Junior Cameron Williams of the Boston University men’s track & field team will compete in the 200 meter dash at the 2016 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships beginning this Friday at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. LSU’s men have now cracked the final Top 10 at the NCAA Indoor Championship in seven of the last eight seasons with the women achieving that status in 13 of the last 14 seasons since 2002. “It’s my first indoor nationals, so I’m just going to run my hardest”. This is Southerland’s third appearance in this event at the NCAA Championships, previously competing in 2015 and 2014.
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Colorado, a distance running powerhouse, stacks the long-distance events with top runners – five competed between the men’s and women’s squads this weekend – and doesn’t typically compete for overall team championships, which requires a team filled out with sprinters, jumpers, throwers and those specialized in multievents.
UK’s women’s 4x400m relay of Jasmine Mitchell, Kiah Seymour, Destiny Carter and Ariah Graham, which ran 3:31.50 – the second fastest time in school history during a Bronze Medal Performance at the SEC Championships – will conclude the meet as the No. 6 seed. ESPN3 will live stream the event, and ESPN2 will carry a tape delay of the meet at 7 p.m. Sunday. The No. 10-ranked Lady Tigers made it a pair of top-10 team finishes for LSU as they totaled 18 points to tie for ninth place in the competition. This year’s group is seeded eighth with a time of 11:57.52 (converted up from 11:49.92), also registered during the Open New England Championships.
Herrmann recorded a time of 9 minutes, 58.08 seconds to advance to nationals. She also earned New England Alliance honors with a third-place finish in the high jump at 1.58m and a seventh-place effort in the 60m hurdles. Farrell, Cartwright, Carpinello and Serrao tallied the nation’s 10th-best time of 10:04.05 last weekend during the Tufts Last Chance Meet. Schuetz is the 11-fastest 800-meter runner in the field with a seasonal-best and indoor personal-best time of 2:04.05 to her credit this season.
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Herrmann claimed the 3,000-meter title at the inaugural MIAA indoor championships last month. The event will feature 12 teams with times separated by fewer than 15 seconds.
