WICHITA, Kan. — Four Wichita State track & field
student-athletes travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the
Arkansas Last Chance meet Friday, March 2.
The meet gives student-athletes one last opportunity to
improve their event times and marks in hopes of making the NCAA Indoor
Championships, held March 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho.
Seniors Todd McKown, Lawson Montgomery, Dylan Hartnett and
Audacia Moore will run in the meet that starts at noon Friday at the University
of Arkansas Randal Tyson Track Center.
McKown and Montgomery will run in the men's 60-meter
hurdles. Hartnett will compete in the men's 200 meters and Moore in the women's
200 meters.
Typically, the nation's top 16 athletes in each event advance
to the NCAA meet. Shocker junior Aliphine Tuliamuk automatically qualified for
the NCAA Indoor Championships in the women's 5,000 meters earlier this season.
McKown won the men's 60-meter hurdles title at the MVC
Indoor Championships last weekend in Cedar Falls, Iowa. His season-best time of
7.89 ranks tied for 41st on the 2011-12 NCAA Division I Indoor Qualifier List.
His personal best is 7.85, which ranks second all-time at WSU.
Montgomery ran a personal best 7.88 in the event at the
SPIRE NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Invitational and ranks tied for
36th overall on the national qualifying list. He finished second to
McKown in the event at the MVC Indoor Championships.
Moore ran a season-best 24.62 at the Varsity Apartments
Invitational earlier this season in the 200 meters. Her personal best time in
the event is 24.13, which is the current WSU school record.
Hartnett's top time of the season in the 200 meters came at
the MVC Indoor Championships. He won the event in a personal best 21.69. The
200-meter time ranks fourth in the Midwest Region this season and among Wichita
State's all-time top 10.
The men's 60-meter hurdles race is scheduled to begin with
preliminaries at 5:15 p.m. and the final at 6:40 p.m. The women's 200 meters
begins at 7:15 p.m., followed by the men's 200 meters at 7:30 p.m.
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