Women's Indoor Track and Field | 3/10/2020 11:37:53 AM
First-year standouts Eshone Cofield-Jackson and Kelsey Wands of the Utica women’s track and field team will represent the Empire 8 at the 2020 NCAA Division III Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 13-14, which takes place at JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, NC.
Cofield-Jackson will compete in the 200-meter dash at nationals. The prelims take place at 5:20 p.m. on Friday and if she advances, will race in the championship at 4:20 p.m. Saturday. She enters the meet with the 12th fastest time in all of Division III, 25.35 seconds, set in a winning effort at last weekend’s All-Atlantic Region Indoor Track & Field Championships from Nazareth College.
Cofield-Jackson was named Empire 8 Championship Indoor Track Athlete of the Meet on Feb. 29 after winning the 60-meter (7.97 seconds) and 200-meter dash (25.55 seconds) events, in addition to leading the Pioneers to a speedy time of 4:06.42 in the 4 x 400-meter relay. Cofield-Jackson was also runner-up in the 400-meter dash (1:00.44), as Utica placed second as a team at the league championship. She is a two-time Empire 8 Track Athlete of the Week.
Wands is set to compete in the long jump at nationals after qualifying with the 19th best mark in the country at 5.59 meters, set in a winning effort at the 2020 Empire 8 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 29. Last weekend, Wands placed fourth in the long jump at the All-Atlantic Region Indoor Championship at Nazareth. She earned Empire 8 Field Athlete of the Week honors on Jan. 27. The long jump takes place at 12:50 p.m. on Friday.
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