Ohio State’s Women Qualify 12 Entries for the NCAA Championships
5/27/2023 11:45:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State track and field team competed in the final day of women's competition at the 2023 NCAA East First Round on Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla.
NCAA EAST PRELIM ROUND (SEMIFINALS)
- 5000m: Addie Engel ran her second sub-16-minute time of the season (15:57.15) to finish 10th overall.
NCAA EAST PRELIM ROUND (QUARTERFINALS)
- 100m: Yanique Dayle broke the program record with a time of 11.05 to finish third overall. Nya Bussey finished fifth with a wind-aided 11.08 and Leah Bertrand finished 11th with a wind-aided 11.17 as all three advanced to the next round.
- 200m: Both Dayle (22.58) and Bussey (22.90) qualified for the NCAA semifinals with wind-aided times. Dayle finished third overall and Bussey rounded out the top-10.
- 400m: All three Buckeye women advanced to the NCAA Championship site. Alyssa Marsh led OSU in sixth overall (52.54), while Bryannia Murphy finished 10th (52.93) and Jaydan Wood was 11th (52.96).
- 4x100m relay: The Buckeye women's relay squad won its heat and finished with the second-fastest time by tying its season-best 43.17. Bertrand, Bussey, Dayle and Marsh ran the relay.
- 4x400m relay: The OSU women (Dayle, Marsh, Chanler Robinson, Wood) won their heat and had the fourth-fastest time in the field (3:31.73) to advance to the next round.
NCAA EAST PRELIM ROUND (FIRST ROUND)
- Discus: Faith Bender earned the Buckeye women's first ticket to the NCAA Championships with a best throw of 53.87m / 176'9" to finish ninth.
- Triple jump: Jaimie Robinson qualified for the NCAA Championships with a season-best throw of 13.48m / 44'2.75". Atinuke Shittu made her NCAA First Round debut with a best throw going for 11.85m / 38'10.5'.
THOUGHTS ON THE MEET
Director Rosalind Joseph: "I'm incredibly proud of our 16 women and 13 men who represented the Buckeyes at the NCAA East First Round. To get here you have to be in the top-48 in this side of the country in your event – so it's no small feat.
To get OUT of the first round, you have to line up among the nation's best and compete to come out as the top-12 on this side of the country. That is exactly what we did this week and the result is a nice squad who will be moving on to represent us at the NCAA National Championship in Austin, Texas in two weeks.
Our student-athletes did a phenomenal job, but I also want to thank the coaching staff and support staff who have gotten them to this point. My coaches – Joel Brown, Sara Mason Vergote, Travis Coleman, Diego Flaquer and Victor Houston. My volunteer coaches who traveled with us – Coach Ebin, Coach Brill and Coach Hampton, and our athletic training and medical support staff – Sean Jones, Noah Kells, Paul Johnson and Natalie Stocker for holding us together and of course my Director of Operations, Fred Barends, who makes it all happen for our team behind the scenes. He orchestrates every detail (large and small) to make sure our student-athletes can perform at this elite level."
UP NEXT
The 2023 NCAA Championships will be held in Austin, Texas from Wednesday, June 7 through Saturday, June 10.
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