at the championships. He secured his spot by running a provisional qualifying time of 47.46s at the Peach Belt Conference Championships in Pembroke, North Carolina. Brookins’ run earned him a silver medal in the event, as well as set a new school record.

Nine PBC Track & Field Athletes Earn All-America at NCAA Championships

BRADENTON, FLA – A record nine Peach Belt student-athletes earned All-America status at the recently completed NCAA National Championships in Bradenton, Fla. The nine honorees eclipses the previous mark of seven set last year. Six of the nine came from Shorter, who finished 20th overall in the women’ s team scoring and 29th in the men.

Shorter’ s Supan Randeniya opened the day’ s competition in the 110 hurdles; where he finished seventh overall in a time of 14.29 to earn his second All-American recognition of the year from the NCAA, having received the honor during the indoor season as well.

In the men’ s 5,000m, Shorter’ s Alfred Chelanga made a late push to come from the back of the pack to finish sixth overall in a time of 14:16.93 for his second All-American recognition of the weekend, as he also finished sixth in the 10,000m on Thursday evening in a time of 30:05.23.

Kory Jones saved his best for last on Thursday afternoon at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships, earning

all-American honors with a seventh place finish in the long jump. Jones, a Raeford native and Hoke County High School graduate, registered a pair of personal-best leaps on the day. He hit a mark of 7.46 meters on his second of three attempts in the preliminaries, and then topped that jump with a leap of 7.58 meters( 24 feet, 10-1 / 2 inches) on his second of three attempts in the finals. The performance continued an impressive tradition for the UNC Pembroke track & field team who now boasts six all-American performances in the last seven years. Jones is the second UNCP student-athlete( Jamel Allison, 2009) to earn the accolade in the long jump.

2016 PBC Men’ s Track & Field All-Region Selections

43 Men’ s Track & Field Athletes Named All-Region

NEW ORLEANS, LA-- Forty-Three Peach Belt Conference men’ s track and field athletes have been named All-Region by the USTFCCCA. The PBC winners come from both the south and southeast regions. To be named All-Region, an athlete must either be ranked in the top-5 of an individual event in the region according to final TFRRS data or be part of a top-3 relay team.

Shorter led the PBC with 13 All-Region athletes while UNC Pembroke added eight, Columbus State and Alabama-Huntsville seven each, Nova Southeastern six, Florida Tech two and Montevalloa nd Clayton State one each.