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Wednesday, May 24
Sacramento, CA
All Day
Rice University
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NCAA Champs-West Preliminary
Women’s T&F Sends 10 to NCAA West Prelims
5/23/2023 3:57:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
HOUSTON – The Rice women's track and field team will have 10 athletes representing the Owls at this week's NCAA West Preliminaries in Sacramento, Calif.
The Owls are coming off one of the best showings in program history at the 2023 Conference USA Outdoor Championships, where the Owls were crowned conference championships for the first time since 2016. Rice finished with 187 points, the most in program history and third most in C-USA history, while also scoring in each of the 21 events.
Rice will have several event champions from the C-USA Championships compete this week including Tara Simpson-Sullivan (hammer throw) and Alyssa Balandran (1500m champion, competing in 800m). Eliza Kraule (heptathlon champion) will also be competing in the high jump.
The NCAA West Preliminary meet is one of two regional events, which serve as the first round of the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Athletes gain entry into the competition by having one of the top-48 best marks of the region (East or West) in their respective events. In order to advance to the final round in Austin, Texas, an athlete must finish among the top-12 (per region) in their respective events.
SCHEDULED COMPETITORS
Thursday (May 25) Running events are prelims
100m Dash – Kennedy Gamble
200m Dash – Gamble
800m Run – Alyssa Balandran, Taigen Hunter-Galvan
400m Hurdles – Savannah Simms
Shot Put – Erna Gunnarsdottir
Hammer Throw – Tara Simpson-Sullivan
Javelin – Mckyla Van der Westhuizen
Saturday (May 27) All finals for running events
High Jump – Josie Taylor, Eliza Kraule
Triple Jump – Ginnie Okafor
The Owls are coming off one of the best showings in program history at the 2023 Conference USA Outdoor Championships, where the Owls were crowned conference championships for the first time since 2016. Rice finished with 187 points, the most in program history and third most in C-USA history, while also scoring in each of the 21 events.
Rice will have several event champions from the C-USA Championships compete this week including Tara Simpson-Sullivan (hammer throw) and Alyssa Balandran (1500m champion, competing in 800m). Eliza Kraule (heptathlon champion) will also be competing in the high jump.
The NCAA West Preliminary meet is one of two regional events, which serve as the first round of the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Athletes gain entry into the competition by having one of the top-48 best marks of the region (East or West) in their respective events. In order to advance to the final round in Austin, Texas, an athlete must finish among the top-12 (per region) in their respective events.
Thursday (May 25) Running events are prelims
100m Dash – Kennedy Gamble
200m Dash – Gamble
800m Run – Alyssa Balandran, Taigen Hunter-Galvan
400m Hurdles – Savannah Simms
Shot Put – Erna Gunnarsdottir
Hammer Throw – Tara Simpson-Sullivan
Javelin – Mckyla Van der Westhuizen
Saturday (May 27) All finals for running events
High Jump – Josie Taylor, Eliza Kraule
Triple Jump – Ginnie Okafor
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Distance
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Hurdles
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Throws
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Jumps
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Javelin
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