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Four Tigers To Compete at NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships
June 04, 2007 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Four Princeton track & field athletes?distance runners Catha Mullen and David Nightingale, pole vaulter Andrew Park and high jumper Justin Frick?will compete at the 2007 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships beginning Wednesday at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium.
Frick earned an automatic qualification to the national championship by finishing third in the high jump in the NCAA East Regional last month in Gainesville, Fla. Mullen, Nightingale and Park earned at-large selections last week.
Nightingale, an All-America both in cross country and indoor track (in the mile) this season, runs in the 5,000-meter qualifying heats at 11:50 p.m. ET Wednesday. Mullen, Princeton's lone female representative at the NCAA championships, runs in the women's 5,000 qualifying 40 minutes later. The top six runners from each of two heats, plus the top four qualifying times after that, advance to the men's and women's 5,000 finals late Friday night.
Pole vault qualifying for Park begins at 9:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, while Frick begins high jump qualifying 45 minutes after that. Frick, a freshman, was the high jump champion in both the Ivy League Heptagonal and IC4A meets last month.
The high jump finals begin at 6:00 p.m. ET on Friday, while the pole vault finals begin at 9:15 p.m. ET Friday.
19 Princeton athletes, 10 on the men's side and nine on the women's side, qualified for the NCAA East Regionals last month in Gainesville. Qualifiers from four NCAA regionals, as well as at-large selections, advance to the national championship meet June 6-9 at Hornet Stadium.