RESULTS | Lee Last Chance Meet index
 
Cleveland, Tenn.----Wingate University junior high jumper Valerie Daehler set a Lee University Last Chance Meet record Saturday, clearing 1.71 meters on the way to a first-place showing inside the LU Ray Conn Sports Complex. Her leap is an NCAA provisional effort and a personal-best mark for the 2023 South Atlantic Conference women's high jump champion.
 
Daehler is tied for 14th on the NCAA Division II chart, virtually assuring her a spot in the NCAA Division II outdoor national championship meet in Pueblo, Colorado later this month. The top Division II mark this season is 1.81 meters, established by West Texas A&M junior Brooke Urban (Lone Star Conference meet). The NCAA will announce this year's national championship participants Tuesday evening, May 16 at 6 p.m. EDT.
 
Lee Last Chance Meet, additional Wingate women's highlights
 
- Daehler remains No. 3 on Wingate's high jump career top 10 list
- Only All-Americans Vanisha Wilshire (1.81) and Christina Matheny (1.73) have jumped higher
- Esma Pajt finished second in the hammer throw (52.23 meters)
- Enora Toupin earned a silver medal in the 3000 meter steeplechase (11:07.97)
- In her final T&F race as a Bulldog, Lauryn Tumey Ursery claimed fourth in the 10000 meters (36:30.70)
- Judith Vaquero placed fourth in the high jump (1.52 meters) and sixth in the discus (41.79 meters)
- Brooklyn Pierce finished fifth in the 5000 meters (17:51.10)
- Laila Abouzaid took eighth place in the same event (17:59.09)
 
Lee Last Chance Meet, Wingate men's highlights
 
- Brent Surratt and Will Aitken both posted provisional times in the 3000 meter steeplechase
- Surratt finished second with his silver-medal time of 9:01.70
- Aitken earned a fourth-place finish with his time of 9:11.74
- Surratt and Aitken have the second and the third-fastest times in the SAC this year
- Wingate has the five fastest 3000 meter steeplechase times in the SAC this season
- Shane Moran competed in the 1500 meters, posting a time of 3:53.38

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