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Towson's Top 10: Instant Impact is Voted #9

TOWSON, Md. - Over the course of the next several weeks, TowsonTigers.com will count down the top 10 achievements of Towson University athletic teams and student-athletes for the 2009-10 year. Check back each Monday and Wednesday as we reveal this year's "Towson's Top Ten."

#9 – Instant Impact

If Tiger fans are searching for an example of making an instant impact, all they have to do is look at what junior Ashley Adams did this year as a member of the Tiger track and field team.

To put it simply – she rewrote the Towson record books for the hurdles events.

A transfer from Morgan State, the Plainfield, N.J. native turned in an impressive debut at the Bucknell Heptagonal Indoor Track Meet on January 23. She scored 30 of the team's 75 points as the Tigers finished fourth.

She set the school record with first place efforts in the 60-meter dash (7.84) and the 60-meter hurdles (8.64) while also winning the long jump event.

That was just the beginning.

After breaking her own record in the 60-meter hurdles at the ECAC Championships with a time of 8.58 seconds, Adams set her sights on the outdoor records.

It didn't take long for her to make a mark in that ledger, setting the school record in the 400-meter hurdles at the Towson Invitational on March 27. She also posted the second-fastest time in school history in the high hurdles with a time of 14.04 seconds and won the long jump with a distance of 18 feet, 3 inches.

The following week saw Adams break the school record in the 110-meter high hurdles, posting a first place time of 13.85 seconds.

In late April, Adams earned CAA Track Athlete of the Week honors after rewriting her own record in the 400-meter hurdles at the Penn Relays with a time of 1:00.08. She also helped the Tigers set a program record in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:52.16.

There was more to come from Adams at the CAA Championships where she helped Towson place third, its highest team finish since joining the league in 2002.

Named as the Co-Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet, Adams captured both hurdles events in record-setting fashion. She set a CAA record in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 13.66 seconds before setting a school record in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in 59.92 seconds, just four one-hundredths of a second shy of the CAA record. She became the first Towson hurdler to run the intermediates in under a minute.

Adams also posted a third place effort in the long jump and ran the final leg of the 4x100 relay team, which set a new program mark with a time of 47.14 seconds.

For her final effort of the 2009-10 year, Adams broke her own record in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the East Regional of the NCAA Division I Championships at North Carolina A&T. She placed 29th in the event with a time of 59.60 seconds, but failed to advance.

She also competed in the 100-meter high hurdles and had a 34th-place finish with a time of 13.79 seconds.

As a result of her outstanding first season as a Tiger, Adams was honored as the CAA's Co-Female Track Athlete of the Year. When the award was announced, Coach Roger Erricker said, “It is extremely well-deserved after the season Ashley had, especially after the performance she had at the CAA meet.”

Based on Adams' performances during the 2009-10 season, the Tiger track and field record book will be changing quite a bit more in 2010-11.
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