May 16, 2013
STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford learned Thursday that 35 track and field athletes have advanced to the NCAA West Regionals in Austin, Texas, on May 23-25.
The Cardinal will send 22 women and 13 men to the competition, one of two regionals in the country (the other is in Greensboro, N.C.). The top 48 marks from each half of the country are accepted into each regional. The top 12 in each region advance to the NCAA Championships June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore., creating a 24-participant field for each event.
Stanford has three No. 1 seeds: Kori Carter in the 100 hurdles and 400 hurdles, and Brianna Bain in the javelin. Carter is the world leader in the 400 hurdles at 54.21 and No. 7 in the world in the 100 hurdles (12.76). Both were school-record times set in her Pac-12 championship victories on Sunday at USC. The 400 hurdles time ranks No. 2 all-time among in-season collegiate performers. After the Pac-12 meet, Carter expected to focus solely on the 400 hurdles in NCAA competition, but those plans now include both hurdle events.
Bain, the 2012 NCAA runner-up and two-time Pac-12 champion, leads all collegians with a school-record 183-10, set at the Big Meet against visiting Cal on April 20.
The busiest Stanford athletes will be Carter, a junior who also will run on the 4x400 relay, and senior men's thrower Geoffrey Tabor, who will compete in the shot put and discus. He is the No. 11 seed in the discus.
Other Top 12 seeds for Stanford are Michael Atchoo (No. 2, men's 1,500), Justine Fedronic (No. 3, women's 800), Amy Weissenbach (No. 5, women's 800), Tyler Stutzman (No. 6, men's 1,500), Jules Sharpe (No. 6, men's high jump), Steven Solomon (No. 9, men's 400), Jessica Tonn (No. 11, women's 5,000), Rebecca Hammar (No. 12, women's discus), and the women's 4x400 relay. The relay is expected to consist of Carter, Fedronic, Carissa Levingston, and Kristyn Williams).
Stanford's Regional Qualifiers:
| WOMEN | |||
| Event | Name | Reg. Rank | 2013 Mark |
| 200 |