April 21, 2001

Lake Buena Vista, Fla. - Clemson men's team and North Carolina women's track and field teams Saturday claimed the 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference Track and Field Championships, held at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Clemson men's team tallied 189 points, edging out second-place Florida State by just six points. Virginia took third place with 108 points, followed by North Carolina with 97.50 points. Wake Forest finished fifth (84.50) on the men's side, while NC State took sixth place (78.50). Georgia Tech finished seventh (44), followed by Duke (22.50) and Maryland (12).

North Carolina women, led by freshman Shalane Flanagan, scored 181 points to capture a 14-point win over second-place Clemson. Florida State finished third with 101 points, while Virginia captured fourth place with 95 points. Georgia Tech took fifth place with 68 points, followed by Maryland with 59 points, NC State (34), Duke (28) and Wake Forest (25).

Clemson's men dominated the sprinting events, taking the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes and the 110-meter high hurdles. Jacey Harper won the 100-meter dash in a time of 10.25 and the 200-meter dash in a time of 20.71, earning provisional qualifying marks in both. Clemson's Ato Modibo won the 400-meter dash with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 44.87, while Todd Matthews won the 110-meter high hurdles in a time 13.84. Clemson also won the 4x100-meter relay. In the men's high jump, Florida State's Shawn Brown set an NCAA automatic mark of 7'04.50" to win the event. Joe Allen, also of Florida State, won both the long jump and the triple jump. NC State's Isaiah Oglesby set a new ACC record as he won the hammer throw with a distance of 208'01."

North Carolina's Flanagan won the 1,500-meter run in an ACC record time of 4:18.82. The mark also earned Flanagan an automatic bid to the NCAA championship. She also won the 5,000-meter run with a provisional mark of 16:29.68. Tar Heel Alice Schmidt won the 800-meter run in a time of 2:06.50, an NCAA provisional mark. Clemson's Jamine Moton won her third individual title as she took the discus with a provisional mark of 176'07." Moton won the hammer throw and shot put on Friday. Cydonie Mothersill, also of Clemson, won both the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash and ran a leg on Clemson's 4x100 relay team, which won the event with an NCAA automatic time of 44.19.

NC State's Katie Sabino won the league's first competition in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, taking first place in an NCAA provisional time of 10:23.42.