Huskies Advancing to NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore.
Women
Nastassja Campbell, Women’s Pole Vault
Chloe Foerster, Women’s 1,500-meters
Amanda Moll, Women’s Pole Vault
Hana Moll, Women’s Pole Vault
Wilma Nielsen, Women’s 800-meters
Sophie O’Sullivan, Women’s 1,500-meters
Men
Chandler Ault, Men’s Javelin
Prestin Artis, Men’s Long Jump
Jonathan Birchman, Men’s 400-meter Hurdles
Nathan Green, Men’s 1,500-meters
Luke Houser, Men’s 1,500-meters
Max Manson, Men’s Pole Vault
Jami Schlueter, Men’s Decathlon (advances without Prelim competition)
Joe Waskom, Men’s 1,500-meters
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Washington’s NCAA Outdoor Championship squad is set as the NCAA West Prelims came to a close today at John McDonnell Field in Arkansas. Three more Huskies joined the travel roster to Eugene, which will host the championship final from June 5-8. Chloe Foerster, Sophie O’Sullivan, and Wilma Nielsen brought the total UW women’s qualifiers to six, adding to the eight men to make the cut.
The West Prelim meet cut down fields of 48 athletes in every individual event to 12 who will reconvene in Eugene. Washington winds up with 14 combined entries for the season finale.
Foerster and O’Sullivan each moved through in the 1,500-meters today, while Nielsen punched her ticket in the 800-meters.
In the first quarterfinal heat of the 1,500-meters, O’Sullivan showed she’s closing in on the form she showed last spring. From a tight lead pack, O’Sullivan and Texas Tech’s Juliet Cherubet pulled away and Cherubet won in the fastest time of the week in 4;09.04, but O’Sullivan was right behind in a huge season-best time of 4:09.61.
Moments later, Foerster ran at the front of the second quarterfinal heat, doing a lot of the pace work from lane two. Needing a top-five finish to move on, Foerster was part of a group that gradually separated from the rest of the field and she powered down the homestretch securely in the front five. She finished in third in a time of 4:17.63.
It will be the first NCAA Outdoor appearance for Foerster, and the second-straight for O’Sullivan, who reached the finals last year. A native of Portland, Foerster will have the home-state advantage in Eugene.
Nielsen had the best finish ever by a Dawg in an NCAA 800-meters final at the indoor meet in March (6th-place) and she took the next step to reach the outdoor meet today. The Sweden native survived some traffic with 200-meters to go that broke her stride a bit, and she…
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