[dc-zoo]

That is totally Awesome!!

[AnnaZ]

I couldn't believe it. Pretty freaky how it happened, too, and she was definitely stunned -- she had had a personal-best run just to qualify.

[RonDog]

See also, from www.usatf.org:

JOANNA HAYES
Events: 100H, 400H
Height: 5-5
Weight: 123
PRs: 100H - 12.67 (2000), 400H - 54.57 (1999)
Born: December 23, 1976 in Riverside, Calif.
Current Residence: Riverside, Calif.
High School: John W. North (Calif.) '95
College: UCLA '99
Coach: Bob Kersee
Agent: Greg Foster
Club: unattached

Career Highlights: 1999 NCAA 400 hurdles champion; 3rd at 1999 USA Outdoor 400H; 1995 USA Juniors and Pan Am Junior 100 hurdles champion.

Hayes narrowly missed a spot on the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team, placing 4th in the 400 hurdles and 5th in the 100 hurdles. Hayes has a history of overcoming injury. She was eighth in the 1998 NCAA 100m hurdles (13.50 - +3.0w) despite running with a strained right hamstring that prevented her from competing in the 400m hurdles. She injured the hamstring while winning the 100m hurdles at the Pac-10 Championships. as a sophomore in 1997, Hayes suffered a hyperextended right knee on the first day of competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Although the injury kept her from competing in the 100m hurdles, Hayes ran the anchor leg on UCLA's 4x100m relay team that placed sixth (44.76), and she placed seventh (57.92) in the final of the 400m hurdles.