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02/28/17 | Track and Field
OREGON QUALIFIES 16 INDIVIDUALS AND THREE RELAYS FOR NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, LED BY EDWARD CHESEREK IN THE MILE, 3,000 AND 5,000 METERS
EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon track and field team has qualified 16 student athletes in 22 individual events as well as three relay teams for the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships on March 10-11 in College Station, Texas.
The top-ranked Women of Oregon will send 10 athletes in 13 events to Texas, as well as a 4x400-meter relay team and a distance-medley relay team, as they aim for their seventh NCAA Indoor title and second in as many years after winning the championship last season.
The Ducks' impressive sprinting trio of Hannah Cunliffe, Deajah Stevens and Ariana Washington will all run both the 60 and the 200 meters. Cunliffe set the collegiate record in the 60 meters this season (7.07) and is second in the 200 meters behind Stevens. Washington will look to add indoor titles to her resume after sweeping the 100 and 200 meters outdoors last season.
Three-time national champion Raevyn Rogers will try to add to her trophy shelf in the 800 meters after winning the event in both indoors and outdoors last year. Rogers is also slated to run both relays for the Ducks, joining Makenzie Dunmore, Elexis Guster and Stevens in the 4x400 and Lilli Burdon, Ashante Horsley and Katie Rainsberger in the DMR. The Ducks' currently own the collegiate record in the DMR (10:48.77).
Rainsberger, the standout freshman who took fourth at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, will run the 3,000 meters after taking over the NCAA lead (9:01.21). Rainsberger will be joined by Samantha Nadel and Alli Cash, making for a big scoring event for the Ducks.
NCAA leader Sasha Wallace will go for her first indoor national title in the 60-meter hurdles, and she will be joined by all-American Alaysha Johnson. Senior Maggie Schmaedick rounds out the list of entries for the Women of Oregon in the 5,000 meters after a huge performance at the MPSF Championships in Seattle last weekend.
The No. 3 ranked Men of Oregon enter the NCAA Indoor Championships with six athletes in nine events as they go for their fourth-straight indoor title and fifth overall.
Fifteen-time national champion Edward Cheserek will have a chance to make history as he goes for his 16th national title, which would be the most in NCAA history. He is entered in the mile after breaking the collegiate record last Sunday (3:52.01), as well as the 3,000 and 5,000 meters. Cheserek won indoor titles in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters as well as the DMR last season, completing only the second triple in NCAA history.
Sophomore Matthew Maton will join Cheserek in both the mile and the 3,000 meters to make both events huge scoring opportunities for the Men of Oregon, and he and Cheserek are slated to be joined by Cameron Stone and Mick Stanovsek in the DMR.
Senior transfer Kyree King will wrap his indoor career in the 60 meters for the Ducks, and junior transfer Damarcus Simpson will compete in the long jump after breaking the school record earlier in the season (8.01m/26-3.5). Freshman Braxton Canady qualified for the Championships in his first season as a collegiate in the 60-meter hurdles, where he qualified with a time of 7.74 seconds.
Senior Mitch Modin wraps up the entries for the Ducks in the heptathlon after qualifying at last weekend's MPSF Championships with a personal-best score of 7,474 points.
Oregon Entries – NCAA Indoor Championships
Men:
Edward Cheserek – Mile, 3000m, 5000m
Matthew Maton – Mile, 3000m
Kyree King – 60m
Braxton Canady - 60H
Damarcus Simpson – Long Jump
Mitch Modin – Heptathlon
DMR
Women:
Hannah Cunliffe – 60m, 200m
Deajah Stevens – 60m, 200m
Ariana Washington – 60m, 200m
Raevyn Rogers – 800m
Katie Rainsberger – 3000m
Samantha Nadel – 3000m
Alli Cash – 3000m
Maggie Schmaedick – 5000m
Sasha Wallace – 60H
Alaysha Johnson – 60H
4x400
DMR
The top-ranked Women of Oregon will send 10 athletes in 13 events to Texas, as well as a 4x400-meter relay team and a distance-medley relay team, as they aim for their seventh NCAA Indoor title and second in as many years after winning the championship last season.
The Ducks' impressive sprinting trio of Hannah Cunliffe, Deajah Stevens and Ariana Washington will all run both the 60 and the 200 meters. Cunliffe set the collegiate record in the 60 meters this season (7.07) and is second in the 200 meters behind Stevens. Washington will look to add indoor titles to her resume after sweeping the 100 and 200 meters outdoors last season.
Three-time national champion Raevyn Rogers will try to add to her trophy shelf in the 800 meters after winning the event in both indoors and outdoors last year. Rogers is also slated to run both relays for the Ducks, joining Makenzie Dunmore, Elexis Guster and Stevens in the 4x400 and Lilli Burdon, Ashante Horsley and Katie Rainsberger in the DMR. The Ducks' currently own the collegiate record in the DMR (10:48.77).
Rainsberger, the standout freshman who took fourth at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, will run the 3,000 meters after taking over the NCAA lead (9:01.21). Rainsberger will be joined by Samantha Nadel and Alli Cash, making for a big scoring event for the Ducks.
NCAA leader Sasha Wallace will go for her first indoor national title in the 60-meter hurdles, and she will be joined by all-American Alaysha Johnson. Senior Maggie Schmaedick rounds out the list of entries for the Women of Oregon in the 5,000 meters after a huge performance at the MPSF Championships in Seattle last weekend.
The No. 3 ranked Men of Oregon enter the NCAA Indoor Championships with six athletes in nine events as they go for their fourth-straight indoor title and fifth overall.
Fifteen-time national champion Edward Cheserek will have a chance to make history as he goes for his 16th national title, which would be the most in NCAA history. He is entered in the mile after breaking the collegiate record last Sunday (3:52.01), as well as the 3,000 and 5,000 meters. Cheserek won indoor titles in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters as well as the DMR last season, completing only the second triple in NCAA history.
Sophomore Matthew Maton will join Cheserek in both the mile and the 3,000 meters to make both events huge scoring opportunities for the Men of Oregon, and he and Cheserek are slated to be joined by Cameron Stone and Mick Stanovsek in the DMR.
Senior transfer Kyree King will wrap his indoor career in the 60 meters for the Ducks, and junior transfer Damarcus Simpson will compete in the long jump after breaking the school record earlier in the season (8.01m/26-3.5). Freshman Braxton Canady qualified for the Championships in his first season as a collegiate in the 60-meter hurdles, where he qualified with a time of 7.74 seconds.
Senior Mitch Modin wraps up the entries for the Ducks in the heptathlon after qualifying at last weekend's MPSF Championships with a personal-best score of 7,474 points.
Oregon Entries – NCAA Indoor Championships
Men:
Edward Cheserek – Mile, 3000m, 5000m
Matthew Maton – Mile, 3000m
Kyree King – 60m
Braxton Canady - 60H
Damarcus Simpson – Long Jump
Mitch Modin – Heptathlon
DMR
Women:
Hannah Cunliffe – 60m, 200m
Deajah Stevens – 60m, 200m
Ariana Washington – 60m, 200m
Raevyn Rogers – 800m
Katie Rainsberger – 3000m
Samantha Nadel – 3000m
Alli Cash – 3000m
Maggie Schmaedick – 5000m
Sasha Wallace – 60H
Alaysha Johnson – 60H
4x400
DMR
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