STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford will be represented by nine individuals and two relay teams at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships March 9-10 in College Station, Texas.
The championships fields – 16 in each individual event and 12 in the relays -- were announced Wednesday, based on best marks. They are final except for medical scratches.
This is the seventh consecutive year that Stanford qualified both distance medley relay teams. This is the ninth consecutive qualifying year for the men's DMR. Seven women and two men advanced as individuals.
For the women, three advanced in the 3,000 meters – Christina Aragon, Vanessa Fraser, and Fiona O'Keeffe. Olivia Baker advanced to her third indoor 800, Elise Cranny races her first NCAA indoor mile, and throwers Valarie Allman and Lena Giger advanced to their first indoor championship meet.
Two Stanford men race in their first NCAA indoor meet: reigning NCAA outdoor 5,000 champ Grant Fisher in the 3,000, and Steven Fahy in the 5,000.
The DMR lineups that qualified were, for the women: Aragon, Gaby Gayles, Baker, and Cranny. For the men, it was Sean McGorty, Isaiah Brandt-Sims, Hari Sathyamurthy, and Fisher. The lineups that Chris Miltenberg, Stanford's Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field, could be different. If Stanford used the same lineups, its total number of athletes would be eight women and five men – 13 total.
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Stanford's NCAA qualifiers:
Women
Valarie Allman, weight throw (70-3 ½, 21.42m)
Christina Aragon, 3,000 (No. 11, 9:01.86)
Olivia Baker, 800 (No. 11, 2:04.00)
Elise Cranny, mile (No. 3, 4:31.29)
Vanessa Fraser, 3,000 (No. 6, 8:59.23)
Lena Giger, Shot put (No. 3, 58-4, 17.78m)
Fiona O'Keeffe, 3,000 (No. 13, 9:04.77)
Distance medley relay (No. 5, 10:58.93)
Men
Steven Fahy, 5,000 (No. 14, 13:44.82)
Grant Fisher, 3,000 (No. 3, 7:48.56)
Distance medley relay (No. 3, 9:26.91)
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Stanford's' NCAA Indoor Championships Schedule:
Friday, March 9
3:15 p.m. PT (5:15 p.m. CT): Women's shot put trials and final (Lena Giger).
3:50 p.m. PT (5:50 p.m. CT): Women's mile semifinal (Elise Cranny).
5:25 p.m. PT (7:25 p.m. CT): Women's 800 semifinal (Olivia Baker).
6:05 p.m. PT (8:05 p.m. CT): Men's 5,000 final (Steven Fahy).
6:45 p.m. PT (8:45 p.m. CT): Men's distance medley relay final.
7 p.m. PT (9 p.m. CT): Women's distance medley relay final.
Saturday, March 10
2:20 p.m. PT (4:20 p.m. CT): Women's mile final.
2:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. CT): Women's weight throw trials and final (Valarie Allman).
3:40 p.m. PT (5:40 p.m. CT): Women's 800 final.
4:10 p.m. PT (6:10 p.m. CT): Men's 3,000 final (Grant Fisher).
4:25 p.m. PT (6:25 p.m. CT): Women's 3,000 final (Christina Aragon, Vanessa Fraser, Fiona O'Keeffe).
