Meet Information
2018 NCAA East Regional Preliminaries
Day One | Thursday, May 24, 2018
Tampa, Florida | USF Track & Field Stadium
 
The Basics
FIU opened the NCAA East Region Preliminaries on Thursday, May 24, with three student-athletes competing in two events at the University of South Florida Track & Field Stadium in Tampa. Asha James  (Canaan, Tobago) began the day's events for the Panthers in the javelin, while Clarissa Cutliff (Orlando, Florida/Edgewater) and Kenflore Atilus (Naples, Florida/Naples) took part in the high jump.

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Day One Highlights
- Clarissa Cutliff was one of 11 competitors to clear 1.80m, but that was good enough to be one of the top 12 finishers to punch their ticket to the NCAA Championships at the University of Oregon's historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, June 6-9.
 
Cutliff, the three-time defending Conference USA high jump champion, advances to the NCAA Championships for the second-consecutive season. Cutliff earned Second-Team All-America honors at the 2017 NCAA Championships. She won the 2018 C-USA title with a mark of 1.84m, just shy of her own school record of 1.85m set at the University of Miami Hurricane Collegiate Invitational on April 14. She was a Second-Team All-America selection at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Cutliff has been dominant in the event this season, having finished on the top of the podium in all five meets she has competed in during the outdoor campaign.  
 
- Joining Cutliff in the high jump was Kenflore Atilus, making her first appearance in the NCAA East Regional Preliminaries. Atilus cleared 1.70m before going out at 1.75m.
 
- Also taking part in her first NCAA Regional was Asha James in the javelin. A former soccer player at FIU, James shook off the nerves to post her second-best throw of her short career – having competed in just seven meets during her freshman season – with a distance of 45.99m.  
 
Up Next
Two FIU student-athletes will compete in one event on Friday, May 25, in the NCAA East Region Preliminaries, as Gabrielle Rains (Sherwood Park, Alberta) and Terrisa Russell (Fort Lauderdale, Florida/South Broward) take to the circle in the women's discus at 1:15 p.m. Russell will return to action on Saturday, May 26, on the final day of competition, to take part in the women's hammer throw at 8:45 a.m.
 
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