UNDER THE BANNER
What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
MORANT ADVANCES: Florida A&M sprinter Sheldon Morant qualified for the 2003 World Championships in the 100-meter dash Saturday with a third-place finish in the Jamaican National Championships. Morant, a member of FAMU's all-American 4x100 relay team, ran a personal-best time of 10.25 in the Jamaican finals. Morant finished fourth in the 100 meters at the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships with a time of 10.73 seconds and ran a 10.49 in prelims at the NCAA Championships, .03 of a second from making the finals.
BCSIDA TO MEET: The Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCSIDA) will hold its annual meeting Monday, June 30 at the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) Annual Workshop in Cleveland. The workshop is set for Sunday, June 29 thru Wednesday, July 2 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. BCSIDA President Bill Hamilton, SID at South Carolina State, will preside over the meeting which is expected to draw participants from over 50 HBCUs and all four black college conferences. Carol Hudson, current SID at Old Dominion University and former SID at Hampton University and former BCSIDA president, currently serves on the Executive Board of CoSIDA.
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