Nine Athletes to Represent E8 at NCAA Outdoor Championships
The Empire 8 Athletic Conference will be sending six women and three men's track and field student-athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships hosted by Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio May 22-24.
Alfred junior
Miasia Hillman will be seeded sixth in the 100-meter dash. Her seed time of 11.99 seconds -- which broke her own school record -- came when she won a 100-meter title at the ECAC outdoor track and field championship. The fastest seed time (11.80) belongs to Wisconsin-La Crosse sophomore Meg Heafy.
Stevens Institute of Technology sophomore
Amy Regan qualified in the 5000 meter run. She is ranked fifth with a time of 16:44.66.59, nineteen seconds behind the top qualifier. Regan qualified last year for the 2013 outdoor meet in the 5,000 meter and placed tenth and most recently earned All-America honors with a fifth place finish in the 5000 meter at the 2014 indoor national meet.
Stevens sophomore
Gladys Njoku is tied for the fourth best mark in the high jump with a cleared height of 1.71 meteres. Njoku competed in the indoor natinals and finished second with a mark of 1.75 meters.
Utica sophomore
Sarah Wiatr is making her second consecutive appearance in the NCAA's in the triple jump. She currently holds the eighth best mark in the country after posting a school-record mark of 12.00 meters in the triple jump at ECAC's this past weekend.
Ithaca junior
Emilia Scheemaker returns to the NCAA Championships for the fourth time. She competed in the indoor and outdoor triple jump as a sophomore and the indoor triple earlier this year. Scheemaker, who owns the
indoor and
outdoor Ithaca school records in the event, has the 13th-best performance in the nation. She twice hit 11.84 meters this season.
Nazareth sophomore
Taylor Pierson will be making her fourth NCAA appearance in the long jump. She competed in the indoor and outdoor long jump as a freshman and recently competed in the indoor long earlier this year. She qualified with the 12th best mark in the 22-athlete field with a leap of 5.71 meters.
Alfred junior
Sean Locker will be seeded 16th the javelin with a seed mark of 59.77 meters, a school record he posted in winning a title at the Empire 8 Championship. Union College freshman Michael Goldstock has the best seed mark (65.60 meters) in the javelin throw.
Utica freshman
Rayshawn Scott qualified for the NCAA's for the first time in his career as he becomes the first male in school-history to qualify in the triple jump. His school-record leap of 14.47 meters this past weekend at the ECAC Championship was good enough for 16th in the country.
Devin Cornelius of St. John Fisher College will make history this week, becoming the program's first-ever participant in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. This marks the second time Cornelius has qualified for NCAAs. Back in March, he became Fisher's first-ever participant in the NCAA Division IIII Indoor Track and Field Championships and placed 11th overall in the heptathlon with 4,836 points. The sophomore is seeded 11th overall in the decathlon for the Outdoor Championship after placing as the runner-up on Friday at the 2014 ECAC Outdoor Championship in Troy. He posted personal-best times in five of the 10 events (100 meter dash, 110-hurdles, 1,500, discus and javelin) and finished with a College-record 6,493 points.
NCAA Women's Accepted Entries
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