Empire 8 Women's Track & Field to be Represented in Seven Events at NCAA Indoor Championships
NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- The NCAA Division III Men's and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced Monday the participants in the 2013 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.
For each woman’s individual event contested, including the pentathlon, the top 15 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested, the top 10 declared relay teams, one per institution, were accepted into the competition. The championships will be held March 8-9 at North Central College in Naperville, Ill.
The Empire 8 Athletic Conference will be represented by three Ithaca College student-athletes (Jenn Randall, Amanda Rissmeyer and Emilia Scheemaker), one student-athlete from Stevens Institute of Technology (Alian Duran) and one student-athlete from Nazareth College (Taylor Pierson).
Randall, a senior, returns to the NCAA Championships for the third time. She competed in the indoor mile run and the outdoor 800-meter run and 1,600 relay as a junior. Randall will compete in the mile run and the 800-meter run. She had season-best performances of 4:55.88 and 2:14.38 in the events. Randall set the 800 school record twice this season.
Rissmeyer will be making her fourth outing at the NCAA Championships. In 2010, she competed in the outdoor high jump. During her junior season, Rissmeyer competed in the indoor high jump and the outdoor heptathlon. She will be competing in the high jump and pentathlon. Rissmeyer has season-best numbers of 1.69 meters in the high and 3,366 points in the multi.
It will be Scheemaker’s first trip to the national meet. She will be competing in the triple jump after setting a school record of 12.00 meters in the event on Friday at the ECAC Indoor Championships.
Duran, a senior, returns to the national stage for the second time. She comepted in the outdoor hammer throw in 2012. Duran will be compeiting in the weight throw and had her season-best, school record throw of 17.58 meters at the NYU Fastrack Challenge in New York City in mid-February.
Pierson, was ranked 18th nationally after winning the long jump title at the ECAC Championship at the New Balance Armory in New York City with a school-record leap of 5.51 meters (18 feet, 1 inch). It initially appeared that her distance fell one centimeter short of competing this weekend, but a scratch by one of the competitors ahead of her opened up a spot in the field.
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