Jessica Lee Qualifies for NCAA East Regional in 100m Hurdles
5/18/2017 1:50:00 PM | Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Lee Becomes Third Bobcat in Program History to Advance to NCAA Regional Event
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – The record-setting season of Quinnipiac women's outdoor track and field junior Jessica Lee (Montgomery, New Jersey) reached another pinnacle this week as she advanced for the first time to the NCAA Women's Track & Field East Regional.
Lee will compete in her signature 100m hurdles event as she joins Shameal Samuels (2015-16) and Katie Gwyther (2005-06) as the lone Quinnipiac track and field student-athletes to advance to an NCAA Regional event. Lee will debut for the Bobcats in the First Round on Friday, May 26 in Lexington, Kentucky at the University of Kentucky Track & Field Complex with a start time of 4:30 PM. If she finishes in the Top 24 of the preliminary round she will advance to the next round on Saturday, May 27 at 7:30 PM.
It's tough to all fit on one graphic but here's the full list of Jess Lee's accomplishments in an incredible 2016-17 season #MAACTF pic.twitter.com/czQmz9Fxq4
— Quinnipiac Track/XC (@QUTFXC) May 15, 2017
The Bobcat standout Lee adds another notch to her belt as her junior 2016-17 season has been one of the greatest individual campaigns in program history. Already the program's record holder for both sprint hurdle events (60m hurdles, 100m hurdles), Lee earned a spot in the NCAA East Regional with one of the Top 48 times among all student-athletes in the eastern region of the country. Not only is Lee just the third Quinnipiac track and field athlete to advance to an NCAA Regional, Lee becomes the first hurdler in program history to advance to an NCAA Regional event.
Lee's program record time of 13.56 seconds at Quinnipiac accomplished at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia on April 29 stands as her best time from the 2016 outdoor track and field season. Lee is seeded No. 44 out of 48 hurdles slotted in the 100m hurdles field as she will be going up against some of the best athletes in the country. The field includes five who own times under 13 seconds while the top-seeded competitor Charlton Devynee of Purdue ran a season high time of 12.67 seconds.
2017 NCAA East Regional 100m Hurdles Preliminary Seed List
Event 29 Women 100 Meter Hurdles (48) Prelims
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Name Year School Seed
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1 1353 Devynne Charlton JR Purdue 12.67
2 740 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn SO Kentucky 12.69
3 518 Peta-Gay Williams SO Florida State 12.96
4 907 Ebony Morrison SR Miami 12.96
5 624 Jeanine Williams SO Georgia Tech 12.99
6 511 Cortney Jones FR Florida State 13.06
7 1173 Chantel Ray JR Ohio State 13.09
8 1535 Amber Hughes SR Tenn State 13.12
9 1035 Kayla White SO N. Carolina A&T 13.16
10 749 Jacklyn Howell JR Kentucky 13.18
11 838 Tonea Marshall FR LSU 13.20
12 1026 Jabreuna Brimlett SO Murray State 13.22
13 479 Skylar Ross-Ransom SR Florida 13.23
14 474 Brandee Johnson FR Florida 13.23
15 369 Cha'Mia Rothwell FR Dartmouth 13.23
16 425 Kyra Atkins SO East Tenn. St 13.25
17 924 Alexus Jimson-Miller SR Miami (Ohio) 13.26
18 517 Nicole Setterington SR Florida State 13.34
19 905 Stefani Kerrison SO Miami 13.35
20 713 Jocselyn Powell JR Kennesaw State 13.35
21 1556 Jessica Duckett SO Tulane 13.37
22 832 Brittley Humphrey FR LSU 13.37
23 1502 Tia Thevenin SO Syracuse 13.39
24 992 Leah Lott SR Miss State 13.41
25 1615 Ciara Leonard SO Virginia 13.41
26 977 Elizabeth Dadzie SR Mid. Tenn. St 13.44
27 843 Danielle Phillips JR LSU 13.46
28 275 Ebony Williams SO Clemson 13.46
29 618 Kenya Collins JR Georgia Tech 13.46
30 416 Cheyenne Hutchinson SR East Carolina 13.47
