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Four Princeton Athletes To Compete At NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
March 11, 2008 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Four Princeton track & field athletes, three on the men's side and one on the women's side, will compete at this weekend's NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships at the University of Arkansas's Randal Tyson Track Center.
High jumper Justin Frick, heptathlete Duane Hynes and miler Michael Maag will compete for the Princeton men, while miler Liz Costello will compete for the Tiger women.
Princeton action will begin at 10:45 a.m. EDT on Fri., March 14, when Hynes, the Heps champion, begins competition in the seven-event heptathlon. The first four of those seven events?the 60-meter dash, long jump, shot put and high jump?take place on Friday, while the final three events, the 60-meter hurdles, pole vault, and 1,000-meter run, begin at noon on Saturday.
Hynes' season-best total of 5,572, at the Princeton Relays at Jadwin Gym Jan. 26, is the 11th-best mark among the 16 NCAA championship competitors.
Frick, the Heps champion indoors in 2008 and outdoors in 2007 and the IC4A champ outdoors last season, will begin competition in the high jump at 5:45 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. The sophomore cleared a personal-best 7' 2 1/4" (2.19 meters) at Penn State's Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup in early February, tied for the sixth-best mark in the 16-competitor field that will compete at the NCAA meet.
The mile runs, both finals, will be be run consecutively beginning at 7:15 p.m. Saturday with the men going first. Maag, the 2007-08 Heps cross country champion and indoor 3,000-meter champion, ran an impressive 4:00.43 earlier this season in a meet at the University of Washington to qualify for the national meet.
Costello earned a spot in the NCAA championship mile by running a 4:40.37 at this past weekend's Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame. Like Maag, Costello was the 2007 Heps cross country individual champion and was also the mile winner at the indoor meet, which the Tigers won as a team for the first time since 1998.
The women's mile gets underway at 7:25 p.m ET Saturday.