Over the course of a demanding two-day, seven-event competition, every athlete in the NCAA championships heptathlon is looking for an advantage. It turns out Wisconsin teammates Dorcas Akinniyi and Jessica Flax had one in each other.
There's something about Drake Stadium that lends itself to fast starts for Dorcas Akinniyi. Now it's just a matter of carrying that momentum to the finish for Akinniyi, who positioned herself remarkably well on the opening day of the heptathlon at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
With personal-best performances in the 60-meter hurdles, high jump and 800 meters, Dorcas Akinniyi went on to post a career-high score of 4,254 points and again earn All-America honors with a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium in College Station, Texas.
The Wisconsin women's track and field team will send a pair of athletes to compete in this weekend's 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas, with the list of qualifiers for the meet announced late Monday.
