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Tech track qualifiers set for NCAA outdoor

Staff Report
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Texas Tech sprinter Rosemary Chukwuma qualified for the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in the 100 meters with her performance at the West regional in Sacramento, California. The NCAA championships are June 7-10 in Austin.
Texas Tech sprinter Rosemary Chukwuma qualified for the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in the 100 meters with her performance at the West regional in Sacramento, California. The NCAA championships are June 7-10 in Austin.

The NCAA on Monday released the full list of qualifiers for the NCAA outdoor track and field championships next week in Austin.

From the NCAA West Preliminaries that concluded Saturday in Sacramento, California, the Tech men advanced 11 entrants in seven individual events, plus a relay. The Tech women qualified five entrants in three individual events, plus a relay.

Mike A. Myers Stadium will host the meet June 7-10.

The Red Raiders had a trio of two-event qualifiers. Terrence Jones made it out in the 100 meters (9.93) and the 200 meters (20.21), Courtney Lindsey also in the 100 meters (10.02) and the 200 meters (19.92) and Caleb Dean in the 110-meter hurdles (13.47) and the 400-meter hurdles (48.43). All their times were wind-legal — that is, recorded with no more than 2.0 meters per second of tailwind — except Lindsey's 200 time with a 2.3 mps tailwind.

Other track athletes who advanced are Antoine Andrews in the 110-meter hurdles (wind-legal 13.74), Oskar Edlund in the 400-meter hurdles (50.58) and the 400-meter relay of Nylo Clarke, Lindsey, Adam Clayton and Jones (39.16).

Tech field-event athletes who qualified for Austin are Zach Bradford in the pole vault (17 feet, 8 1/2 inches), Devin Roberson in the discus (188-9) and Keyshawn King in the triple jump (wind-assisted 53-0).

Tech's Joe Keys also qualified in the decathlon based on his season-best of 7,697 points. The combined events were not contested at the NCAA West Preliminaries nor at the East Preliminaries in Jacksonville, Florida.

Headlining the group of Tech women who qualified for the championships were a trio who finished first, fifth and sixth in the triple jump in Sacramento: Ruta Lasmane, Onaara Obamuwagun and Anne-Suzanna Fosther-Katta. Lasmane jumped 46 feet, 2 inches. Obamuwagun and Fosther-Katta both had best marks of 44-0 1/2.

Also advancing were Demisha Roswell in the 110-meter hurdles (12.77 seconds), Rosemary Chukwuma in the 100 meters (11.09) and the 400-meter relay team of Serena Clark, Roswell, Chukwuma and Adriane Nwonumah (43.69).

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech track and field qualifiers set for NCAA outdoor championships