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DELEWARE, OHIO -- American Southwest Conference programs McMurry, Texas Lutheran, Mississippi College and Concordia Texas will have representatives in the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday-Saturday at Selby Field and George Gauthier Track. The event is hosted by Ohio Wesleyan.
Team previews below:
McMurry
ABILENE, Texas – Eight men, two relays teams along with four women and one relay team are headed to the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships Thursday through Saturday to represent McMurry University in Delaware, Ohio.
The McMurry men, ranked No. 1 in the nation by the USTFCCCA for all seven regular season polls send both the 4X100-meter relay and the 4X400-meter relay teams, and will be represented in seven different events.
The women's team will run a 4X100-meter relay as well as have representatives in the 100-meter dash and the long jump.
The War Hawks' men placed fourth in 2007, won the national title in 2008, placed second in 2009 and were eighth last season. All in all, McMurry has sent competitors to 12 national meets. The women placed 54th out of 77 competing teams last year and have second and fourth place finishes to their credit since Barbara Crousen arrived as head coach, and along with then men's program has sent competitors in each of its 12 seasons.
Texas Lutheran
SEGUIN, Texas – Seven Texas Lutheran women's track and field student-athletes will compete at the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
The championships, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University, will take place Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Selby Field & George Gauthier Track in Delaware, Ohio.
The Bulldogs will have student-athletes competing in the 100 meters, the 200, the 4x100 relay, the triple jump, the long jump, and the pole vault.
Junior Destiney Jones (Garland/Naaman Forest) is ranked second nationally in the triple jump entering the championships. She will compete Friday at 5:20 p.m. (All times listed are Eastern Daylight times.)
Jones, an All-American in the 2008 indoor and outdoor 4x400 relay teams, has a season-best jump of 12.23 meters (40.125 feet) in the triple jump. Melissa Norville of Illinois College is the event's top qualifier with a leap of 12.27 meters (40.256 feet).
TLU freshman Monique Anderson (Houston/Dobie) has qualified in three events: the 100, 200 and the 4x100 relay. Anderson, the American Southwest Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Year, enters the championships with the nation's 11th-fastest time in the 100 (12.02 seconds) and the 13th-fastest time in the 200 (24.78).
Anderson runs the 200 preliminary at 8 p.m. Thursday and the 200 final at 4:15 p.m. Saturday. The 100 preliminary is set for 7:45 p.m. Friday with a 3:10 p.m. start for Saturday's final.
The 4x100 relay runs its preliminary at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and final at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
TLU will take four relay members and an alternate to the championships. Anderson, the anchor leg, will be joined on the relay by freshman Kenya Knowles (Pearland/Pearland), junior Shyra Walker (Cuero/Cuero), and either junior Devin Evans (Houston/Hightower) or freshman Taylor Boston (Houston/King).
TLU's relay enters the championships with a national ranking of fifth. The Bulldogs have a season-best time of 47.40. Top-ranked Methodist brings a season-best time of 46.62 into the meet.
Prior to the 6:30 p.m. Thursday preliminary for the 4x100, Evans will compete in the long jump final at 3 p.m. Evans, the ASC champion in the event, is ranked seventh in the long jump with a mark of 5.78 meters (18.963 feet).
Junior pole-vaulter Ligia Bolivar (Sugar Land/Travis) competes at 5 p.m. Thursday. Bolivar is ranked seventh in the pole vault with a season-best clearance of 3.77 meters (12.37 feet).
Mississippi College
DELAWARE, OH - Mississippi College senior Liz Laubenberg has qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships beginning Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Selby Stadium on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University.
Laubenberg qualified for the 400m Hurdles with a time of 102.57, which placed her 19th overall. If Liz advances to the finals, she will compete on Saturday at 3:55 p.m.
Concordia Texas
Austin, Texas – Freshman high jumper Chris Randle will be the first student-athlete – male or female – to represent Concordia University Texas at the NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships. The competition will be hosted by Ohio Wesleyan on the George Gauthier Track from May 26-28.
Randle, a native of Temple, Texas who is also a member of the school's men's basketball team, eclipsed the NCAA provisional standard three times this spring and recorded a collegiate-best leap of 6-feet, 9.75-inches at the Trinity Alumni Classic on Apr. 1. The mark currently ranks tied for eighth nationally among NCAA Division III student-athletes and first among freshmen.
After finishing ahead of 10 NCAA Division I student-athletes, including five from Big 12 institutions, at Baylor's Michael Johnson Dr. Pepper Classic, Randle also made history for Concordia by becoming the program's first American Southwest Conference champion in any event. He won the high jump at the league meet by clearing 6-8, which bettered the second-place finisher by two inches.
Randle will compete in his premier event on Friday, May 27 at 4:10 p.m. Central and can garner All-America accolades with a top-eight finish. His participation will mark the first time in school history that Concordia will be represented at the NCAA Division III Championships in two sports during the same academic year, as the baseball team won the ASC title earlier in the month and earned an automatic bid to the West Regional.
-Previews Courtesy Sports Information Departments