May 11, 2001

Indianapolis, Indiana - Sophomore Amy Fehrman (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles) captured the high jump title at the Midwestern Collegiate Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships at IUPUI's Michael A. Carroll Track and Soccer Stadium on Thursday.

Despite Fehrman's winning jump of 5-feet, 3-inches, UIC placed sixth with 24 points.

UW-Milwaukee won the overall title with 204 points followed by Detroit (179), Loyola (106), Butler (67), Wright State (34) and UIC.

Junior Monieka Thompson (Chicago, Ill./Steinmetz) garnered a second-place finish in the 800-meter run (2:12.57) while the 4x400 relay team set a new school record with a time of 3:59.85.

On the men's side, senior Barry Somerville (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles) was named the Outstanding Performer for the running events with victories in both hurdle events and ran the anchor leg of UIC's first-place 4x400 relay team.

UIC finished fourth overall with 69 points while UW-Milwaukee claimed its second consecutive team championship with 173 points followed by Butler (163), Detroit (144), UIC and Loyola (45).

Somerville broke both records in the hurdles events previously set by UW-Milwaukee's Nate Andrews last season. He rolled to the 110-meter hurdles title with a blazing time of 14.73 and broke Andrews' record by a second and a half in the 400-meter hurdles (53.06).

Somerville also ran the anchor leg of the 4x400 relay team that cruised to a first-place finish of 3:19.17. Other members of the relay team include junior Danny Smith (Chicago, Ill./St. Patrick) and seniors Chris Stanley (Chicago, Ill./Lyons Township) and Neto Alexander (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad/Queen's Royal College).

Alexander also picked up a victory in the 200-meter dash (21.88) along with a second-place mark in the 100-meter dash (10.93).

Stanley earned a third-place finish in the 800-meter run (1:53.63) while junior Joe Kepinski (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren) finished second in the pole vault (12"6').

UIC will be back in action next Friday at the Keeler Invitational at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.