ITHACA, N.Y. — Eight members of the Cornell women's track and field team will be competing in the East Preliminary of the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships at the University of Kentucky May 25-27.
The student-athletes competing will be doing so in hopes of punching a ticket to the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., June 7-10. The top 48 declared athletes and top 24 declared relays in states east of the Mississippi River (with the exception of Illinois) were accepted into the East Preliminary. The top 48 declared athletes in the western states will compete at the same time at the West Preliminary at the University of Texas. The top 12 in each event at the two Preliminary Round sites will advance to the NCAA Finals in Eugene to complete the final round field sizes of 24.
Leading the way for Cornell will be senior tri-captain
Adrian Jones, who has qualified in the 100 and 200 meter dashes. Jones is seeded 43rd in the 100 (11.55) and 36th in the 200 (23.52). Jones will also be a critical member of the 4x100 meter relay squad, which is seeded 22nd and coming off of a new school record-setting performance of 45.01 at the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships. Also on that relay will be sophomore
Kat Quigley, freshman
Brittany Stenekes and junior
Ellen Shepard.
Junior tri-captain
Taysia Radoslav will enter the 400 meter hurdles preliminary with the 15th best time at (57.91) while classmate and fellow tri-captain
Shannon Hugard will be competing in the 1500 meter run (30, 4:22.11). Sophomore
Briar Brumley, seeded 17th, will be running in the 3000 meter steeplechase (10:13.03) and junior
Kate Gulbrandsen will be competing in the high jump (48, 5'7.75").
Live results will be available
here. The meet
will be streamed on SEC all three days of competition.
A full list of entries and seedings can be found
here.
Cornell Entries (seed)
Thursday, May 25:
4:30 PM – Women's 400 Hurdles First Round:
Taysia Radoslav '18 (15)
5:30 PM – Women's 1500 First Round:
Shannon Hugard '18 (30)
6:30 PM – Women's 100 First Round:
Adrian Jones '17 (43)
Friday, May 26:
4:30 PM – Women's High Jump:
Kate Gulbrandsen '18 (48)
6:00 PM – Women's 100 Quarterfinal: Jones
7:00 PM – Women's 400 Hurdles Quarterfinals: Radoslav
7:30 PM – Women's 200 First Round:
Adrian Jones '17 (36)
8:20 PM – Women's 3000 Steeplechase Quarterfinals:
Briar Brumley '19 (17)
Saturday May 27:
6:00 PM – Women's 4x100 Relay Quarterfinal:
Cornell – Kat Quigley '19, Jones, Brittany Stenekes '20, Ellen Shepard '18 (22)
6:30 PM - Women's 1500 Quarterfinal: Hugard
7:35 PM - Women's 200 Quarterfinal: Jones
