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NCAA Championships
NCAA Outdoor National Championships Awaits Alabama
6/6/2023 5:14:00 PM | Track & Field, Cross Country
23 student-athletes will compete across 14 total events throughout the four-day, national meet
AUSTIN, Texas – The Alabama track and field teams are set to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, June 7-10, at Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas.
The national meet marks the second time in four years that Texas has played host (2019), as well as the second time this outdoor season that the Crimson Tide will compete at the Longhorns' facility after first visiting for the Texas Relays (March 30-April 1).
The schedule format will match that of the East Preliminary Round, with the men competing Wednesday and Friday and the women's competition being held Thursday and Saturday. Semifinal, preliminary action on the track for the men's and women's competitions will be Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
The Crimson Tide will open the meet Wednesday afternoon (2:30 p.m. CT) in the men's hammer throw. The first preliminary track event for Alabama will be the men's 4x100-meter relay at 6:32 p.m.
Both Alabama programs will enter Austin, Texas, nationally ranked in the top 15, with the men sitting at No. 9 and the women at No. 15.
NCAA Championships Tide Preview
- Bobby Colantonio Jr. will open the National Championships on Wednesday in the men's hammer throw at 2:30 p.m. CT, with the last event of the day featuring Corde Long, Khaleb McRae, Tarsis Orogot and Chris Robinson in the 4x400-meter relay (9:48 p.m.)
- Men's hammer will be an event final, whereas the 4x4 will be a preliminary event
- The men's program features 11 qualifiers, while the women's program qualified 12
- UA men's qualifiers: Bobby Colantonio Jr. (hammer) | Antonio Crisco (4x100m relay) | Alan de Falchi (discus) | Victor Kiprop (10,000m) | Corde Long (400m hurdles, 4x400m relay) | Khaleb McRae (400m, 4x400m relay) | Tarsis Orogot (200m, 4x400m relay) | Jekovan Rhetta (4x100m relay) | Chris Robinson (400m hurdles, 4x400m relay) | Quincy Scott (4x100m relay) | Matthew Weaver (4x100m relay)
- UA women's qualifiers: Flomena Asekol (1,500m) | Na'Taja Ballard (4x100m relay) | Amari Brown (4x100m relay) | Mercy Chelangat (10,000m) | Milan Fields (4x100m relay) | Taylor Gorum (hammer) | Caelyn Harris (long jump) | Chelsea Igberaese (shot put) | Samantha Kunza (hammer) | Cherisse Murray (shot put) | Amara Obi (4x100m relay) | Hilda Olemomoi (10,000m)
- 23 UA student-athletes will compete across 14 events
- Four of UA's events will feature multiple Crimson Tide student-athletes
- Men's 400m hurdles: Long / Robinson | women's 10,000m: Chelangat / Olemomoi | women's hammer: Gorum / Kunza | women's shot put: Igberaese / Murray
- Three of the Tide's events will feature UA representation in both the men's and women's versions of that respective event
- Hammer throw: Colantonio Jr. / Gorum / Kunza | 10,000m: Kiprop / Chelangat / Olemomoi | 4x100m relay: Crisco / Rhetta / Scott / Weaver; Ballard / Brown / Fields / Obi
- Of its qualifying entries, Alabama enters the meet ranked in the top 10, nationally, in the men's 400m hurdles (No. 2), as well as the men's 400m (No. 8)
- Of its qualifying entries, top-15 nationally ranked, UA men's individual events include:
- Orogot - No. 1, 200m | McRae - No. 14, 400m | Kiprop - No. 2, 10,000m | Robinson - No. 2, 400m hurdles | Long - No. 9, 400m hurdles | Robinson McRae, Orogot, Long – No. 2, 4x400-meter relay | de Falchi - No. 12, discus | Colantonio Jr. - No. 11, hammer throw
- Of its qualifying entries, top-15 nationally ranked, UA women's individual events include:
- Asekol – No. 12, 1,500m | Chelangat – No. 2, 10,000m | Olemomoi – No. 4, 10,000m | Igberaese – No. 9, shot put
Nationals: UA Men First Day Preview
- Alabama arrives to Texas' Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium Wednesday for the opening day of both the men's competition and the national meet as a whole
- The first day of the National Championships will start with the hammer throw at 2:30 p.m. CT, as Bobby Colantonio Jr. looks to earn the Tide's first medal of the four-day meet
- Alabama will compete in seven total events on Wednesday, one field event and seven track events
- Victor Kiprop's 10,000-meter run (9:08 p.m.) will be the other opportunity for the Tide to medal on Wednesday
- Alabama will look to advance to Friday's event finals in the 4x100-meter relay (6:32 p.m.), 400 meters (8 p.m.), 400-meter hurdles (8:30 p.m.), 200 meters (8:44 p.m.) and the 4x400-meter relay (9:48 p.m.)
- The Tide can only earn podium finishes in these events upon advancing past Wednesday's semifinal, preliminary round
Last Time Out
- Alabama saw student-athletes punch tickets to Nationals across all four days of the East Preliminary Round
- Wednesday: two
- Thursday: seven
- Friday: nine
- Saturday: five
- Caelyn Harris (women's long jump) became the event's lone underclassman of the entire East Region to advance
- Corde Long (first) and Chris Robinson (second) clocked the two fastest times of the East Region in the 400-meter hurdles
- After previously punching tickets in individual events, Long, McRae, Orogot and Robinson teamed up at the end of third night, in the 4x400-meter relay, to not only win their heat, but effectively punch their second ticket to Nationals
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