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BLACKSBURG – Former Virginia Tech standout Kristi Castlin finished second in the finals of the 100-meter hurdles Friday night at the U.S Olympic Team Trials being held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, and will be headed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Olympics later this summer.

Castlin, who will be participating in her first Olympics, qualified for the finals after winning her semifinal heat earlier in the evening. In that heat, she ran the event in a time of 12.77 seconds.

In the finals, Castlin ran the event in 12.50 seconds, coming in second behind former Clemson standout Brianna Rollins, who won the race with a time of 12.34 seconds. Nia Ali, a former Southern California star, came in third in a time of 12.55.

Former Tech star Queen Harrison missed on her bid to qualify for her second Olympics (2008). The former three-time national champion won her semifinal heat in a time of 12.78 seconds to advance to the finals, but in the finals, she came in fourth with a time of 12.57 seconds – just two hundredths of a second behind Ali.

Castlin, a native of Douglasville, Georgia, was a seven-time All-American as a hurdler at Tech. She concluded her career in 2010.

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