The Nation of Blue would like to congratulate Rondel Sorrillo for the first ever NCAA Championship in the 200m in UK history. “It really hasn’t hit me that I am the 200m champ,” Sorrillo said. “The cold weather played a major part in the race, I believe this race could have been a lot faster if the conditions had been favorable. I am just glad to get the victory.”
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The crown was captured at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR on Saturday. Here is an excerpt from UKAthletics.com:
[quote=ukathletics.com]Sorrillo stands second all-time at Kentucky with eight All-America honors and has reached that mark in two years, faster than anyone in UK history. The senior stands just behind Olympian Tim Harden who captured 10 in four years from 1993 to 1996. Sorrillo is also the first Southeastern Conference athlete to win the 200m dash since Wallace Spearmon of Arkansas in 2005.
“Rondel bounced back pretty well from what happened in the 4×1 and didn’t let it affect his 200,” UK assistant coach of sprints Erin Tucker said. “He didn’t have the greatest start of the 200 but into the turn he didn’t feel like anyone was running with him. Rondel transitioned really well in and out of the curve and with 80 meters left the race was pretty much over. We wanted to improve on last year and the only way to do that was win, after a second place finish last year and that’s what happened.”
With Sorrillo’s 18 points, 10 points for first in the 200m and 8 points for second in the 100m, the Kentucky men’s track and field team finished 13th overall. Adding another record to Sorrillo’s career, he has collected the most points in a single NCAA Championship by anyone in UK history. The men’s team total of 18 is the second-most points scored by the men in UK history behind the 25 scored in 2008.[/quote]
