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NEW ORLEANS, La. – Lenoir-Rhyne University has six female student-athletes on an NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region team, the school announced Tuesday.
The team is selected by the USTFCCCA (United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association).
The Bears’ Autumn Drayton, a freshman from Charlotte, and Domonique Jones, a senior from Greensboro, Ga., are All-Region in two events each – Drayton in the discus and shot put and Jones in the discus and hammer throw.
Jones holds the LRU record in the hammer at 163 feet, 3 inches and she won a South Atlantic Conference (SAC) title in the event. She won the hammer five times in the outdoor season and was named the SAC’s Women’s Field Athlete Of The Year.
Drayton won the discus (135-6) and set the school record in the shot put (40-3) at the league championships this year.
Also, LRU sophomore Savannah Drummonds of Palm Coast, Fla., and junior Haylea Salamon of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada earned all-region in the pole vault and discus, respectively.
Drummonds, twice an All-Region pick, holds the school record in the pole vault (10-6) while Salamon earned all-region honors for a third straight year. Salamon set the program record in the discus (154-11) as a freshman in 2015.
Sophomore Paiton Fair of Newton made All-Southeast Region in the 400-meter dash for the second straight spring. She has the top time in the event in school history, clocking a 56.29 to finish second at this year’s SAC title meet.
LRU junior Sarai Hayes of Valdese is All-Region in the 200-meter dash. She has the best time in school history – 24.67 seconds – which was set at this year’s conference championships, good for second place
The top five in each event from each of the eight regions earned All-Region spots in addition to each of the members of the regions’ top-three relay teams.
The regions used for this award – Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast and West – match those used during the indoor track and field season.
Men: Myles Braswell-Sample, a senior from Durham, earned All-Region after he won the shot put five times during the outdoor season.
Last Sunday, he earned an NCAA Division II provisional mark with a personal-best throw of 52-11 at the North Carolina A&T State University Last Chance Meet.
Braswell-Sample won an SAC title in the men’s shot put as a junior and senior.
The NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships are scheduled on May 25-27 at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.