2010 Horizon League Outdoor T&F Championships Complete Results

2010 Horizon League Outdoor T&F Championships Final Team Standings

Not only did she successfully defend her title in the hammer throw, but senior thrower Brittany Horne (Okemos, MI/Okemos) did so in school and league record fashion, earning her second event victory of the weekend and Outstanding Field Event Performer accolades while leading the Titan women to a sixth-place finish at the 2010 Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Loyola University and the University of Illinois-Chicago at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL.

UDM tallied 50 team points over three days of competition. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee took the women's team crown, amassing 217 points. Youngstown State (120) and Butler (120) rounded out the top three.

“We had a great meet and a positive end to the year,” said Detroit head coach Guy Murray. “Great performances and some great races.”

Horne, who set a personal best to win the league title in the discus throw Saturday, unleashed a throw of 61.30 meters/201' 1”, topping her own school record by nearly four meters, and surpassing the Horizon League championships meet record by six. The throw vaults Horne to 11th in the nation in the hammer and fifth in the East. She also added onto the Titan team total with a third-place finish in the shot put, recording a distance 13.28 meters/43' 7”.

“What a tremendous throw for Brittany (in the hammer),” said Murray. “I thought she was a serious contender to make the NCAA meet but now she could be a contender to score.”

But Horne wasn't the only Titan to set a school record Sunday. Junior Sequoyia Calhoun (Belleville, MI/Belleville) took down the UDM record of 57.20 seconds in the 400 meter dash, set by Nicole Callaway in 1997. Calhoun earned all-conference status with a runner-up finish in the event, clocking a time of 56.10 seconds.

Busy throughout the day, Calhoun anchored Detroit's relay squads as well. The Titan team of senior Megan Miller (Zanesville, OH/Zanesville), freshman Olivia Smid (Ann Arbor, Mi/Whitmore Lake), freshman Tressanique Hampton (Flint, MI/Southwestern Academy) and Calhoun ran 3:35.49 in the 4x400 meter relay to take third. In the 4x100 meter, Calhoun was joined by sophomore Susan Kalkstein (New Kensington, PA/Burrell), freshman Amanda Hollern (Grand Rapids, MI/Catholic Central) and freshman Nikia Duncan (Murrieta, CA/Murrieta) as UDM placed fourth in a time of 49.02 seconds.

Kalkstein earned an individual fifth-place finish in the triple jump, where her best jump went for a distance of 11.51 meters/37' 9.25”. Smid, in addition to running a leg of the 4x400 meter relay, was sixth across the line in the finals of the 400 meter hurdles finals, running a time of 1:05.20.

The regular season is in the books, but some members of the UDM track and field squad will continue competing in the hopes of earning a bid to the NCAA preliminary round at the end of May. The Titans' next chances will come on Friday, May 7 at the Oregon Twilight meet in Eugene, OR, or at the Len Paddock Invitational in Ann Arbor, MI, Friday and Saturday, May 7-8.