Greene Earns ACC Weekly Honors For Second Time
April 3, 2019 | Track & Field
GREENSBORO, N.C. — North Carolina's Nicole Greene was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Field Performer of the Week, announced Wednesday by the league.
Greene, a redshirt junior from Ponte Vedra, Fla., returned to the top of the NCAA charts after clearing 6-0 3/4 (1.85 meters) in the women's high jump at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, N.C. A new personal-best outdoor height, her performance is currently tied for first in the NCAA and the East Region, and stands alone at first in the ACC. Greene also ties her event coach, Carolina track & field alumna Nicole Hudson, at No. 3 on UNC's all-time list of outdoor high jumpers.
Greene first earned ACC weekly honors after winning the women's high jump at Georgia Tech's Yellow Jacket Invitational. At the time, her season-opening height of 5-11 1/4 (1.81 meters) was first in the nation, first in the east region and first in the ACC.
NEXT UP: The Tar Heels will take on their Tobacco Road rivals, the Duke Blue Devils, in the head-to-head Battle of the Blues on Saturday, April 6. in Durham, N.C.
This week's top ACC track and field performers at a glance:
ACC Men's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Iliass Aouani, Fr., Syracuse
Aouani's 10,000 meter race of 28:25.36 bested former Syracuse standout Martin Hehir's prior mark of 28:27.70 – also set in Palo Alto – which had stood since April 3, 2015. The senior from Milan, Italy, set the new mark last Friday night amidst a 62-runner field that was filled with professionals and a number of fellow elite runners from ranked collegiate teams.
ACC Men's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Jacory Patterson, Fr., Virginia Tech
With his silver medal time of 45.76 in the 400 meters at the Florida Relays, Virginia Tech's Patterson knocked almost a full second off Hillard Sumner's previous school record (46.73) that had stood since 1996. It is the fourth school record that Patterson has broken in 2019 (Indoor 200, 300 and 400 in addition to the Outdoor 400). The Columbia, South Carolina, freshman ran a split of 45.37 as a member of Tech's 4x400 relay team later in the day.
ACC Women's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Paige Stoner, Sr., Syracuse
Syracuse's Stoner turned in the second-fastest women's 10,000 meters time in ACC history and the 12th-fastest in-season time in NCAA history with her 32:07.36 finish at the Stanford Invitational on Friday night. She shattered the Syracuse record and was under nine seconds off the ACC record in the event. Stoner now holds the Orange's 3000-meter steeplechase, 5000 and 10,000-meter records at Syracuse.
ACC Women's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Ka-Tia Seymour, Fr., Florida State
Florida State's Seymour, the ACC 100-meter dash record-holder, posted an all-conditions, lifetime-best of 11.08 (w +2.3) in a runner-up finish to NCAA leader Kayla White of North Carolina A&T (11.04) in Friday's competition at the Pepsi Florida Relays. Seymour set the ACC record as a freshman at 11.13. She currently sits at No. 2 on the national descending order list. The Palatka, Florida, native came back on Saturday to anchor the Seminole women to a seventh-place overall finish in the 4x100 relay. Teaming with Karimah Davis, Shauna Helps and Cortney Jones, Seymour brought the baton home in 43.84. It was the fourth-fastest time of the meet by a collegiate team, ranks No. 9 nationally and is the eighth-fastest time in FSU history.
ACC Women's Field Performer of the Week
Nicole Greene, R-Jr., North Carolina
Competing in the Raleigh Relays, North Carolina's Greene broke six feet in collegiate high jump competition for the first time with her mark of 6-0.75 (1.85 meters). The redshirt junior from Ponte Verda, Florida, now shares the No. 3 all-time mark at UNC with her current coach Nicole Hudson and is tied for the spot in the nation so far this outdoor season. Greene is off to the best start of her outdoor career with three consecutive wins by progressively better marks – 1.81m and 1.82m prior to last weekend.
ACC Men's Field Performer of the Week
Roje Stona, Fr., Clemson
In just his third collegiate meet, Clemson's Stona achieved the nation's No. 4 mark while winning the discus at the Florida Relays on Saturday. The Tiger freshman, who is now the ACC's leader in the event by nearly six meters, threw for 61.22m (200-10), which is good for second all-time in Clemson history. Stona is on the heels of Clemson's record holder Jack Harkness, who entering the weekend was the only Clemson discus thrower to clear 60 meters, dating back to 1982.
