RICHMOND, Ky. -- Former Tennessee Tech women’s basketball
standouts Allison
Price and Meagan
Lyons continued to leave their mark in a different Tech sport,
as the converted track stars both set school records at the OVC
championships in Richmond, Ky.
Price set two school records during prelims Friday, and Lyons
established a third, as both became the first Tech sprinters to
advance to the OVC Finals.
Price posted a 58.64 in the 400-meter dash, breaking the
previous school record of 58.91 set in 2002 by Brelinda Johnson. On
Saturday, Price couldn’t match that time, and finished eighth
in 1:02.89.
The former starting point guard for the Golden Eagle women’s
basketball team, Price raced to a time of 25.28 in the 200-meter
dash later in the day Friday, finishing 13th in the prelims. That
time narrowly eclipsed the previous school record of 28:32 set in
2004 by Bethany Burney.
Lyons, who also started four years on the women’s basketball
team, was fifth in the qualifying race of the 100-meter hurdles
Friday with a school-record time of 14.33 seconds. That was just
over a half-second better than Carmen Tucker’s 2001 school
mark of 14.85. In Saturday’s finals, Lyons finished eighth in
15.67.
