Track And Field Qualifies Eight For NCAA East Preliminary

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina track and field program will send eight athletes to the NCAA East Preliminary competition scheduled for May 23-25 in Jacksonville, Fla. The field was announced by the organization Thursday afternoon.

Senior Grace Sullivan, the school-record holder in the Steeplechase, enters the regional with a No. 12 ranking. She ran her season-best time of 10:12.62 at the Bill Carson Invitational before finishing second at the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships to earn all-conference honors. Sullivan is making her second consecutive appearance at the preliminary.

Sophomore Sommer Knight is 19^th in the region in the pole vault with a season-best effort of 4.15 meters. She achieved that mark at the Duke Invitational. Knight finished one spot out of advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships last season, placing 13^th in the regional in Tampa.

In addition to Sullivan, senior Hakeem Horton (2nd/long jump), sophomore Alyssa Sandy (2nd/100-meter hurdles) and senior Kourtney Edwards-Campbell (3rd/discus) earned all-conference accolades at the league meet.

The top 12 finishers in each preliminary event from each region advance to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, scheduled for June 5-8 at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas.

2019 ECU Men's East Preliminary Qualifiers (Regional Ranking)
Hakeem Horton – Long Jump (48)
Evan McCracken – Shot Put (44)

2019 ECU Women's East Preliminary Qualifiers (Regional Ranking)
Kourtney Edwards-Campbell – Discus (43)
Sommer Knight – Pole Vault (19)
Alyssa Sandy – 100-meter Hurdles (47)
Brooke Stith – Triple Jump (47)
Grace Sullivan – Steeplechase (12)
Mackenzie Whitaker – Long Jump (39)

Track And Field Qualifies Eight For NCAA East Preliminary

Players Mentioned

Kourtney Edwards-Campbell

Hakeem Horton

Sommer Knight

Evan McCracken

Alyssa Sandy

Brooke Stith

Grace Sullivan

Mackenzie Whitaker

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