Women stay on track with strong finish at Drake Stadium

Saturday, April 13, 1996

Hayes, Anderson sprinting tandem leads way to victoryBy Scott
Yamaguchi

Daily Bruin Staff

The UCLA women’s track and field team performed a bit of spring
cleaning Saturday at Drake Stadium, dusting Cal State Northridge,
Houston and UC Irvine in typical ho-hum fashion.

The Bruins amassed 88 points in the quadrangular competition
­ almost as many as the other three teams combined ­
while Northridge finished with 41 points, Houston with 28 and
Irvine with 24. In dual scoring, UCLA ­ ranked second in the
nation ­ remained undefeated with a 94-34 flogging of Houston,
a 96-43 victory over Northridge and a 91-37 win over Irvine.

Among the top performers Saturday was the ballyhooed sprinting
tandem of Andrea Anderson and Joanna Hayes, both of whom appear to
be making an impact in their true freshman seasons.

Hayes, the 1995 Track and Field News prep female athlete of the
year, won the 100- and 400-meter hurdle events and ran the anchor
leg on UCLA’s winning 1,600-meter relay. Her 13.53 finish in the
100 hurdles, a season-best, earns her a provisional qualification
to the NCAA championships in June. Her 58.99 finish in the 400
hurdles, a lifetime-best, is a provisional qualification as well
and currently ranks seventh in the NCAA.

Anderson, a former high school All-American out of Long Beach,
was a quadruple winner Saturday, taking the 100 meters and 200
meters in addition to running legs on both winning relays.

Her 11.64 finish in the 100 and her 23.65 finish in the 200 both
meet NCAA provisional qualification standards, the latter ranking
fourth on the most recent list of national qualifiers.

UCLA, as usual, won all of the field events in which it
competed. Junior high jumper Amy Acuff cleared the bar at 6 feet 2
inches, giving her the victory and a tie for the highest outdoor
mark in the nation so far this season. Valeyta Althouse heaved the
shot 59-81Ž2 to take that event, and was followed in second
place by Nada Kawar (52-4). Kawar was also second in the discus
with a mark of 179-5, about 10 feet shy of teammate Suzy Powell’s
winning mark (189-11). Freshman Jeanarta Jackson won the triple
jump with a leap of 37-1.

Senior All-American Camille Noel, who had been battling injury
throughout the early season, finally returned to competition and
finished second in the 400-meters (56.02). UCLA sophomore Mame
Twumasi won the event in 55.56.