Collie earns NCAA Indoor bronze, fourth place for Little and Hernandez

Published by Texas A&M SID on March 12th, 2016

BIRMINGHAM – A bronze medal for Latario Collie and a couple of fourth-place finishes by Hector Hernandez and Shamier Little capped the indoor track and field season for the Aggies at the NCAA Indoor Championships held in the CrossPlex facility.
 
The Texas A&M men placed 10th with 17 points while the Aggie women had one scorer in Little with five points. Oregon swept the team titles with the men accumulating 62 points and the women scoring 53. Arkansas finished as runner-up in both team chases as the men totaled 39 and the women challenged the Ducks with 50 points.
 
Among the top 10 schools on the men's side were Tennessee (34), LSU (28), Texas (25), Washington (24), Florida (21), Virginia (18) and Stanford (18). The women's top 10 included Georgia (45), Texas (44), Notre Dame (35), Michigan (31), Tennessee (30), Kansas State (26), Georgetown (21), USC (18) and Oklahoma State (18).
 
"We had some good efforts today and it's good to see Latario get going again after having a foot hurting him most of the indoor season," said Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry. "That was a good sign today.
 
"I was pleased with Hector placing fourth and he had a solid 800, running 1:47 without his cohort in the race. Shamier took a chance and tried to run with the defending champion in the 400. Anytime you can run 51 seconds indoors as a 400 hurdler, that's big time."
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A leap of 53-11 ¼ (16.44) secured the bronze medal for Collie in the triple jump as he improved upon his fifth place position from a year ago at the national indoor meet. In placing third Collie matched the highest finish by an Aggie in the triple jump at the NCAA Indoor meet, joining Zuheir Sharif (2009) and Julian Reid (2011).