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Hunter closes great career at IC4As

Aaron Hunter placed 24th on Saturday.

Results
PRINCETON, N.J. (May 14, 2011) — Aaron Hunter (Sharon Hill, PA/Academy Park) closed his collegiate career with a jump of 6.72 meters at the IC4A Championships on Saturday.

Held at Princeton University, the weekend-long event assembles the best talent from much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

The jump earned him 24th place, and the atypical result — Hunter won three long jump titles this outdoor season — was attributed to a nagging hamstring injury and strange conditions.

“I was having trouble trying to position myself on the runway in warm-ups,” he said. “On one of them, I didn't even touch the board.

He said he had a tough time getting loose, a fact exacerbated by the hard surface.

“That is a hard runway. I almost hurt my heel when I popped off my board,” Hunter said. “I was still feeling something in my hamstring as I was warming up trying to get my muscles right.

On his third leap, he fouled. Had he not crossed the line, the jump would have been one of the day's best, at least guaranteeing him a spot in the finals.

Curtis Beach of Duke won the event with a jump of 7.40 meters, but Hunter's performances throughout the spring would have put him right there. He offered a jump of 7.42 meters last month at the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Outdoor Track & Field Championships, and two weeks ago, he leapt 7.39 meters for the second time while performing at the Penn Relays.

“It took him a while to get loose,” head coach Ray Williams said. “His first jump wasn't as smooth as it usually is but he progressively got faster. The foul is what hurt him. That would've been the jump of the day, but nobody gets to know but us. He did it with class and dignity like he always does. He's a model student-athlete.”

In June, Hunter will enroll at Florida International University in Miami, Fla., where he will pursue his master's degree in sports medicine and athletic training. The 2011 recipient of Lincoln's Frank “Tick” Coleman Sportsmanship Award, his track days are far from over. He hopes to train in the temperate climate in preparation for next year's Olympic qualifiers.

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