Brittany Cloudy ended the Atlantic 10 Indoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend by winning the triple jump and the long jump events. These were her fifth and sixth conference championships during her Saint Louis University career.
In 2009 and 2010, she also won the indoor triple jump.In 2010 she won the outdoor triple jump, and she has won the last two indoor long jumps. She was also named the Women’s 2012 A-10 Track and Field Most Outstanding Field Performer.
“My success this season is due to the training my coach prepared for me. We worked a lot on getting me fit and in better running shape,” Cloudy said.
Cloudy’s mark of 18-7 3/4 in the long jump beat Charlotte’s Biauna Jones’s mark of 18-4 1/2. Her triple jump mark of 40-8 1/4 broke her own school record and marked the first time she has swept the horizontal jumps at an A-10 tournament.
“I am very happy with my results, and I used wanting to be the ‘most outstanding field performer’ as motivation to strive to win both events, break meet records and go out with a bang. Although I was already happy with winning two titles, the outstanding performer was icing on the cake. I am very grateful to win the award,” Cloudy said.
Overall, the women’s team finished seventh and the men’s team finished 10th in the conference at the event.
Not to be overshadowed by Cloudy’s success, many other Billikens performed at an elite level, nearly winning their individual events.
Naya Owusu finished in second place in the high jump, with a mark of 5-7. Margo Richardson also placed in second overall in the mile run, finishing with a time of 4:57.68, and Hannah Kuenzel threw 44-9 3/4 in the shot put. All of these marks were new school records.
This marked the end of the indoor track and field season for the Billikens as they next compete in the Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame University on March 2. Although the events will now be held outside, the teams plan on using the same approach.
“I plan on keeping the same mindset I had at conference, treating everything like it’s my last, which it is,” Cloudy said. “I have confidence in my coach with prepping me physically for competition. It is my job to come mentally prepared. With those two things, I feel confident in my ability.”
