GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina Central University earned four individual medals and a relay medal as the NCCU women's team captured its best conference finish in five years during the 2019 MEAC Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships on May 2-4, in Greensboro.
 
The NCCU women collected 50.5 points to place sixth in team standings, the Lady Eagles best finish and highest point total since finishing sixth with 54 points in 2014.
 
NCCU sophomore Bhrandi Crenshaw, who won the women's triple jump gold medal at the conference indoor championships in February, took home the outdoor triple jump gold medal on Saturday with a distance of 12.51 meters. The Alexandria, Virginia, native also claimed a bronze medal in the high jump at a height of 1.68m.
 
Junior Keila Robertson posted a career-best measurement of 12.20m in the women's triple jump to find her way onto the podium for a bronze medal.
 
The NCCU women's 4x100-meter relay squad of Tyresha Alexander, Bethany White, Erin Johnson and Olivia Andrews received bronze medals for finishing third in 45.84 seconds. For White, it is her seventh and final MEAC medal in a distinguished NCCU career.
 
On the men's side, NCCU junior Omega Smalls garnered a bronze medal in the high jump with a leap of 2.08m.
 

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Top NCCU Performers
 
Women's Triple Jump
Bhrandi Crenshaw (1st) 12.51m – Gold Medal
Keila Robertson (3rd) 12.20m – Bronze Medal
 
Women's High Jump
Bhrandi Crenshaw (3rd) 1.68m – Bronze Medal
 
Women's 4x100m relay
NCCU (3rd) 45.84 (Tyresha Alexander, Bethany White, Erin Johnson, Olivia Andrews) – Bronze Medal
 
Men's High Jump
Omega Smalls (3rd) 2.08m – Bronze Medal
Marvin Jones (4th) 2.08m
 
Women's 100m dash
Bethany White (4th) 11.28
 
Women's 200m dash
Bethany White (4th) 23.40
 
Men's Decathlon
James Johnson (4th) 5,244
 
Women's 4x400m relay
NCCU (4th) 3:48.50 (Olivia Andrews, Tyresha Alexander, Bethany White, Kiana Seabrook)
 
Men's 400m dash
Gordon Lewis (5th) 46.28
 
Men's 4x100m relay
NCCU (5th) 40.29 (Isaac Roberts, Joshua Polk, Blake Hartsfield, Gordon Lewis)
 
Women's 400m dash
Olivia Andrews (6th) 55.06
 
Women's Long Jump
Kiana Seabrook (7th) 5.66m
 
Men's 800m run
Mackenson Yrelus (7th) 1:55.95
 
Women's Heptathlon
Nateja Hale (7th) 3,924
Destinee Fisher (8th) 3,251
 
Men's 4x400m relay
NCCU (7th) 3:14.96 (Joshua Polk, Malik Miles, Mackenson Yrelus, Gordon Lewis)
 
Men's 3000m steeplechase
Ashton Drake (8th) 9:58.70
 
Team Standings
NCCU Women (6th) 50.5 points
NCCU Men (9th) 29 points
 
 
NCCU Women's Results at MEAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships
2019 – 6th (50.5)
2018 – 8th (28)
2017 – 11th (20)
2016 – 10th tie (22)
2015 – 11th tie (20)
2014 – 6th (54)
2013 – 9th (41)
2012 – 9th (35)