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Titans Qualify for National Track Championships

5/20/2012 8:57:00 AM

Official NCAA Division III Championships Web Sites -   Men   |   Women

A total of 11 women and two men will represent Illinois Wesleyan University in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships May 24 to 26 at Fritz B. Burns Stadium in Claremont, Calif.

Senior Lauren Alpert will compete in three individual events (long jump, 200, 400) and run a leg on the 4x400 relay team as the Titan women's team looks to return to the top of the awards stand. The Illinois Wesleyan women won the outdoor title in 2010 and tied for the national championship in 2008. IWU finished in a tie for 30th last season and tied for seventh in 2009.

The complete list ot Titan women's qualifiers, with events, qualifying mark and current national rank:

- Senior Lauren Alpert - long jump - 5.83 meters (No. 8)
Alpert - 200 meter dash - 24.74 seconds (No. 17)
Alpert - 400 meter run - 55.34 seconds (No. 3)
- Junior Elise Anderson - 10,000 meter run - 36:17.80 (No. 19)
- Freshman Meridith Beird - pole vault - 3.77 meters (No. 11)
- Freshman Allie Boudreau - heptathlon - 4399 points (No. 16)
- Junior Tara Clemens - 800 meter run - 2:09.60 (No. 6)
- Junior Lauren Rock - 400 meter run - 55.68 seconds (No. 9)
- Junior Rachael Williams - 10,000 meter run - 36:06.04 (No. 9)
- 4x100 relay team - 47.39 seconds (No. 11)
(freshman Lexia Swope, senior Brooke Bernardoni, junior Jenna Loynachan, senior Jessica Christy)
- 4x400 relay team - 3:45.75 (No. 3)
(Christy, Alpert, Clemens, Rock)

IWU men's qualifiers, with events, qualifying mark and current national rank:

- Senior Steven Kirk - hammer throw - 56.37 meters (No. 18)
- Senior Tyler Saunders - 800 meter run - 1:51.43 (No. 11)

Schedule of events for IWU participants, all times Pacific:

EVENT (entrant) PRELIMS FINALS
Long jump (Alpert) Thurs. 3 p.m.
4x100 relay Thurs. 4 p.m. Sat. 2:30 p.m.
200 (Alpert) Thurs. 5:45 p.m. Sat. 5:10 p.m.
10,000 meters
(Williams, Anderson)
Thurs. 6:20 p.m.
4x400 relay Thurs. 9 p.m. Sat. 6:20 p.m.
Hammer throw (Kirk) Fri. 2:05 p.m.
400 (Alpert, Rock) Fri. 5:50 p.m. Sat. 3:40 p.m.
Women's 800 (Clemens) Fri. 7:10 p.m. Sat. 4:30 p.m.
Men's 800 (Saunders) Fri. 7:25 p.m. Sat. 12:30 p.m.
Pole vault (Beird) Sat. 12:30 p.m.
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