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NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Five Empire 8 student-athletes have made their way out to Naperville, Ill. for the 2013 NCAA Division III Indoor Women’s Track & Field Championships held at North Central College’s Al. B Carius Track and Recreation Center.
The Empire 8 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 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 preliminaries Friday at 3:45 and 5:40 p.m. Central Standard Time. The finals are scheduled for 1:40 and 3:10 p.m., respectively, on Saturday. 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 participated in the indoor high jump and the outdoor heptathlon. She will be competing in the high jump at 11 a.m. Saturday and the pentathlon starting at 10:15 a.m. Friday. 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 at 2 p.m. Saturday after setting a school record of 12.00 meters in the event at the ECAC Indoor Championships.
Duran earned a spot in the weight throw event as the No. 8 seed out of 15 female competitors. She enters the event with a school-record toss of 17.58 meters (57 feet, 8 inches) which was set at the NYC Division III Challenge on February 15 at the New York Armory. The women’s weight throw preliminary and finals will begin at 4 p.m. on the 8th.
Pierson, a freshman for the Golden Flyers, earned a trip to the national meet after a competitor scratched the event, opening a spot in the long jump field. Pierson's event will be contested Friday at 11 a.m.