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2 BYU Cougars qualify for NCAA track and field championships at West prelims
BYU’s Jenna Hutchins and Rebekah Erikson qualified for the NCAA track and field championships Thursday with their performances at the NCAA West Preliminaries in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hutchins, a sophomore from Tennessee, finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run, and Erikson, a junior from Washington, finished in a three-way tie for first in the pole vault. Hutchins clocked a time of 34:10.30. The race was won by Oklahoma State’s Taylor Roe in 33:46.23. All 12 qualifiers in the pole vault cleared 14 feet, 1 1/2 inches and their places had to be settled based on misses, but even that could not separate the top three — Erikson, Baylor’s Molly Haywood and Oklahoma’s Olivia Lueking.
More BYU athletes qualify for track and field nationals
BYU’s Dallin Shurts, a 6-foot-6 senior from Oregon, won the discus at the NCAA West Preliminaries Friday in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to advance to the NCAA track and field championships. Shurts, who was ranked fourth among collegians entering the meet, won the competition with a throw of 203 feet, 10 inches. Dimitrios Pavlidis of Kansas was second with a throw of 199-1. Shurts, the runner-up in last week’s Big 12 championships, was the 2022 runner-up at the USA national championships. The West and East Preliminaries, held simultaneously in Lexington, Kentucky, and Fayetteville, are used to determine qualifiers for the NCAA championships, scheduled for June 5-8 in Eugene, Oregon.
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