With the conclusion of the meet, the Carleton College men’s track and field team has officially reached the end of its 2016 outdoor season. Neal and Weiler both punched their tickets to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, OR on June 8-11.
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Brown finished fourth with a personal-best time of 13.52 seconds at the NCAA East Regional in Jacksonville, Fla., to advance. The 72-hole individual champion will be crowned on Monday and the top eight teams will advance to the match-play team championship. Vanderbilt (+5), Texas (+7), Southern California (+10), LSU (+11), OR (+12), Arkansas (+15), Arizona State (+17), California (+18), Oklahoma State (+19), IL (+19), Kentucky (+23), SC (+25), Florida (+26), Louisville (+27) and Oklahoma (+27) all advanced. Teschuk placed fifth at the national meet in the steeplechase as a junior one year ago. Reminiscent of Trey Culver’s jump-off at last year’s meet, Adkins immediately cleared 2.16m/7-1 on his first attempt to earn the tiebreaker and the 12th qualifying spot. The Tigers advanced to the 30-team field via a third-place finish at the NCAA Stillwater (Okla.) Regional.
There will be nine Tide athletes (four men, five women) competing in middle distance and distance races.
Senior Matt NeSmith, who had the team’s best round of the day, saved some of his best golf at the most opportune time. She was fourth in the in the 2015 NCAA 100 final and second in the long jump.
Wright, who advanced through the prelims past year en route to All-American status at the NCAA finals, captured a bid in the 10,000-meter run as as runner-up with a time of 34 minutes, 21.95 seconds. We are going to have to play better than we did at the NCAA Regional. Junior Lakan Taylor is slated to compete in the women’s pole vault for an opportunity to qualify for her second NCAA Outdoor Championships.
That performance has earned Wright a First-Team All-SEC honor by the league’s head coaches and a No. 10 individual ranking nationally in the latest Golfstat power rankings heading into the weekend. The men’s team posted 138.10 points while the women scored 93.21 points.
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Several Northern Illinois University track & field student-athletes made outstanding efforts to outperform their seedings at the NCAA West Preliminary Round on Friday at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kan., but unfortunately none of the Huskies qualified for the upcoming NCAA Championships.
