2014 WAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships Preview - Women

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The Chicago State women's track and field team will head to Orem, Utah, (May 14-17) to compete at the 2014 Western Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Seniors Jaya Emerson (Charlotte, N.C./Hopewell) and Pearl Chitava (Harare, Zimbabwe/The Heritage School) will look to earn all-conference honors in their events along with freshman Zhate Jackson (Plano, Ill./Plano) and junior Summer Allen (Kankakee, Ill./Kankakee).

Emerson and Chitava will be competing in their last conference championships as Chicago State Cougars. Emerson has school records in the indoor weight throw (15.21) and shot put (13.86). She also has four outdoor records in the shot put (13.40), discus (42.85), hammer (45.33), and javelin (33.70). Chitava is part of the school record setting 4x400 meter relay team which ran a time of 4:01.11 at the 2014 SIUE Gateway Invitel (April 19).

Emerson is ranked sixth in the WAC in shot put (13.25), 13th in discus (38.07) and 12th in hammer (43.33) among WAC competitors. Chitava is ranked sixth in the 100 meter dash with a time of 12.13 which she ran at the Chicagoland Outdoor Championships (March 27).

Jackson earned second team all-conference honors in the 200 and 400 meter dashes at the WAC Indoor Championships. She currently holds four indoor school records: the 55 meter dash (7.33), 200 meter dash (25.04), 400 meter dash (56.96) and the 4x400 meter relay (4:01.55). Jackson also ran on the outdoor 4x400 meter relay team that ran a school record time of 4:01.11. She is currently ranked 10th in the WAC in the 200 meter dash with a time of 24.78.

Allen is ranked 13th in the 100 meter dash with a time of 12.38. She is two hundredths of a second away from the eighth fastest time.

Sophomore Shaquilla Jackson (Chicago, Ill./Team Englewood) is ranked sixteenth in the 100 meter dash with a time of 12.44. Sophomore Jusilya Scott (Chicago, Ill./Kenwood)'s personal best of 3,211 in the heptathlon that she recorded at last year's Great West Conference Outdoor Championships would rank her fourth in the WAC.