5 March 2002
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IWU Indoor Track
Rawlins, 4x400 Relay Team Qualify for Indoor Nationals

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Gena Rawlins of Illinois Wesleyan University has qualified for two events in the NCAA Division III national indoor track championships, to be held this Friday and Saturday at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.

Rawlins, a freshman from Atlanta (Stanford Olympia HS), has the second best qualifying time in the 400 meter dash with her school-record mark of 56.76 seconds, set at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin indoor championships on Feb. 22.

Tierra Hicks of Montclair State (N.J.) has the best 400 qualifying time at 56.60 seconds.

Rawlins is also part of the IWU 4x400 relay team that qualified for the national meet with a time of 3:57.64, eighth-best in Division III.

Others on the 4x400 relay team are sophomore Gianina Taylor (Decatur, Eisenhower HS), junior Michelle Dionne (Pana HS), and freshman Katie O'Rourke (Bloomington, Central Catholic HS).

The 4x400 relay team from Wheaton College in Massachusetts has the best qualifying time with a mark of 3:48.10.

The prelims of the 400 meter dash will be staged at 5:05 p.m. (Central time) Friday with the 4x400 prelims at 6:30 p.m. On Saturday, the women's 400 final is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. with the relay final slated for 4:15 p.m.