WICHITA – Destiny Masters advanced to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the high jump and pentathlon, the NCAA announced Tuesday evening.
 
The junior from El Dorado, Kan. is the first female Shocker since Breanne Borman and Nikki Larch-Miller in 2017 to qualify to the NCAA Indoor Championships and is the 18^th female Shocker overall to advance.
 
The top 16 athletes on the NCAA performance list in each event earn a spot at the championship meet. Masters ranks ninth in the nation in the pentathlon with her school record mark of 4,211 points and ties for 11^th in the nation in the high jump, clearing 1.86m/6'1.25" to win the American Athletic Conference title and tie the Wichita State record on Feb. 24.
 
She joins Borman (2016, 17), Larch-Miller (2017), Tanya Friesen (2013) and Koya Webb (2004) as the fifth Shocker to advance in the pentathlon and is the third-ever female to make it in the high jump after J'Lynn Ledesma (2013) and Connie Long (1986, 89).
 
Masters is one of four female athletes in Wichita State history to qualify to the NCAA Indoor Championships in multiple events in the same year, joining Aliphine Tuliamuk (2012, 13: 3,000 meters/5,000 meters), Desiraye Osburn (2006: mile/3,000 meters) and Ineta Radevica (2002: long jump/triple jump).
 
The NCAA Indoor Championship pentathlon will take place on Friday, March 8, beginning at 8:50 a.m. CT, and the high jump will be contested the following day at noon CT in Boston, Mass.