Hoosiers finish well at NCAA's

The Indiana men's track and field team earned its best finish in 13 years in 15th place at the 2006 NCAA Track and Field Championships.\nThe Hoosiers garnered 15 points overall while Florida State won the championship with 67 points. \nLeading the Hoosiers was All-American junior David Neville whose third-place time of 44.94 seconds in the 400-meter run was a career best.\nSophomore Kyle Jenkins posted a career high fourth finish in the triple jump with a jump of 16.19 meters, which earned him his first All-American honor of his career. \nPlacing in the top five with a time of 3:04.81 was the Hoosiers 4x400 relay team comprised of Neville, sophomores Doug Dayhoff and Ryan Smith and junior Treymane Warfield. \nThe other Hoosier competing in the championships was red shirt senior Will Fleming, who placed 11th in the hammer throw with a throw of 62.94 meters. \nSeniors Ryan Ketchum and Stephen Haas placed in the preliminaries but were unsuccessful in making the finals. Ketchum placed 20th in the shot-put and Haas produced a 15th-place finish in the 1,500 in 14:28.18.\nAll-American senior John Jefferson placed in the semifinals with a 14th in the 1,500. Leading the Lady Hoosiers was senior Kelly Siefker, whose 9th-place finish in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10 minutes, 11.73 seconds, earned her an All-American honor.\n"It was absolutely amazing" Siefker said. "I never felt so honored to be a Hoosier."\nRed shirt junior Jessica Gall placed 11th in the 10,000 in 34:21.87, and senior Larra Overton placed a personal best 15th in the 1,500 of the semifinals in 4:22.03.\n"I was definitely pleased with my results," Overton said. "I ran the best 1,500 meters of my career."\nRunning in the preliminaries but not making the finals was senior Ara Towns, who placed 27th in the 100-meter dash. \nOverall, the IU women did not place in the meet. Auburn won the women's event with 57 points.