NCAA-Bound Sooners Announced

May 16, 2013 | Track and Field

By: Athletics Communications

May 16, 2013

NORMAN, Okla. -- Members of the Oklahoma track and field teams officially punched their tickets to the NCAA West Regional on Thursday and will compete next weekend in Austin, Texas.

Seventeen student-athletes from the men's side and 13 from the women's side will represent the Sooners May 23-25 in the NCAA preliminary session after finishing in the top 48 of their respective events in the region.

Complete List of NCAA Regional Declared Athletes

Leading the men, runners-up in the Big 12 Championships two weeks ago, will be senior Riley Masters, ranked first in the region in the 1,500 meters. Masters will be joined by two other Sooners in the 1,500, including Big 12 Champion Patrick Casey, ranked fourth in the region, and senior Frezer Legesse, ranked 25th.

Other top-ranked OU men's team members competing include senior Kevin Williams, ranked eighth in the 10,000 meters, Big 12 Champion Tre' Lathan, ranked eighth in the 110-meter hurdles, and junior Waymon Storey, ranked 10th in the 200 meters.

Both the men's 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams also qualified for the region meet.

The Oklahoma women will enter the meet ranked No. 22 in the country. The Sooners are led by senior Tia Brooks, the defending indoor and outdoor national champion in the shot put, who will begin the quest to defend her title. Brooks comes in as the No. 1 seed in the region and in the country after winning her second Big 12 outdoor shot put championship and fifth conference title overall.

Brooks will be joined by a strong field team for Oklahoma that includes javelin throwers Elizabeth Herrs and Avione Allgood. Both freshmen, Herrs ranks second in the region while Allgood won the Big 12 outdoor title and is ranked fourth.

The top 12 competitors from each individual event and 12 teams from each relay event from each regional meet will compete in the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships held June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore.

OKLAHOMA MEN'S NCAA REGIONAL PARTICIPANTS
Event	Rank	Name	Mark/Time
200 Meters	10th	Waymon Storey	20.79
400 Meters	21st	Ethan Baker	46.60
1500 Meters	1st	Riley Masters	3:38.79
1500 Meters	4th	Patrick Casey	3:40.04
1500 Meters	25th	Frezer Legesse	3:44.25
5000 Meters	32nd	Kevin Williams	13:59.77
10000 Meters	8th	Kevin Williams	29:16.62
10000 Meters	19th	Aaron Sherf	29:29.64
10000 Meters	21st	Ryan Poland	29:30.33
110m Hurdles	8th	Tre' Lathan	13.68
110m Hurdles	22nd	Matt Wicks	14:04
400m Hurdles	22nd	Nathaniel Winfrey	51:54
4x100 Relay	14th	Oklahoma	40.07
4x400 Relay	18th	Oklahoma	3:09.46
Long Jump	18th	Kaelan Washington	7.63
Triple Jump	18th	Wayne Walls	15.63
Shot Put	13th	Austin Perry	18.27
Hammer	39th	Holden Mitchell	59.87
Javelin	12th	Tyler Renton	69.66

OKLAHOMA WOMEN'S NCAA REGIONAL PARTICIPANTS
Event	Rank	Name	Mark/Time
100 Meters	16th	Erin Jones	11.42
100 Meters	48th	Cessily Jones	11.68
200 Meters	34th	Erin Jones	23.73
1500 Meters	27th	Hilary Krein	4:23.73
100m Hurdles	30th	Georgina Tamez-Reyna	13.57
High Jump	35th	Kristen Rice	1.75
Pole Vault	47th	Rachel Bolton	3.91
Triple Jump	44th	Whitney Johnson	12.32
Shot Put	1st	Tia Brooks	18.73
Shot Put	43rd	Brooke Garner	15.40
Discus	32nd	Alexandra Morgan	51.88
Discus	48th	Kate Foster	49.92
Javelin	2nd	Elizabeth Herrs	52.97
Javelin	4th	Avione Allgood	52.19