Relay
Gold -- Brew, 4x400m
Relay Gold -- Campbell, Bailey, McDonald, 4x100m |
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Individual
Gold -- Campbell, 200m
Individual Silver -- Williams, 200m; Moffitt, long jump Individual Bronze -- Campbell, 100m; Brew, 400m |
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Derrick
Brew capped off what has been a memorable, if not unbelievable
2004 Summer Olympics for former Barton County Community College
track and field stars. Brew hauled in the 9th and final medal
for former Cougars with a gold medal effort as part of the
United States men's 4x400m relay team. Brew and his 3 USA
teammates combined to capture the gold at the XXVIII Olympiad
in Athens. That give former Cougars 5 gold, 2 silver, and
2 brone medals from the Olympics. For Brew, it was his 2nd
medal of the games and his first Olympic Gold medal ever.
Veronica
Campbell capped off what will be a very memorable Olympics
as she ran the final leg of the Jamaican women’s 4x100m
relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. That allowed
her cross the finish line in gold medal style yet again as
she and her Jamaican teammates won the event. Campbell, a
2002 graduate of Barton County Community College, ends the
XXVIII Olympiad with two gold medals and bronze medal from
her 3 events. In addition to Campbell, former Cougar Aleen
Bailey ran on the team while Beverly McDonald will also receive
a medal for running in the semifinal round.
It
was another sweep in one fashion and just short of a sweep
in another and former Barton County Community College star
Bernard Williams was right in the middle during the final
days of the 2004 Summer Olympics. The United States men went
1-2-3 in the 200m dash giving the USA sprinters their second
sweep. America swept the men’s 400m dash as well. Williams
won silver for the USA and almost gave former Cougars a sweep
of their own in the event. Had Williams taken the gold, Barton
graduate would have won both the men’s and women’s
gold in the 200m. As it is, Barton County now has 1 gold,
2 silver, and 2 bronze in track and field at the XXVIII Olympiad
in Athens.
John Moffitt saved the best jump of his life for just the
right moment. That jumped turned out to be a silver medal
– an Olympic silver medal. Moffitt moved into 2nd place
on his next-to-last jump of the long jump finals, finishing
2nd behind teammate Dwight Phillips. Moffitt jumped a personal
best 27-9.5 to capture the silver medal as the United States
went 1-2 in the event. Phillips jumped 28-2 to win gold. It
Moffitt’s, a 2003 graduate of Barton County, first Olympic
event and his 1st Olympic medal. Former Barton County Cougars
have now won 4 individual medals with Veronica Campbell owning
gold, Moffitt silver, and Campbell and Derrick Brew bronze.
Veronica
Campbell saw her dream become a reality Wednesday night in
Athens, Greece. Campbell’s dream of an Olympic Gold
medal came to fruition as she bested the rest of the world
in the 200m dash of the 2004 Summer Olympics. With that win
Campbell also becomes the 1st former Barton County Cougar
to win an individual gold medal. She now has two medals (bronze
in the 100m) to her credit during these games and another
from the 2000 Sydney Games as part of Jamaica’s 4x100m
silver medal winning relay team. Campbell will also run in
the 4x100m this year. Another ex Cougar almost earned a medal
as well as Aleen Bailey came up just short, taking 4th in
the event.
Three
runners emerged as the favorites for medals in the women’s
200m dash after the semifinal round of the 2004 Summer Olympics
in Athens. Two of those 3 runners are former Barton County
Cougars. Veronica Campbell and Aleen Bailey, both former Cougars
running for Jamaica, turned in the 2 fastest times of the
semifinals. In the process, Campbell bettered her own mark
of the fastest time in the world this year. The finals will
take place tomorrow at 3:20 pm (CDT). Just the 100m finals,
Campbell and Bailey give the former Cougars 25 percent of
the finals field. Former Cougars LaShauntea Moore (USA) and
Beverly McDonald (Jamaica) did not make the finals.
John Moffitt is making the most of his first trip to the Olympic
Games. Moffitt jumped his way into the finals with a big leap
on his 2nd attempt of the qualifying round while Walter Davis’
bid for an Olympic medal will have to wait four more years.
Davis didn’t get out of the preliminary competition,
placing 23rd overall in the event. The two former Barton County
Community College stars both jump for the United States. Moffitt
will jump in the finals of 2004 Summer Olympics to be held
Thursday afternoon.
Bernard
Williams had very little trouble advancing past the 1st 2
rounds and into the semifinals of the Men’s 200m dash
at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Williams, a 1999 graduate of
Barton County Community College, rolled to wins during his
1st 2 heats of the event with some of the best times posted
during the day. The semifinals will be run tomorrow with the
finals slated for Thursday. Williams and the other 2 USA runners
all advanced, giving the United State 2 semifinalist in the
event.
