UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State track and field team travels to Eugene, Oregon for the 2024 NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships. Competition at Oregon's Hayward Field is slated to run June 5-8 with six Nittany Lion entries primed to take on the best athletes in the country at this year's national meet.
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The 2024 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be broadcast live on the ESPN family of networks and ESPN+. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday will have select events broadcast on ESPN2 while Saturday's select events will air on ESPN. Individual live streams of each event will be available on ESPN+, and can be found at the link above.
The Nittany Lions' Cheickna Traore enters competition at the NCAA Championships following the greatest meet of his life at the 2024 NCAA East Region First Round competition. Traore achieved the Olympic Standard in the 200-meter dash, crossing the line in 19.93 as the top overall qualifier in the quarterfinal race, lowering his own school record and Ivory Coast national record. The superstar also helped Penn State's 4x400-meter relay team (Handal Roban, Pat Abel, Olivier Desmeules) advance to the NCAA Championships with a 44.00 anchor split. Traore finished just one spot out of a qualifying mark in the 100-meter dash as well, clocking a Penn State school record-setting 10.15.
A pair of men's 800-meter stars round out the men's contingent set for national competition for Penn State, as Roban and Yukichi Ishii will both toe the line against the best in the nation in the half-mile.
Running just her second-ever 10K, Florence Caron advanced to the NCAA Championships in the event as the first Nittany Lion to punch a ticket at this year's East Region First Round meet. Joining the two-time Big Ten Champ on the women's side is Hayley Kitching, the middle-distance star sophomore who is no stranger to NCAA competition. Kitching finished fourth in the nation in the 800-meters during indoor season and seeks to compete well against a strong field of runners once again at the outdoor championship meet.
THE COMPETITION
The Nittany Lions are set to compete in the following events on Wednesday:
- M 800m Semifinal (Final on Friday)
- M 200m Semifinal (Final on Friday)
- M 4x400m Semifinal (Final on Friday)
Thursday Events:
- W 800m Semifinal (Final on Saturday)
- W 10K Final
Friday Events
- M 800m Final*
- M 200m Final*
- M 4x400m Final*
Saturday Events
- W 800m Final*
* - Pending Semifinal qualification
FULL 2023-24 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD SCHEDULE
March 22-23 – UCF Knights Invite | Orlando, Fla.
March 28-30 – Raleigh Relays | Raleigh, N.C.
March 29-30 – Florida Relays | Gainesville, Fla.
Apr. 5-6 – Miami Invitational | Coral Gables, Fla.
Apr 13-14 – Bison Outdoor Classic | Lewisburg, Pa.
Apr. 19-20 – Virginia Classic | Charlottesville, Va.
Apr. 25-27 – Penn Relays | Philadelphia, Pa.
May 3 – Jim Thorpe Invitational | University Park, Pa.
May 10-12 – Big Ten Outdoor Championships | Ann Arbor, Mich.
May 22-25 – NCAA East Region Prelims | Lexington, Ky.
June 5-8 – NCAA Outdoor Championships | Eugene, Ore.
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