INDIANAPOLIS – Seven members of the University of Sioux Falls Track and Field Team will attend and compete at the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Track and Field Indoor Championships on March 8-9 in Pittsburg, Kansas at the Robert W. Plaster Center.
The USF qualifiers will compete in four events at the nationals. The athletes, event, distance and placing is as follows: sophomore
Emma Hertz, women's shot put 14.83 meters (48'8), 14
th; junior
Zach Lundberg, 3,000-meter run, 8:13.71, 14th; junior
Tristan Zawadzki, pole vault, 5.09 meters (16-8 ¼), 11
th; and the men's distance medley relay of Lundberg, senior
Trey Furgeson, senior
Billy Beseman, senior
Mason Phillips and alternate senior
Jase Kraft, 9:48.17, seventh. Lundberg will compete individually for the first time in the 3,000-meter run. He will also be part of a tradition DMR squad, which clocked a school record at the Stinger Invite at Black Hills State to earn the bid to nationals. USF has earned first team All-American honors in the DMR in 2015 (eighth place) and 2018 (eighth place) and was second team All-American in 2017 (10
th place). Hertz and Zawadzki will compete individually at nationals for the first time.
Student-athletes qualified for the championships by reaching the automatic and provisional standards established for each event.
Pittsburg State University and the Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau will serve as co-hosts of the championships. The championships will be streamed live on
www.NCAA.com.
The 2019 NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships Committee announced the field total and included 540 participants with 270 men and 270 women. USF's six student-athletes will be among 56 from the NSIC and that total includes 32 women and 24 men across 49 events.
Last weekend, USF finished third in the men's team race and sixth in the women's standings at the NSiC Indoor Track and Field Championships.
