UTSA senior distance runner Katie Poindexter
UTSA athletes earn Southland Conference weekly honor
(Feb. 5, 2002)--Senior middle distance runner Katie Poindexter and junior multievents specialist Justin Youngblood were named the Southland Conference (SLC) track Athletes of the Week.
Poindexter clocked a conference-best time of 2:13.62 in the 800-meter run at the Texas Tech Indoor on Jan. 25. Hard work has made her one of the conference's top 800-meter runners. A member of the UTSA cross country team last fall, she placed fourth in the SLC Indoor Championships in the 800-meters with 2:15.58. Her top cross country finish as a sophomore was 24th at the Texas Invitational. In 1999, Poindexter clocked a 20.17 for 31st place at the SLC Cross Country Championships. In 2000, she turned in a time of 20.44 for a 31st place finish.
Poindexter came to UTSA from Seymour High School where she was a three-year state qualifier in cross country and track and field. She was the Seymour "Most Valuable Performer" in track and cross country for three consecutive years and placed second in the 800-meter at the state 2A meet. Poindexter, a National Honor Society member, led her team to the state cross country meet in 1997.
Youngblood, a native of Victoria and a UTSA engineering major, set a UTSA record with an NCAA provisional qualifying leap of 7-1 1/4 in the high jump in Lubbock. Youngblood won the 55-meter hurdles with a 7.69. He captured the 2001 SLC Indoor Championship in the pentathlon with 3,842 points. At the SLC Indoor Meet he was on the 4x100-meter relay team that won third in the SLC Indoor with a 3:17.46.
He finished third in the high jump at 6-8.75 and had an indoor season-best of 6-10.75 at Houston on Jan. 12. Last spring he placed fourth at the 2000 SLC Outdoors Championships with a 47.43, eighth in the long jump (23-9) and fourth in the high jump (6-9.75).
At Goliad High School, Youngblood was a state champion in the 400-meter and won the title of track and field "1998 Athlete of the Year." As the team captain of the Tigers, he had a personal best of 47-flat in the 400-meter, jumped 6-10 in the high jump and 24-3 in the long jump. Youngblood was a receiver in football and won all-area and all-district awards in both track and football.
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