AUSTIN, Texas – The Stanford track and field teams begin competition at the three-day NCAA West Preliminary Round on Thursday at University of Texas.
The top 12 placers in each of the nation’s two regionals -- the other is in Jacksonville, Fla. -- advance to the NCAA Championships June 10-13 in Eugene, Oregon.
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Meet Schedule
Thursday: Field events, 10 a.m. PT; Running events 2:30 p.m. PT
Friday: Field events, 10 a.m. PT; Running events, 3 p.m. PT
Saturday: Field events, 10 a.m. PT; Running events, 4 p.m. PT
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Stanford has advanced 32 athletes – 16 men and 16 women – to the meet.
Stanford has one No. 1 seed, women’s collegiate 5,000-meter leader Jessica Tonn. Other top-five qualifiers are Elise Cranny (No. 3, women’s 1,500), Claudia Saunders (No. 3, women’s 800), Dylan Duvio (No. 4, men’s pole vault), and Erik Olson (No. 4, men’s 5,000).
The Cardinal will be represented in 11 men’s events (six track, five field) and 10 women’s (six track, four field) at the Prelims. Last year, Stanford had 29 individual qualifiers, in 10 men’s events and seven women’s.
Including redshirt freshmen, the number of Stanford NCAA qualifiers in their first seasons of eligibility is 13 – seven men and six women.
The event with the most Stanford athletes is the women’s 800 with Olivia Baker, Maddy Berkson, Claudia Saunders, and Malika Waschmann. Also, there are three Cardinal each in the men’s 5,000 (Olson, Sean McGorty, and Jack Keelan) and women’s 1,500 (Cranny, Rebecca Mehra, and Molly McNamara).
There are 14 All-Americans still competing for Stanford: seven men and seven women. Of those, the highest individual national finishers were Saunders, who was second in the 2014 NCAA outdoor 800, and Cranny, the 2015 NCAA indoor 3,000 runner-up.
* * *Stanford Schedule
(All times Pacific)
Thursday
11:30 a.m.: Men’s high jump – Flight 2: Dartis Willis II
3 p.m.: Men’s 400 hurdles prelim – Heat 3: Jackson Shumway.
3:30 p.m.: Women’s 1,500 prelims – Heat 3: Elise Cranny, Rebecca Mehra, Molly McNamara.
4 p.m.: Men’s 1,500 prelims – Heat 2: Thomas Coyle; Heat 4: Justin Brinkley.
5:20 p.m.: Women’s 400 prelims – Heat 6: Kristyn Williams.
6:10 p.m.: Women’s 800 prelims – Heat 1: Claudia Saunders; Heat 5: Olivia Baker; Heat 6: Maddy Berkson, Malika Waschmann.
6:35 p.m.: Men’s 800 prelims – Heat 5: Luke Lefebure.
7:40 p.m.: Men’s 10,000 prelim – Garrett Sweatt.
Friday
10 a.m.: Women’s discus – Flight 3: Valarie Allman, Rebecca Hammar.
4 p.m.: Men’s shot put – Flight 1: Tristen Newman.
4 p.m.: Women’s 400 semifinal.
5 p.m.: Women’s 800 semifinal.
5:15 p.m.: Men’s 800 semifinal.
5:45 p.m.: Men’s 400 hurdles semifinal.
6:25 p.m.: Men’s 200 prelims – Heat 6: Isaiah Brandt-Sims.
6:50 p.m.: Women’s 3,000 steeplechase – Heat 2: Danielle Katz.
Saturday
10 a.m.: Men’s javelin – Flight 2: Andrew Rondema.
11 a.m.: Men’s pole vault – Flight 2: Dylan Duvio.
11:30 a.m.: Women’s triple jump – Flight 3: Marisa Kwiatkowski.
3 p.m.: Women’s javelin – Flight 2: Victoria Smith.
4 p.m.: Women’s shot put – Flight 2: Lena Giger.
4 p.m.: Men’s triple jump – Flight 2: Jaak Uudmae; Flight 4: Darian Brooks.
4:30 p.m.: Women’s 1,500 semifinal.
4:45 p.m.: Men’s 1,500 semifinal.
5:50 p.m.: Men’s 200 semifinal.
6:05 p.m.: Women’s 5,000 prelim – Heat 1: Vanessa Fraser, Jessica Tonn.
6:45 p.m.: Men’s 5,000 prelim – Heat 2: Jack Keelan, Sean McGorty, Erik Olson.
7:25 p.m.: Women’s 4x400 relay – Heat 3: Stanford.