Final Results
LANDOVER, Md. – The Norfolk State men's track and field team won its third consecutive MEAC indoor championship and fifth in the program's history Saturday, finishing the competition with a meet-record 170 points at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex.
The Spartans became the first MEAC men's program to win at least three indoor championships in a row since South Carolina State won four straight from 1988-91. They did it in convincing fashion, as second-place Delaware State (64) finished 106 points behind. The previous record of 144 points was set by South Carolina State in 1990.
NSU senior standout Dominic Luka (Marietta, N.Y.) was named the MEAC Men's Most Outstanding Performer. He won the mile race (4:19.99) and placed second in the 5,000 meters (15:19.92) Saturday. On Friday, he took second in the 800 (1:54.07) and ran a leg on the winning distance medley relay team, giving him a hand in 28.5 points.
Luka was far from the only standout. Senior Brandon Harris (Norfolk, Va.) defended his 2007 title in the 60 meters, winning in a personal-best 6.79 seconds. Sophomore Corey Vinston (Hampton, Va.) won the triple jump Saturday with a best leap of 50 feet, 8 inches, one day after winning the long jump championship. Vinston's marks in both events this weekend provisionally qualify him for next month's NCAA Indoor Championship.
Vinston, who earlier this indoor season provisionally qualified for the NCAAs in the 60m, placed third in that event Saturday (6.89).
Sophomore Marlon Woods (Norfolk, Va.) capped a stellar day in the field events for NSU by setting a meet and school record with a new personal-best in the high jump (7-2½).
NSU's other MEAC champion, crowned on Friday, was sophomore Brett Dodd (San Antonio, Texas), who cleared a school-record 14-2¾ to win the pole vault.
“Our athletes and my coaching staff did a tremendous job of preparing for this weekend,” said coach Kenneth Giles, who won his 12th MEAC Most Outstanding Coach Award. “We never took this for granted, but we knew if we performed to our abilities, this kind of result was possible.”
