Hokie ClubWith a 61'2 3/4" (18.66m) effort in the shot put, Virginia Tech track and field administrative assistant Cleopatra Borel-Brown took fifth place at the International Association of Athletics Federation/VTB Bank World Athletics Final on Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany.
After marking at 58'11 1/2" (17.97m) in her first attempt before launching her best effort of the meet, 61'2 3/4" (18.66m) in the second round. She scratched her third attempt and finished up the competition with a 59'2 1/4" (18.04m) mark.
Borel-Brown is currently ranked 14th on the world's 2007 outdoor shot put list and her best performance this year ranks as the world's 58th-longest recorded mark, 62'0 1/2" (18.91m).
She won the bronze medal in the shot put this summer 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 is in 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.