INDIANAPOLIS - A talented group of women's sprinters and
hurdlers will vie for national titles at the 2007 AT&T USA
Indoor Championships, February 24-25 at the Reggie Lewis
Track & Athletic Center in Boston. The final event of USA Track & Field's 2007 Indoor Visa
Championship Series, the AT&T USA Indoor
Championships will be televised on Sunday, February 25,
from 4-6 p.m. Eastern Time on ESPN 2.
Hot hurdles
The hurdles provides a lineup of some of the country's top
hurdlers. Danielle Carruthers, who led the 2005 Visa
Championship Series for most of the indoor campaign,
enters the meet with a seasonal best of 7.94 seconds,
which she ran in finishing third to her coach and agent, Gail
Devers, and Olympic gold medalist Joanna Hayes at the
100th Millrose Games. Carruthers also was the runner-up
(8.10) at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on January 27.
2004 NCAA Outdoor 110m hurdles champion Nichole
Denby, who won the Tyson Invitational in 8.02 seconds, also
is entered, along with 2004 Olympic Games 400m hurdles
fourth-place finisher Sheena Johnson.
The most intriguing entrant is undoubtedly six-time USA
indoor champion, American record holder, and four-time
World Indoor Championships gold medalist Gail Devers.
The 40-year-old Devers, who won an historic 60 dash-60
hurdles double at the USA Indoor Championships in 2004,
is coming off a win February 2 at the 100th Millrose Games
and is slated to compete in Paris Friday night. She will
make a decision on whether she will compete in Boston
after traveling back to the U.S. on Saturday.
Bowen-Daigle, Hooker headline women's 60m sprint
Two of the hottest U.S.women's sprinters this indoor
season will fight for supremacy in the women's 60 meters
when Angela Bowen-Daigle and Marshevet Hooker square
off in Boston.
The inaugural Indoor Visa Championship Series winner in
2005, Daigle-Bowen earned a big victory on February 2 in
the Hershey's women's 60m dash at the 100th Millrose
Games. Bowen-Daigle's winning time of 7.25 seconds was
just good enough to defeat former University of Texas
standout Marshevet Hooker, who was the runner-up in 7.32
seconds.
A multi-time NCAA champion while at Texas, Hooker won
the Visa women's 60 meters at the Reebok Boston Indoor
Games on in 7.24 seconds, and was victorious in 7.26
seconds on February 9 at The Tyson Invitational.
Others to watch include former UCLA standout Hasani
Roseby, who posted the fastest 60m time by an American
this indoor season with her win at Flagstaff, Ariz., on January
20 in 7.20 seconds. Roseby also owns the third and fourth
fastest times by an American this season of 7.22 and 7.23
seconds. Others to keep an eye on include 2004 Olympic
4x400m relay gold medalist Moushaumi Robinson and
2002 USA Outdoor long jump champion Brianna Glenn,
who was fifth at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games in 7.33
seconds.
For more information on the AT&T USA Indoor
Championships, including status of entered athletes, visit
http://www.usatf.org/events/2007/USAIndoorTFChampionshi
ps/
For more information on the Visa Championship Series,
visit http://www.visachampionshipseries.com