Hokie ClubVirginia Tech track and field administrative assistant Cleopatra Borel-Brown will compete Sunday at the 11th annual International Association of Athletics Federations World Track and Field Championships in Osaka, Japan. Borel-Brown is currently ranked 11th in the world and has the world's 13th-longest recorded shot put this year, 62'0 1/2" (18.91m). The qualifying round begins at 10:30 a.m. local time with finals at 7:45 p.m.
Borel-Brown won the bronze medal in the shot put at the XV Pan American Games for Trinidad and Tobago. She registered a 59'9 1/2" (18.22m) mark in a pressure-packed fifth round for her best effort of the meet.
Borel-Brown owns Trinidad and Tobago's national record and won the bronze medal at last year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, and at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia.
After serving as a volunteer throws coach at Tech for four seasons, Borel-Brown enters her third year as the track and field program's administrative assistant. Borel-Brown graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a degree in interdisciplinary studies/health psychology in 2002.
Please check the IAAF World Track and Field Championships home page for results.