Arkansas Wins Indoors Again

Arkansas won its seventh consecutive men’s title in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Saturday night in Indianapolis, and Texas’ Carlette Guidry and Wisconsin’s Suzy Favor completed multi-event victories.

Arkansas, the men’s champion every year since 1984, took the title again by scoring in only four events--the mile, 3,000 meters, triple jump and 3,200-meter relay. The Razorbacks’ seven team victories tied them for the all-time indoor lead with Texas El Paso. The Miners won in 1974-76, 1978 and 1980-82.

Guidry led Texas to its third women’s title in five years by winning the 55-meter and 200-meter dashes, and running on a 1,600-meter relay team that posted the fastest indoor time in history.

Favor also won the women’s mile and 3,000-meter races.

Cal’s Sheila Hudson broke the American record in the women’s triple jump, leaping 45-9, six inches farther than the previous mark of 45-3, set by Yvette Bates in 1981.

Harvard’s Meredith Rainey, the NCAA outdoor champion in the women’s 800 meters, added that indoor title to her collection in stunning fashion. Rainey won in 2:02.77, breaking the collegiate record of 2:02.9, set by Mary Decker of Colorado in 1978.