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Nightingale, Hynes, Women's DMR To Compete at NCAA Championships
March 09, 2007 | Men's Track and Field
Princeton heptathlete Duane Hynes and distance standout David Nightingale, as well as the impressive Tiger women's distance medley relay team, will compete at the 2007 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships beginning Friday at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark.
Action begins for Hynes Friday morning with the heptathlon 60-meter dash, the first of four events on the first day of the seven-event heptathlon competition. Hynes had the ninth-best heptathlon score in Division I this season, scoring 5,640 points back in December, a score that was the best of those who qualified provisionally for the event.
Nightingale took advantage of a final opportunity to qualify for the NCAA championship in the mile when he ran a time of 4:01.61 at the University of Washington's "Last Chance" meet last weekend. His time was good enough for qualification to the national meet, and he will run the preliminaries in the mile at approximately 7 p.m. Friday.
Should Nightingale, the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter champion at Ivy League Heptagonals, reach the mile final, that race would take place at 6:25 p.m. Saturday.
The final three Heptathlon events for Hynes, the 60-meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000-meter run, get underway Saturday beginning at 11 a.m.
The women's DMR qualified for the NCAA championship with an impressive performance at last weekend's ECAC meet in Boston. The Tigers' foursome of Christy Johnson (1,200 meters), Agatha Offorjebe (400 meters), Liz Costello (800 meters) and Catha Mullen (mile) finished in second place in the event at that meet behind powerful Georgetown, finishing the race in an provisional qualifying time of 11:13.47.
The time was the ninth-best in the nation this year. Princeton will have its NCAA run in the distance medley at 9:15 Friday night.