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Southern Illinois University
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NCAA West Regional
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15 Salukis qualify for NCAA West Regional
05/17/2018 | 4:43:00 | Track and Field
The Southern Illinois track and field team will send 15 student-athletes to compete in a combined 10 events at the 2018 NCAA West Preliminary Round, hosted by Sacramento State University. The three-day event begins on May 25 and concludes on May 27.
The Saluki women's team will send nine athletes to the Regional while the men's team will send six to the event, which will take place at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif.
The top-48 individual and top-24 relay declarations within the East Region and West Region earned berths to their respective preliminary meet. Combined events (Heptathlon and Decathlon), are not contested at the preliminary sites.
The Saluki women will be led by a contingent of sprinters in Shafiqua Maloney, Tyjuana Eason and Bri'Anna Branch who will each compete in multiple events.
Maloney will run the 200m and the 400m dashes as well as running a leg of the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Eason and Branch both qualified for the 100m and 200m dashes. Eason is slated to run a leg of both the 4x100 and the 4x400 relays while Branch will run the anchor leg of the 4x100.
Also competing for SIU's women will be Mesha Newbold (400m hurdles), Genesis Ewell (4x100, 4x400 relays), Chrissa Harris (4x400 relay), A'veun Moore-Jones (shot put), Sian Person (shot put) and Shauniece O'Neal (hammer throw).
Junior Ricky Hurley will be the only member of the Saluki men's team competing in multiple events as he qualified for the regional meet in the discus, hammer throw and shot put. He is the only male thrower in NCAA Division IÂ to qualify for a regional meet in all three events.Â
Joining Hurley at the West Regional will be Warren Hazel (400m), Luke Horton (800m), Marcellus Fletcher (triple jump), Nate Dyer (hammer throw) and Jared Kern (shot put). Kern ranks third in the region in the shot put while Hazel ranks 13th in the 400m dash.
Dyer, Ewell, Fletcher, Moore-Jones, Newbold, Person and O'Neal are all first time qualifiers while Branch, Eason, Harris, Horton, Hurley, Kern and Maloney will all make their second appearances at the regional meet. Hazel qualified in the 400m for the third time in his career.
Since the two-region format began in 2010, SIU has now sent a total of 192Â student-athletes (83 men, 109 women) to compete at the first-round championships, an average of 21.3 qualifiers per season.
The top 12 competitors from each event in the West Regional will advance to the 2018 NCAA National Championships June 6-9 at Historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
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The Saluki women's team will send nine athletes to the Regional while the men's team will send six to the event, which will take place at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif.
The top-48 individual and top-24 relay declarations within the East Region and West Region earned berths to their respective preliminary meet. Combined events (Heptathlon and Decathlon), are not contested at the preliminary sites.
The Saluki women will be led by a contingent of sprinters in Shafiqua Maloney, Tyjuana Eason and Bri'Anna Branch who will each compete in multiple events.
Maloney will run the 200m and the 400m dashes as well as running a leg of the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Eason and Branch both qualified for the 100m and 200m dashes. Eason is slated to run a leg of both the 4x100 and the 4x400 relays while Branch will run the anchor leg of the 4x100.
Also competing for SIU's women will be Mesha Newbold (400m hurdles), Genesis Ewell (4x100, 4x400 relays), Chrissa Harris (4x400 relay), A'veun Moore-Jones (shot put), Sian Person (shot put) and Shauniece O'Neal (hammer throw).
Junior Ricky Hurley will be the only member of the Saluki men's team competing in multiple events as he qualified for the regional meet in the discus, hammer throw and shot put. He is the only male thrower in NCAA Division IÂ to qualify for a regional meet in all three events.Â
Joining Hurley at the West Regional will be Warren Hazel (400m), Luke Horton (800m), Marcellus Fletcher (triple jump), Nate Dyer (hammer throw) and Jared Kern (shot put). Kern ranks third in the region in the shot put while Hazel ranks 13th in the 400m dash.
Dyer, Ewell, Fletcher, Moore-Jones, Newbold, Person and O'Neal are all first time qualifiers while Branch, Eason, Harris, Horton, Hurley, Kern and Maloney will all make their second appearances at the regional meet. Hazel qualified in the 400m for the third time in his career.
Since the two-region format began in 2010, SIU has now sent a total of 192Â student-athletes (83 men, 109 women) to compete at the first-round championships, an average of 21.3 qualifiers per season.
The top 12 competitors from each event in the West Regional will advance to the 2018 NCAA National Championships June 6-9 at Historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
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