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LINCOLN?Priscilla Lopes, who recently earned her eighth NCAA All-American for the Nebraska women’s track and field team, claimed third place Saturday during the finals of the women’s 100-meter hurdles competition at the 2006 Canadian Track and Field Championships.
Lopes entered the weekend with the world’s seventh-fastest time for the hurdles this season and clocked in at 12.78 on Saturday to finish behind fellow Canadian Olympians Perdita Felicien (12.64) and Angela Whyte (12.69). The performance marked the fourth consecutive year that Lopes garnered a top-three finish in her national meet. She posted a career-best silver-medal placing in 2005.
The Whitby, Ontario, native easily qualified for the finals on Friday by winning the first of two semifinal heats with a time of 12.84. Lopes has now posted sub-13 second times in 12 consecutive races dating back to April’s Drake Relays preliminary round, including the Nebraska-record mark of 12.60 that she notched during the finals at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
The Canadian Championships has been only one of a handful of competitions during a busy summer for Lopes. She also has competed in three meets on the European circuit over the last month, including top-five finishes among world-class fields in Saint-Denis, France (fourth) and Rome, Italy (fifth). She added a seventh-place finish at the 31st Athletissima meet in Laussane, Switzerland.
Next up for the Huskers this summer is two-time NCAA champion Arturs Abolins, who will compete in the men’s long jump at the European Championships on Aug. 8 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Abolins will represent his home nation of Latvia in the meet before returning to Lincoln for his senior season at Nebraska.
Another current Husker, redshirt freshman Daniel Christensen, will participate at the World Junior Championships Aug. 15-20 in Beijing, China. Christensen is slated to compete for Denmark in the men’s 4x400-meter relay. Three incoming Nebraska recruits also are scheduled for action?Jaime Ryder (Canada) in the men’s 110-meter hurdles; Meagan Wheatley (Australia) in the women’s heptathlon; and Scott Wimms (United States) in the men’s 4x100-meter relay.