31 1068 Taejah Robertson SO Norfolk State 13.48
32 82 Monica Howard SR Alabama State 13.48
33 1030 Morgan Knight JR N. Carolina A&T 13.49
34 1171 Christine London SR Ohio State 13.50
35 1128 Braneshia Payton JR Northwestern St 13.51
36 1494 Courtney Warden JR Stony Brook 13.52
37 1474 Modesty Lorick SR So Mississippi 13.52
38 504 Jamika Glades SR Florida Atlantic 13.52
39 1355 Shantyra Delaney SR Purdue 13.52
40 202 Selina Von Jackowski SO Buffalo 13.52
41 711 Laura-Maria Oja SR Kennesaw State 13.54
42 476 Ryann McEnany SR Florida 13.55
43 218 Lilla Juhasz SR Campbell 13.56
44 1380 Jessica Lee JR Quinnipiac 13.56
45 1094 Gabriele Cunningham SO NC State 13.57
46 1497 Danielle Delgado JR Syracuse 13.58
47 1487 Adriana Wright SR St. John's 13.61
48 1536 Crystal Williams SR Tenn State 13.61
A distinguished student-athlete, Lee's 2016-17 season has been one of the most dynamic in recent memory as she starred in the indoor and outdoor season while building her case for the most prolific single-season in program history.
In the indoor season, Lee captured an unprecedented seven 60m hurdles titles including one in the 200m to come away with eight first place finishes on the season. At times during the regular season she established a new facility record in the 60m hurdles at the University of Rhode Island's Sorlein Invitational and also posted a program record 8.35 seconds in the same event at the Armory Track Invite. Lee was crowned the MAAC's Most Outstanding Track Performer after taking home titles in the 60m hurdles and 200m dash, becoming just the second Bobcat in program history to take home the highest individual honor in the conference. That strong performance was followed by wins at the New England Championships (defending her 2016 crown) and at the ECAC Championships as she became the school's first-ever ECAC Indoor Champion.
Lee's 2017 outdoor season included many stellar outings as she shined at the MAAC Championships, taking her first-ever 100m hurdles title with a MAAC record time of 13.76 seconds. A week prior Lee made history, stunning the field and besting three Top 50 hurdlers in the nation to place third at the Penn Relays with a program record time of 13.56 seconds. Most-recently Lee made history once again, placing first at the ECAC Championships in the 100m hurdles, becoming the first-ever Bobcat in program history to claim two career ECAC titles.
Evaluating the 100m hurdles field at the NCAA East Regional, Lee joins some standout hurdlers as 16 come in with times of 13.25 seconds or better. The top five ranked hurdlers in the event all hail from high-major programs while eight of the Top 10 seeded competitors attend powerhouse track and field programs including Purdue, Kentucky, Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech and Ohio State. Lee is one of 20 competitors hailing from mid-major programs while she is the fifth-fastest hurdler from a school located in the Northeast, sitting behind Dartmouth's Cha'Mia Rothwell (No. 15 seed), Syracuse's Tia Thevenin (No. 23), Stony Brook's Courtney Warden (No. 36) and Buffalo's Selina Von Jackowski (No. 40).
Lee joins some elite company as the lone two other Quinnipiac track and field student-athlete to have advanced to the NCAA Regionals was former three-time All-American Katie Gwyther '06 and the best sprinter in program history Shameal Samuels '16. Gwyther, as a senior in the 2005-06 season competed in the 5000m at the NCAA Regional event in Greensboro, N.C. Gwyther went on to place 15th in the 5000m at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, 11th in the 3000m at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships and 12th in the NCAA Cross Country Championships. Samuels is the only Bobcat to advance to two NCAA Outdoor Regional events in their respective career.
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