Greene, a redshirt junior from Ponte Vedra, Fla., returned to the top of the NCAA charts after clearing 6-0 3/4 (1.85 meters) in the women's high jump at the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, N.C. A new personal-best outdoor height, her performance is currently tied for first in the NCAA and the East Region, and stands alone at first in the ACC. Greene also ties her event coach, Carolina track & field alumna Nicole Hudson, at No. 3 on UNC's all-time list of outdoor high jumpers.
Greene first earned ACC weekly honors after winning the women's high jump at Georgia Tech's Yellow Jacket Invitational. At the time, her season-opening height of 5-11 1/4 (1.81 meters) was first in the nation, first in the east region and first in the ACC.
NEXT UP: The Tar Heels will take on their Tobacco Road rivals, the Duke Blue Devils, in the head-to-head Battle of the Blues on Saturday, April 6. in Durham, N.C.
This week's top ACC track and field performers at a glance:
ACC Men's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Iliass Aouani, Fr., Syracuse
Aouani's 10,000 meter race of 28:25.36 bested former Syracuse standout Martin Hehir's prior mark of 28:27.70 – also set in Palo Alto – which had stood since April 3, 2015. The senior from Milan, Italy, set the new mark last Friday night amidst a 62-runner field that was filled with professionals and a number of fellow elite runners from ranked collegiate teams.
ACC Men's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Jacory Patterson, Fr., Virginia Tech
With his silver medal time of 45.76 in the 400 meters at the Florida Relays, Virginia Tech's Patterson knocked almost a full second off Hillard Sumner's previous school record (46.73) that had stood since 1996. It is the fourth school record that Patterson has broken in 2019 (Indoor 200, 300 and 400 in addition to the Outdoor 400). The Columbia, South Carolina, freshman ran a split of 45.37 as a member of Tech's 4x400 relay team later in the day.
ACC Women's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Paige Stoner, Sr., Syracuse
Syracuse's Stoner turned in the second-fastest women's 10,000 meters time in ACC history and the 12th-fastest in-season time in NCAA history with her 32:07.36 finish at the Stanford Invitational on Friday night. She shattered the Syracuse record and was under nine seconds off the ACC record in the event. Stoner now holds the Orange's 3000-meter steeplechase, 5000 and 10,000-meter records at Syracuse.
ACC Women's Track Co-Performer of the Week
Ka-Tia Seymour, Fr., Florida State
Florida State's Seymour, the ACC 100-meter dash record-holder, posted an all-conditions, lifetime-best of 11.08 (w +2.3) in a runner-up finish to NCAA leader Kayla White of North Carolina A&T (11.04) in Friday's competition at the Pepsi Florida Relays. Seymour set the ACC record as a freshman at 11.13. She currently sits at No. 2 on the national descending order list. The Palatka, Florida, native came back on Saturday to anchor the Seminole women to a seventh-place overall finish in the 4x100 relay. Teaming with Karimah Davis, Shauna Helps and Cortney Jones, Seymour brought the baton home in 43.84. It was the fourth-fastest time of the meet by a collegiate team, ranks No. 9 nationally and is the eighth-fastest time in FSU history.
ACC Women's Field Performer of the Week
Nicole Greene, R-Jr., North Carolina
Competing in the Raleigh Relays, North Carolina's Greene broke six feet in collegiate high jump competition for the first time with her mark of 6-0.75 (1.85 meters). The redshirt junior from Ponte Verda, Florida, now shares the No. 3 all-time mark at UNC with her current coach Nicole Hudson and is tied for the spot in the nation so far this outdoor season. Greene is off to the best start of her outdoor career with three consecutive wins by progressively better marks – 1.81m and 1.82m prior to last weekend.
ACC Men's Field Performer of the Week
Roje Stona, Fr., Clemson
In just his third collegiate meet, Clemson's Stona achieved the nation's No. 4 mark while winning the discus at the Florida Relays on Saturday. The Tiger freshman, who is now the ACC's leader in the event by nearly six meters, threw for 61.22m (200-10), which is good for second all-time in Clemson history. Stona is on the heels of Clemson's record holder Jack Harkness, who entering the weekend was the only Clemson discus thrower to clear 60 meters, dating back to 1982.
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