The NCAA Championships for Indoor Track will take place on March 11th and 12th in Birmingham, Alabama. The meet will stream live on ESPN3 beginning at 11 AM Eastern Time.
The Hokies qualified ten athletes and the Women's Distance Medley Relay for a total of 11 qualifiers which is the most of any school in the ACC per Hokiesports.
Day 1 Participants Men's Start List, Women's Start List:
Jacob Spotswood - #7 Seed in Heptathlon with a season's best of 5,835 points. Start time 10:00 AM with the 60m. Long Jump at 11 AM, Shot Put at 12:15 PM, and High Jump at 1:30 PM.
Alexios Prodanas - #13 Seed in Weight Throw with a season's best of 22.12m. Start time 4:00 PM.
Rachel Baxter - #1 Seed in Pole Vault with a season's best of 4.61m at the ACC Championships. The #2 seed is Lisa Gunnarsson from LSU who has a season's best of 4.51m. Rooting for Rachel to make a run at a National Championship. Start time 6:45 PM.
Julia Fixsen - #3 Seed in Pole Vault with a season's best of 4.48m. The 3 through 6 seeds are all really close together in their seasons bests so it will be interesting to watch.
Rebecca Mammel - #6 Seed in Weight Throw with a season's best of 23.08m. The weight throw will be a flight of 16 participants where the top 9 advance to the Final. Start time 7 PM.
Sara Killinen - #14 Seed in Weight Throw with a season's best of 22.21m.
Lindsey Butler - #1 Seed in the 800m with a season's best of 2:01.23 - Prelims will be on 3/11 at 7:45 PM and Lindsey will be in Heat 2. The top 3 from each heat plus the next 2 fastest make the final to be held on 3/12 at 7:30 PM.
Women's Distance Medley Relay (1200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m) - #2 Seed with a season's best of 10:53.21 - Final Only so the ladies will be competing against Notre Dame, Oregon State, Stanford, Oregon, Kentucky, Ole Miss, NC State, Washington, Arkansas, UVA, and BYU for the title. Arkansas has the #1 time in the NCAA this year with a 10:51.21 that they ran back in late-January. Start time 8:45 PM.
Day 2 Participants: Men's Start List, Women's Start List
Heptathlon Continued - 60m Hurdles at 10:30 AM, Pole Vault at 11:30 AM, and 1000m at 3:30 PM.
Antonio Lopez Segura - #9 Seed in 3000m with a season's best of 7:43.64. Final only. Start time 5 PM.
Chauncey Chambers - #9 Seed in Triple Jump with a season's best of 16.29m. Top 9 Advance to the final. Start time 3:45 PM.
Victoria Gorlova - #7 Seed in Triple Jump with a season's best of 13.63m. Top 9 advance to the final. Start time 6:45 PM.
In case anyone is interested in looking at any all of the top 50 times this year in any particular event: here
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