In
what has been an outstanding Olympics to date for former Barton
County Community College track and field stars, Derrick Brew
found a way into the records book Monday evening in Athens
at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Brew became the first American
former Cougar to win an individual medal during the Olympics
with his bronze medal in the 400m dash. Brew was part of an
American contingent that went 1-2-3. It is the first of what
looks to be a pair of Olympic medals for Brew, who will also
compete on the USA 4x400m relay team later in the Games.
Veronica Campbell made a statement in her quest for a 2nd
Olympic medal during the 2004 Summer Games in Athens by winning
both heats of her 200m races Monday. Campbell, running for
her native Jamaica, joins 3 other former alumni from Barton
County in the 200m semifinals to be run Tuesday. In addition
to Campbell, Aleen Bailey (Jamaica), LaShauntea Moore (USA),
and Beverly McDonald (Jamaica) are all semifinalist in the
event. That gives ex Barton track stars 1/4 representation
in the semis. The Cougars’ LaVerne Jones (Virgin Islands)
missed joining that list by the narrowest of margins.
It
was a familiar finish for Water Davis in the triple jump competition
in the Olympics. The former Barton County Community College
track star had advanced past the qualifying round of the 2004
Summer Games in Athens and into the finals, just as Davis
did in the Sydney Games in 2000. And just like in Sydney,
Davis came in 11th for the United States.
Veronica Campbell has her name all over the Barton County
Community College record book. Saturday afternoon in Athens,
Greece she once again did something no other Cougar had done
before her -- win an individual medal in the Olympics. Campbell
tunred that feat by capturing the bronze medal in the 2004
Summer Olympics in the 100m dash. Campbell ran a 10.97 --
the 2nd best time of her career -- to earn the bronze.
Derrick
Brew left little doubt about his place in the finals of the
men's 400m dash at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Brew, a former Barton County Community College track star,
won his semifinal heat Saturday to assure himself of a spot
in the finals Monday. He is one of 3 USA runner to earn a
spot in the finals. Brew will run on the 4x400m relay team
later in the Olympics as well.
Derrick Brew joined 3 other former Barton County Community
College Cougars with a good opening day of competition at
the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Brew breezed
to a win in his heat of the 400m quarterfinals, earning a
spot in Saturday’s semifinals. Brew joins Veronica Campbell
and Aleen Bailey (women’s 100m) as ex Cougars in the
semifinals as well as Walter Davis in the finals of the triple
jump after the opening day of competition.
Veronica
Campbell and Aleen Bailey have two important steps down on
what they hope is their way to an Olympic medal in the women’s
100m. Campbell and Bailey – both running for their homeland
of Jamaica – moved past the 1st round and the quarterfinals
Friday at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and into tomorrow’s
semifinal round. The finals will be held tomorrow as well.
LaVerne Jones wasn’t as fortunate, getting out of the
1st round but not advancing past the quarterfinals. Campbell
and Bailey’s presence in the 100m semis will give Barton
County Community College 2 former Cougars among the field
of 16 remaining.
It’s now official. LaShauntea Moore’s wait is
over. The Barton County Community College graduate knows she
will indeed be a part of the women’s 200m dash in just
less than a week at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Moore, who was already in Athens as part of the USA’s
4x100m relay pool, had been waiting word on Torri Edwards’
appeal. Edwards, who took 3rd in the US Olympic Trials to
Moore’s 4th place, had been banned for 2 years for testing
positive for the stimulant nikethamide in April. She appealed
that ban but on Tuesday the international Court of Arbitration
for Sport came down with its ruling, denying Edwards her spot
on the team and making way for Moore to join some familiar
faces in the women’s 200m. In fact, 5 former Barton
County track stars will now compete in the race. In addition
to Moore, Barton will have Veronica Campbell, Aleen Bailey,
Beverly McDonald – all from Jamaica – and Laverne
Jones (Virgin Islands) in the event that begins Monday.
It
was a hot Texas day in mid May. The final day of the 2002
NJCAA National Track and Field meet in Odessa. With the time
slipping past noon three Barton County Community College jumpers
were battling it out for the triple jump gold medal at the
meet. It was the same three that battled a couple days earlier
in the long jump. When it was over Leevan Sands had captured
the triple jump for Barton, doing so with a school record
jump of 57-5. Not far behind Sands was LeJuan Simon at 57-0.75
for the silver. John Moffitt took 3rd for the Cougars. That
was the final time the 3 would jump together as part of the
Barton County track and field team. It would not, however,
be the last time they competed with and against each other.
Over the past 2 years the trio battled several times in the
toughest NCAA Division I track conference in the nation with
Sands going to Auburn and Moffitt and Simon to LSU. Now all
3 will line up and jump in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Two of the trio will begin the quest for an Olympic medal
Friday with the triple jump. Sands and Simon will participate
in the event. All 3 will jump in the long jump, which gets
started Aug. 24.