Seven make Track and Field NCAAs

Three women and four men will be heading to the East regionals in Bloomington Ind., next weekend to represent the Quakers at the NCAA track and field championships.

For the women, junior and 800m sprinter Victoria Strickland will be joined by sophomore javelin thrower Morgan Wheeler and sophomore Leslie Kovach, who is seeded eighth with her 16:11.59 time in the 5,000 at Penn Relays, which crushed the previous school record by 9 seconds.

The men will be headlined by freshman standout Maalik Reynolds, who won the high jump Championship of America at the Relays, then won the Heptagonal championships the following week before placing second at IC4As last weekend, breaking a streak of six straight competition wins. His top jump this season is 2.28m, a Penn record, good enough for the No. 2 seed at NCAAs.

He'll be joined by eigth-seeded 800-runner Darryll Oliver, 400 hurdler Tim Carey, and distance runner Luke Grau. Oliver and Carey are both veterans of the NCAAs.

All the qualifiers were within the top 48 in their events in the East region. The to 24 advance to the quarterfinals and the top 12 go to the semis and finals, held in June in Des Moines, Iowa.