Fall 2000 Zip 40's Fest

On Monday November 13, 2000 the annual "Zip 40's Fest" was conducted with the University of Akron Men's and Women's Track and Field squad. It was conducted indoors in the JAR arena. 40 yard dashes were run football style with timing beginning on movement and/hand leaving race surface. One person at time ran for the time. At this year's event times were done by automatic and hand times. Hand times were kept to better reflect traditional football 40yds timing. Consistent hand times were .39 down to .24 faster than electronic times. These differences came as a result of how each person set off the automatic timing pad including how their hands and movements were read by the timer.

Here are the top two times for men and women:

Le Shaunte Edwards 4.50 FAT 4.10 hand time (last year 4.18 hand time)

Chad Bullett 4.51 FAT / hand time 4.2 (last year 4.18 hand time)

Lucretia Corbin 4.95 FAT / 4.6 hand time

Deanna Norflee 5.14 FAT / 4.8 hand time