INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country Committee has announced the participants for the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships preliminary competitions.
Among the qualifiers are 27 Penn State athletes across 20 events. The East Preliminaries are scheduled for May 26-29 at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas will host the West Preliminary. The qualifiers out of these two regions will compete in the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships held June 9-12 in Eugene, Oregon.
The Nittany Lions will be represented in 13 women's competitions and 7 men's competitions. Two Penn State athletes qualified in two separate events, as Kathryn Munks will compete in the women's 5,000m run and 10,000m run and Yasmin Brooks will compete in both the 100m and 400m hurdles.
In addition to the automatic regional qualifiers, Noah Swaby and Maddie Holmberg will automatically qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the decathlon and heptathlon respectively, as the top-12 ranked participants in each region have qualified to advance to the final round of competition.
FULL LIST OF PENN STATE QUALIFIERS:
Women's 800m – Victoria Tachinski
Women's 1500m – Danae Rivers
Women's 5000m – Kathryn Munks
Women's 10000 – Kathryn Munks
Women's 100h – Yasmin Brooks
Women's 400h – Antoinette Bradley, Yasmin Brooks
Women's High Jump – Carlie Wilson
Women's Pole Vault – Katie Jones, Hailey Zurich
Women's Long Jump – Maddie Holmberg, Breana Gambrell
Women's Shot Put – Mallory Kauffman
Women's Discus – Piper Klinger
Women's Hammer – Gianna Rao
Women's Javelin – Madison Smith
Women's 4x400m Relay
Men's 800m – Evan Dorenkamp, Domenic Perretta
Men's 110h – Sincere Rhea
Men's Pole Vault – Luke Knipe
Men's Shot Put – Lucciano Pizarro, Ben Peterson
Men's Discus – David Lucas, Tom Bojalad
Men's Hammer – Tyler Merkley, Henry Zimmerman
Men's Javelin – Mark Porter, Chris Fredericks, Kevin Bartosh
The complete list of participants is available on the following website.
For more information regarding the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships, log on to NCAA.com/trackandfield