University of North Carolina Athletics
Three Former Tar Heel Track & Field Athletes to Compete at World Indoor Championships
March 4, 2004 | Track & Field
March 4, 2004
Several former North Carolina track & field athletes shined at the U.S. Indoor Track & Field Championships Feb 27-29 in Boston, Mass. and are now set to compete against the world's best at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Track & Field Championships March 5-7 in Budapest, Hungary. Former Tar Heels Allen Johnson, Milton Campbell and Crystal Cox all won U.S. Indoor titles last weekend and will compete this weekend at the World Championships.
Johnson won the 60-meter hurdles at the U.S. Indoors with a time of 7.44. He won the 60-meter hurdles world title in 1995 and 2003 and enters this year as a favorite to repeat his title. Johnson has won four U.S. indoor titles and and four world Indoor titles as well as seven overall world titles. He ran at UNC from 1990 to 1993, winning a NCAA indoor title in the 55-meter hurdles in 1992. Johnson is currently ranked No. 1 in the world in the 60-meter hurdles.
Campbell will compete on the U.S. 4x400 relay team as well as the 400-meters event in Budapest. He is coming off a U.S. indoor title in the 400-meters with a time of 46.43. Campbell also placed fourth in the 200-meters at the U.S. Indoors with a time of 21.34. Campbell ran for UNC from 1995 to 1998. He was a two-time national champion in the 4x400 relay and a 13-time All-America, the most of any Carolina male track athelete. Campbell won a world title in 1997 as part of the 4x400 relay team.
Crystal Cox won the 200-meters with a time of 23.27 last weekend in Boston for her first U.S. indoor title. She will compete in the 200-meters at the World Championships this weekend. Cox is ranked 27th in the world in the 200-meters. She competed at Carolina from 1998 to 2001.
Tisha Waller also competed at the U.S. Indoors and placed second in the high jump with a mark of 6-2 3/4. Waller is ranked 15th in the world and competed at UNC from 1989 to 1992. Waller was a five-time All-America during her UNC career and holds the ACC high jump record at a mark of 6-3 1/2. She won the Olympic Trials in 1996. She is a nine-time U.S. Indoor champion and set the American high jump record in 1997 with a jump of 6-7.
"I am so glad Tisha, Crystal, Allen and Milton are continuing to have success in their careers at such a high level," said UNC head coach Dennis Craddock.
Nadine Faustin is another former Tar Heel track & field athlete that is setting records. Faustin, a native of Haiti and a two-time All-America at UNC, set the Haitian record in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.00 on Feb. 22, 2004.
"I am really proud of Nadine," said Craddock. "I am glad she continues to have success after her career here and I am glad she gets to bring positives to a country that is going through some tough situations down there."
