Three Cards qualify for NCAA prelims
Published 10:26 pm Thursday, May 19, 2016
Three Lamar track athletes are set to compete in the NCAA West Preliminary Track and Field Championships, the prelude to the national meet, May 26 at the University of Kansas’ Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence.
Verity Ockenden will compete in her second straight regional 1,500 meters. She fell just three spots short of the mark needed to qualify for the 2015 nationals in Eugene, Oregon, although she turned in a Lamar-record 4 minutes, 19.95 seconds. Athletes who finish in the top 12 at the prelims advance to nationals.
Ockenden also will run the 5,000 meters. She won that event at the Stanford Invitational with a season-best 16:14.81.
Lamar senior Alex Dunbar will race in the 10,000 after coming in second in the Southland Conference championship meet. Freshman Thai Williams has qualified in the long jump, seeded 45th with a jump of 19 feet, 7.5 inches.
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I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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