Site: Buffalo Stadium, Buffalo, NY
Event: 1998 NCAA Outdoor Championships

Longe Garners All-America Status in Final Performance as a Wolverine

Buffalo, NY -- In the final meet of Michigan's most decorated female track and field athlete ever, Tania Longe (Sellebakk, Norway/St. Olav) became an All-America performer for the second time in her illustrious collegiate career.

Longe finished seventh in the heptathlon with 5364 points and gave the Michigan women's track squad their initial points of the 1998 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Longe closes out her Maize and Blue career as a nine-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-America. Also competing for Michigan during day two of competition was sophomore sprinter Maria Brown (Kingston, Jamaica/Immaculate Conception). Brown did not qualify for the semi-finals in the 100-m dash after finishing eighth in her heat with a time of 12.09.

Notes:

-- Longe's other All-America campaign came when she finished 9th in the heptathlon at the 1995 NCAA Outdoor Championships with 5333 points.

1998 NCAA OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS (Day Two)

100-METER DASH
trials (heat 1)
1) Fergueson, Debbie (Georgia)	11.54
8) Brown, Marian (Michigan)	12.09

10,000-METER RUN
1) Skieresz, Amy (Arizona)	33:04.12
9) Kampfe, Elizabeth (Mich.)	34:35.56

HEPTATHLON
1) Lott, Tiffany (BYU)		5982 pts.
7) Longe, Tania (Michigan)	5364 pts.

* NCAA Automatic Qualifying Time

# NCAA Provisional Qualifying Time

! Michigan Record

@ Meet Record

^ Field Record