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NCAA Indoor Championships
Neale Leads The Way On Day One At NCAA Indoors
March 10, 2017 | Track & Field
NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
March 10-11 • College Station, Texas • Gilliam Indoor
HUSKIES AT NCAA INDOORS
Saturday, March 11th (all times Pacific)
2:00 pm - Women's Pole Vault Final - Elizabeth Quick
2:00 pm - Women's Mile Final - Amy-Eloise Neale
4:15 pm - Men's 3,000m Final - Colby Gilbert
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A patient and decisive Amy-Eloise Neale rolled into the final of the women's mile run today to highlight day one at the NCAA Indoor Championships for the Huskies. The junior from Snohomish ran the second-fastest time of the day and the second-fastest of her career, going 4:35.38 to move on to Saturday's 10-woman final.
Hosted by Texas A&M at the Gilliam Indoor facility, Neale was the first of a trio of Dawgs in action at the championships. Sophomore pole vaulter Chase Smith cleared his first two bars at an NCAA finals, but needed one more to make the podium, as he tied for 11th. Junior Colby Gilbert then finished 15th overall in the 5,000-meter run.
Smith and Gilbert will earn Second Team All-America honors for their finishes, and Gilbert will look for a better result on Saturday when he runs the 3,000-meters.
Neale, in her first NCAA Indoor appearance, was content to stay out of harm's way at the back of her eight-woman semifinal for most of the race. She was still seventh with 400-meters to go, but moved up on the penultimate lap and went into the final lap sitting in fourth-place, with the top four automatically advancing. Neale passed two more runners and left little to doubt as she crossed in second-place in 4:35.38, just .07 behind the heat winner.
It will be the second straight NCAA meet final for Neale, who also made the 1,500-meters final outdoors last spring. It's the second-straight year that a Husky reached the mile final, as Eleanor Fulton took eighth in 2016.
Neale will race in the final at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time on Saturday, streamed live on ESPN3. Also competing on Saturday will be senior Elizabeth Quick in the women's pole vault, also starting at 2 p.m., and Gilbert will run the 3k at 4:15.
Smith got his first NCAA appearance off to a flying start with a first attempt make at 17-2 ¾. He then cleared 17-6 ½ on his second attempt. The next bar was 17-10 ½, but Smith was unable to keep climbing, missing his three tries at that height. Still it was quite the indoor season for the Montana native who had just one 17-foot clearance as a freshman but went at least 17-3 at five meets this season including a new PR of 17-11 ¼ and a first trip to nationals.
Gilbert was in good position throughout the majority of the 5,000-meters, rarely ever slipping lower than eighth-place in the 16-man field. But with a little less than 800 meters to go, the school record-holder started to give up some ground and wasn't able to dial it back up.
NCAA Indoor Championships
Day 1 of 2 – March 10, 2017
College Station, Texas – Gilliam Indoor
Washington Results
Men's 5,000-meters Final: 15. Colby Gilbert, 14:20.58 (All-America Second Team)
Men's Pole Vault Final: tie-11th. Chase Smith, 17-6 ½ (All-America Second Team)
Women's Mile Semifinal 1 of 2: 2. Amy-Eloise Neale, 4:35.38 (Advances to Saturday final)
March 10-11 • College Station, Texas • Gilliam Indoor
HUSKIES AT NCAA INDOORS
Saturday, March 11th (all times Pacific)
2:00 pm - Women's Pole Vault Final - Elizabeth Quick
2:00 pm - Women's Mile Final - Amy-Eloise Neale
4:15 pm - Men's 3,000m Final - Colby Gilbert
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A patient and decisive Amy-Eloise Neale rolled into the final of the women's mile run today to highlight day one at the NCAA Indoor Championships for the Huskies. The junior from Snohomish ran the second-fastest time of the day and the second-fastest of her career, going 4:35.38 to move on to Saturday's 10-woman final.
Hosted by Texas A&M at the Gilliam Indoor facility, Neale was the first of a trio of Dawgs in action at the championships. Sophomore pole vaulter Chase Smith cleared his first two bars at an NCAA finals, but needed one more to make the podium, as he tied for 11th. Junior Colby Gilbert then finished 15th overall in the 5,000-meter run.
Smith and Gilbert will earn Second Team All-America honors for their finishes, and Gilbert will look for a better result on Saturday when he runs the 3,000-meters.
Neale, in her first NCAA Indoor appearance, was content to stay out of harm's way at the back of her eight-woman semifinal for most of the race. She was still seventh with 400-meters to go, but moved up on the penultimate lap and went into the final lap sitting in fourth-place, with the top four automatically advancing. Neale passed two more runners and left little to doubt as she crossed in second-place in 4:35.38, just .07 behind the heat winner.
It will be the second straight NCAA meet final for Neale, who also made the 1,500-meters final outdoors last spring. It's the second-straight year that a Husky reached the mile final, as Eleanor Fulton took eighth in 2016.
Neale will race in the final at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time on Saturday, streamed live on ESPN3. Also competing on Saturday will be senior Elizabeth Quick in the women's pole vault, also starting at 2 p.m., and Gilbert will run the 3k at 4:15.
Smith got his first NCAA appearance off to a flying start with a first attempt make at 17-2 ¾. He then cleared 17-6 ½ on his second attempt. The next bar was 17-10 ½, but Smith was unable to keep climbing, missing his three tries at that height. Still it was quite the indoor season for the Montana native who had just one 17-foot clearance as a freshman but went at least 17-3 at five meets this season including a new PR of 17-11 ¼ and a first trip to nationals.
Gilbert was in good position throughout the majority of the 5,000-meters, rarely ever slipping lower than eighth-place in the 16-man field. But with a little less than 800 meters to go, the school record-holder started to give up some ground and wasn't able to dial it back up.
NCAA Indoor Championships
Day 1 of 2 – March 10, 2017
College Station, Texas – Gilliam Indoor
Washington Results
Men's 5,000-meters Final: 15. Colby Gilbert, 14:20.58 (All-America Second Team)
Men's Pole Vault Final: tie-11th. Chase Smith, 17-6 ½ (All-America Second Team)
Women's Mile Semifinal 1 of 2: 2. Amy-Eloise Neale, 4:35.38 (Advances to Saturday final)
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