WILLIAMS FAILS TO QUALIFY.(SPORTS)

Byline: Staff reports

Former University at Albany assistant track coach Shana Williams, who had a lifetime-best long jump of 23 feet in the Olympic Trials, fouled on each of her three attempts Thursday to qualify for the long jump final.

Williams, who worked with the track team and acted as an academic adviser at UAlbany during the 1994-95 school year, was a close friend of UAlbany track star Kimberly Toone, who was killed in a car accident in March.

If Williams had managed a jump of 21 feet, 11 inches, she would have qualified for the finals. A disappointed Williams said she jumps 22 feet in practice all the time.

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