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CSUN’s Reindell Cole was 11th in long jump at U.S. Track & Field Championships

(June 29, 2009)

Anchorage Daily News

(06/27/09 21:58:04)

David Registe of Palmer broke the 25-foot mark for the third time this season to finish in the middle of the pack in the long jump Saturday at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.

Registe, who will be a senior this fall at UAA, placed 14th in a field of 27 jumpers. He soared 25 feet, 7 1/2 inches to emerge as the third-best college jumper in the championships.

Two-time world champion Dwight Phillips, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist, won the event with a jump of 28-1 1/2.

Registe entered the meet with the nation’s 16th best jump of the season, a personal-best 25-11 1/2 at the NCAA championships last month.

The only college jumpers to beat him Saturday were Reindell Cole of Cal-Northridge (11th with a jump of 25-10 3/4) and Mikese Morse of Miami (13th with a jump of 25-10).

Registe, the 2008 NCAA Division II long jump champion, is the first UAA athlete to qualify for the U.S. national championships.

In the junior women’s javelin Saturday, Paige Blackburn of Soldotna placed 14th with a throw of 127-11. A sophomore-to-be at the Air Force Academy, Blackburn finished 16th in Friday’s junior women’s shot put with a toss of 44-2.

Blackburn, 19, won the state shot put and discus titles as a junior and a senior at Soldotna High. She just started throwing the javelin this season.

Publication: Anchorage Daily News