Phillips ran a 13.60 to finish fourth in his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, qualifying for Tuesday's quarterfinals. The Jamaican native earned NCAA Division II all-America honors for the Wildcats in 20002 before transferring to George Mason University. His quarterfinal heat is set for 7:45 a.m. (CDT) Tuesday.
ACU's two other athletes in the Olympics won't run until later in the week in separate relay events. Former NCAA Division II national champion Marvin Essor is running on Jamaica's 4x400 relay team, which runs in Friday's semifinals. Meanwhile, Wanda Hutson ? who was a redshirt for the Wildcats in 2008 ? is running on Trinidad & Tobago's 4x100 relay team, which runs in Thursday's semifinals.
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