Forty UAA women's student-athletes received invitations to the 2023 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which will take place at the Polisseni Track & Field Complex at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York, Thursday through Saturday.
Washington University (16) and University of Chicago (15) have a combined 31 competitors in the championship. Emma Kelley and Aoife Dunne of the Bears are seeded first and second, respectively, in the 800-meter run.
UAA runners are seeded 1-2-3 in the 1,500-meter run, led by Annika Urban of Emory, who posted the seventh-fastest time in NCAA Division III history in the event earlier this season. Emily Konkus of WashU is seeded second and Maddie Kelly of the Maroons is seeded third. Urban is seeded third in the 5,000-meter run.
Liz Barre of Carnegie Mellon University is seeded second in the pentathlon, an event she won at the NCAA indoor championship earlier this year.
For each individual event contested, including the decathlon and heptathlon, the top 22 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested, the top 16 declared relay teams, one per institution, were accepted into the competition.
The complete list of qualifiers is available on the following website: https://tf.deltatiming.com/ncaa/2023-ncaa-d3-outdoor-championships.
UAA List of Participants
Carnegie Mellon (1)
Liz Barre: Pentathlon; Long Jump; 100-meter hurdles
CWRU (1)
Adrienne Wachtman: Javelin
Emory (6)
Kaya Binetti: 400-meter relay
Clementine Bodus: 400-meter relay
Audrey Johnson, 400-meter relay; 1,600-meter relay
Libby Ranocha: 800 meters; 1,600-meter relay
Dashiel Tao Harris: 400 meters; 400-meter relay; 1,600-meter relay
Annika Urban: 1,500 meters; 5,000 meters; 1,600-meter relay
NYU (1)
Vivian Kane: 1,500 meters
UChicago (15)
Evelyn Battleson-Gunkel: 1,500 meters; 5,000 meters
Katarina Birimac: 5,000 meters; 10,000 meters
Loren Brown: 100-meter hurdles; 400-meter hurdles
Camila Garanton: 400-meter relay
Caitlin Jorgensen: 3,000-meter steeplechase
Maddie Kelly: 1,500 meters; 5,000 meters
Anna Kenig-Ziesler: 5,000 meters; 10,000 meters
Molly Laumakis: Shot Put
Isabel Layne: 400-meter relay
Maddie Lyons: 400-meter relay
Gabriela Meschino: 100 meters; 200 meters; 400-meter relay
Maya Ordonez: 800 meters
Frances Schaeffler: 10,000 meters
Sophie Tedesco: 10,000 meters
Catherine Wimmer: 1,500 meters
WashU (16)
Ella Behrens: 10,000 meters
Jenae Bothe: Shot put
Mycah Clay: 400-meter relay
Aoife Dunne: 800 meters; 1,500 meters
Sophie Fox: 1,600-meter relay
Lauren Gay: 200 meters; 400-meter relay
Lauren Hamilton: 400-meter relay
Emma Kelley: 800 meters; 1,600-meter relay
Emily Konkus: 1,500 meters; 5,000 meters
Kiera Olson: 10,000 meters
Ebunoluwa Opata: Long jump, Triple jump
Julia Patterson: 3,000-meter steeplechase
Yasmin Ruff: Pole vault
Alessia Sarussi: 800 meters
Kylie Spytek: 1,600-meter relay
Nicole Stewart: 200 meters; 400-meter relay; 1,600-meter relay