Baylor's track and field team completed a solid second day at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds with five more qualified for the NCAA Championships on Friday at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas.
Six members of the Auburn track and field team earned berths to the semifinals in their respective events in two weeks at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa with their performances on Friday at Hodges Stadium in the 2012 NCAA East Prelim.
Declan Murray fell fractions of a second short of advancing to the NCAA Championship, finishing 13th in the 800m at the NCAA West Regional this evening in Austin, Texas. It marks the second consecutive season that Murray advanced to the regional final and caps an outstanding individual season that saw him set or extend four individual school records and one relay mark.
Another marathon day of intense temperatures and competition wrapped up for the Huskies at NCAA West Prelims today. All-Americans James Alaka and Logan Miller moved to the next site, joined by a surprising Georgia Reynolds.
Three more Gamecock underclassmen have locked up berths to the NCAA Outdoor Championships after finishing in the top 12 of their respective events at the conclusion of the second day of competition at the NCAA East Preliminary held at Hodges Stadium on the campus of the University of North Florida.
As B-CU's representative at the NCAA East Regional Track & Field Championships, senior Kemar Clarke got off to a great start in Friday's 110m hurdles preliminaries, placing high and moving on to the next round of action.Clarke put in a personal record time of 13.65 seconds in the 110m hurdles during Friday's preliminaries, where he currently ranks fifth in the East Region.