Track & Field Competes At NCAA West Regional May 27 & 29

Thursday, May 27

College Station, Texas

3 PM

SMU

NCAA West Regional (Day One)

Track & Field Competes At NCAA West Regional May 27 & 29

May 26 | Track & Field

NCAA WEST PRELIMS
DAY ONE – Thursday May 27, 2021
DAY TWO – Saturday May 29, 2021
Cushing Track Stadium | College Station, Texas
Live Results | Watch Day One | Watch Day Two

SMU Track & Field heads to the NCAA West Regional in College Station on May 27-29. The women's prelims will take place on Thursday May 27 and Saturday May 29 from the Cushing Track & Field Stadium to decide the 12 qualifiers in each event for the June's NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Ten Mustangs qualified for the prelims, one off the program record set back in 2011. The Mustang squad heading to the prelims includes seven individual qualifers across six events and two relays teams. Thursday is the first round for all the individual track events which will cut the field from 48 to 24 for Saturday's prelim finals. The long jump, featuring a pair of Mustang freshman, Funminiyi Olajide and Raelyn Roberson, will be the lone SMU event concluding on Friday.

On Saturday, Atipa Mabonga competes in the triple jump along with the SMU 4x100 and 4x400 relay squads and the prelim finals of the 100m, 400m, 100 hurdles and 400 hurdles.

Action gets underway at 3 p.m. on Thursday as Olajide and Roberson take to the long jump pit.

--SMU THURSDAY SCHEDULE--

LONG JUMP
3:00 P.M.   |   National First Round / Prelim Finals
Funminiyi Olajide
Raelyn Roberson

100 Hurdles
6:00 P.M. | National First Round / Prelim Semis
Jernaya Sharp

100m
7:00 P.M. | National First Round / Prelim Semis
Chelsea Francis

400m
7:25 P.M. | National First Round / Prelim Semis
Chika Iwuamadi

400 Hurdles
8:20 P.M. | National First Round / Prelim Semis
Ashton Woods

--SMU SATURDAY SCHEDULE--

TRIPLE JUMP
3:15 P.M.   |   National First Round / Prelim Finals
Atipa Mabonga

4x100 Relay
5:30 P.M. | National Quarterfinals / Prelim Finals
Jordanae Scott, Chelsea Francis, Raelyn Roberson, Jernaya Sharp

100 Hurdles
6:45 P.M. | National Quarterfinals / Prelim Finals

100m
7:05 P.M. | National Quarterfinals / Prelim Finals

400m
7:20 P.M. | National Quarterfinals / Prelim Finals

400 Hurdles
7:55 P.M. | National Quarterfinals / Prelim Finals

4x400 Relay
9:15 P.M. | National Quarterfinals / Prelim Finals
Ashton Woods, Annette Bolomboy, Whitney Williams, Chika Iwuamadi

MUSTANG 10 QUALIFIERS
A pair of Mustang freshman qualified in the long jump. Funminiyi Olajide posted the second-best long jump in program history with her top mark of 6.28m while Raelyn Roberson best mark of 6.21m ranks third all-time at SMU.

Senior Atipa Mabonga qualified in the triple jump with her top mark of 13.02m. She became just the fifth Mustang to break the 13-meter mark earlier this season.

Chelsea Francis qualified for her fourth NCAA Outdoor Prelims in the 100m. The senior posted her best time of 11.47 at the conference championship.

Chika Iwuamadi earned a bid in the 400m. Iwuamadi, the SMU record holder in the 400m, earned a silver in the event at the AAC Championships as well a bronze running the anchor leg of the 4x400 team.

Jernaya Sharp punched a ticket to the Prelims with her performance in the 100-hurdles. In her first season as a Mustang, Sharp broke a 33-year school record in the 100 hurdles during a bronze winning showing at the AACs.

Ashton Woods qualified in the 400 hurdles for the second time in her career. The senior broke the program record four separate times this year and earned silver at conference. Woods is seeded 12th in the region, one of just 13 qualifiers under 58 seconds.

The 4x100 relay team of Roberson, Francis, Sharp and Jordanae Scott posted a season-best time of 45.28, good for a bid to the prelims. The 4x400 team of Woods, Annette Bolomboy, Whitney Williams and Iwuamadi broke the program record at the AACs with a time of 3:37.15. The time won bronze at the AAC and earned the team a spot in the prelims.