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Huskies Punch Seven Tickets For NCAA Indoors
February 26, 2019 | Track & Field
Women's Qualifiers | Men's Qualifiers
SEATTLE – The stage is set for the NCAA Indoor Championships as the fields for Birmingham were announced today. Sixteen athletes in each individual event and the top-12 relays will compete for titles and team points on March 8-9 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Alabama. Washington will have over a dozen athletes making the trip for a total of seven entries.
ESPN3 will stream the championships live starting at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time on March 8 and starting at 2 p.m. Pacific time on March 9. A tape delayed broadcast of the championship will air on ESPN2 on Sunday, March 10, at 7 p.m. and again on Monday, March 11, starting at 7 p.m.
A pair of fifth-year seniors qualifying for their first NCAA Indoor meets lead the Husky entries. Fred Huxham made the cut in the men's 3,000-meters with his time of 7:51.82, the third-best mark in school history. Izzi Batt-Doyle, who had never run an indoor race in the Dempsey until this year, makes her first NCAA Indoor appearance in the 5,000-meters, where she set the UW school record at 15:40.53.
Junior Mick Stanovsek is headed to his third-straight NCAA Indoor meet and first as a Dawg as he qualified in the mile with his time of 3:58.64. He will be the first Husky competing in the men's mile since 2015.
Katie Rainsberger, a sophomore indoors, is the one Husky entered in multiple individual events, as she will race in both the mile and the 3,000-meters. Rainsberger returns to NCAA Indoors after missing the 2018 indoor season due to injury. She was third in the 3k and third on the DMR as a freshman for Oregon in 2017. Rainsberger ran a mile PR this season of 4:35.15 and a 3k time of 9:02.84 to rank fourth and third, respectively, in school history.
Rainsberger also helped the women's distance medley relay qualify thanks to their time of 11:00.35 set back at the UW Invitational in January. The Huskies hung on to get the twelfth and final qualifying spot with that mark, set by Rainsberger, Imani Apostol, Hannah Derby, and Lilli Burdon. At NCAA Indoors, the DMR will again feature Apostol, Derby, and Burdon, with Allie Schadler stepping in to lead off. It will be the fifth all-time appearance at nationals for the women's DMR.
The men's distance medley relay is the final entry for the Huskies, as Washington punched its ticket with a time of 9:28.14 at the Last Chance College Elite Meet. It will be the seventh appearance at NCAAs for the men's DMR, the lineup of which is still to be determined.
Washington is one of just five programs to qualify both its men's and women's distance medley relays for nationals, along with Arkansas, Indiana, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
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