PITMAN, NJ…For the third time in her career,
New Jersey City University junior All-American sprinter
EBONY BARNES (Elizabeth, NJ/Elizabeth) has been named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week. The award comes for week two of the 2008 season.
Barnes, who earned the award for outdoor track and field as a sophomore in 2007, and twice during the 2007-08 indoor campaign, has now earned the NJAC Track Athlete of the Week eight times between the indoor and outdoor seasons over the last two years.
On March 29, when NJCU opened its spring season at the University of Maryland Terrapin Invitational in College Park, MD, Barnes, a 2006 and 2007 outdoor All-American in the 100-meter dash, likely locked up another shot at All-America accolades in just her first attempt of the season and added the 200-meter dash to her NCAA portfolio as well.
Barnes timed 12.15 seconds in the preliminaries of the 100 meters to finish third of 37 sprinters to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championship yet again. The NCAA provisional time is 12.35 seconds and the ECAC mark is 12.94. In the predominantly Division I meet, she was second of 12 Division III athletes in the race. In the finals, she was fifth, in 12.25 seconds.
Barnes was nearly as good in the 200-meter dash, finishing fourth of 42 overall and first of 14 Division III athletes in 25.25 seconds, easily eclipsing the ECAC standard of 26.44 and bettered the NCAA provisional time of 25.32 seconds.
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