Clarke Advances to 60m Finals On Day One of B1G Indoor Championships

Friday, February 23

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Clarke Advances to 60m Finals On Day One of B1G Indoor Championships

Feb 23 | Women's Track & Field

B1G Day One Results Photo Gallery

Junior Scarlet Knight Sets New PR With Third Fastest Time in RU History

GENEVA, Ohio – Junior Oniesha Clarke is heading to the 60m finals to highlight day one of the 2018 Big Ten Indoor Championship for the Rutgers women's track and field team.

Clarke placed fifth in Friday's preliminaries with a new PR of 7.43, which is also the third fastest time in Rutgers history.

Watch Oniesha Clarke qualify for the #B1G 60m finals - Junior Scarlet Knight with a 7.43 in the prelims - a new PR and third fastest time in Rutgers record book pic.twitter.com/SJZfhXPolA
— Rutgers Womens TF/XC (@Rutgers_WomenTF) February 23, 2018

Other notable results included PR's for Ariel Strunkey in the 60m (7.73) and 200m (24.64), freshman Kayla Jackson in the 400m (57.70m), sophomore Lynnea Davis in the 60m hurdles (8.99) and freshman Jacqueline Simmons in the long jump (5.78m/18' 11.75").

Day two of the Big Ten Indoor Championships gets underway at 11 a.m. for the women. FloTrack will provide live coverage as will BTN Plus via BTN2Go.

BTN will air tape-delayed coverage of the Big Ten Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships at 8:00 p.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 26.

2018 Big Ten Indoor Championships – Day One Results
60m
5. Oniesha Clarke - 7.43 *
22. Ariel Strunkey – 7.73
23. Bria Saunders – 7.75
* - Advances to finals on Saturday

200m
14. Oniesha Clarke – 24.41
16. Bria Saunders – 24.59
17. Ariel Strunkey – 24.64
22. Arianne Strunkey – 25.06

400m
27. Arianne Strunkey – 56.98
29. Kayla Jackson – 57.70
32. Dakota Gerges – 59.38

800m
13. Sarah Robbie – 2:12.79
14. Jenna Sobieski – 2:13.69

3000m
20. Alexandra Juzwiak – 10:21.13

60m Hurdles
18. Bukola Akinsola – 8.97
19. Lynnea Davis – 8.99
20. Drew Andrews – 9.05

Distance Medley Relay
11. Rutgers (Kiera Nealon, Kayla Jackson, Brianna Haspel, Olympia Martin) – 12:21.48

Long Jump
16. Jacqueline Simmons – 5.78m (18' 11.75")
23. Nyamekye Opoku-Agyemang – 5.50m (18' 0.5")
24. Oniesha Clarke – 5.46m (17' 11")
25. Anna Czajkowski – 5.43m (17' 9.75")

Pentathlon
17. Oksana Sokolova – 3355
18. Selena Thorne – 3142
20. Drew Andrews – 3053

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