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News Release
Contact: Sarah Hauck, 704 337-2585
haucks@queens.edu  

Queens runner will not run on national television

CHARLOTTE, N.C., (February 22, 2008) — Daniel Kanyaruhuru (Phoenix, Ariz./Paradise Valley) was set to run in the 2008 AT&T USA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College in Boston, on Saturday, Feb. 23 in the men’s 3000m run, but he will not make it this year. A winter storm has cancelled all flights into Boston.

The meet is scheduled to air on Sunday, Feb. 24 starting at 5pm on ESPN2.

Queens’ Kanyaruhuru may also appear on ESPN during the same broadcast as he competed in the U.S. Cross Country Championships on February 16 in San Diego, Calif. ESPN will air a 15-minute segment of the race in which Kanyaruhuru finished 21st putting him in the pool of athletes who could be selected to the U.S. national cross country team.

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, coed, Presbyterian-affiliated liberal arts university in the heart of historic Charlotte serving approximately 2,250 undergraduate and graduate students through its College of  Arts & Sciences, McColl School of Business, The Pauline Lewis Hayworth College and the Presbyterian School of Nursing.

Queens University of Charlotte’s Sesquicentennial year, celebrated during the 2006-2007 academic year, marked the 20th anniversary of its Royals co-ed athletics program.  Established in 1987, Queens’ NCAA Division II program continues to offer diverse, exciting, intercollegiate athletics competition to its student-athletes through its 16 men’s and women’s sports teams and 65-acre, state-of-the-art sports complex facility.

For more information, please visit www.queens.edu/athletics. 
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