AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn track & field begins on the road to NCAA Outdoor Championships with the NCAA East Preliminaries at the Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, May 24-27. A total of 25 Auburn student-athletes will compete in 19 individual events and one relay in hopes of making it to the national championships in Austin, Texas, June 7-10.
Both the East and West Preliminaries will take the top 12 finishers in each event, with all 24 squaring off for top honors at NCAA Championships. The West Preliminaries will be held at California State University, in Sacramento, California.
On the women's side, the Tigers will have 13 competitors while the men will send 12. Of the 25 competing, seven Tigers have competed previously at NCAA Outdoors. The men include Favour Ashe, Kyle Brown, Dontavious Hill, and Moitalel Mpoke, with the women including Sanaa Barnes, Madi Malone, Maura Huwalt, and Shaniya Holley.
Another NCAA Outdoors qualifier is junior John Murray, who has already punched his ticket to Nationals in the decathlon. Murray will be competing in his first NCAA Outdoor Championship in Austin.
Auburn Prelims Qualifiers
Men's 100m
Favour Ashe
Azeem Fahmi
Men's 400m Hurdles
Moitalel Mpoke
Men's 800m
Louis O'Loughlin
Men's 5,000m
Ryan Kinnane
Men's High Jump
Dontavious Hill
TJ Funches
Men's Pole Vault
Matthew Asplund
Men's Hammer
Kyle Brown
Erik Ebel
Kyle Moison
Men's Shot Put
Matthew Rueff
Women's 100m
Chante Clinkscale
Women's 200m
Niya Benton-Andrews
Women's 400m
Ashantae Harvey
Arianna Sharpe
Amirah Sharpe
Women's 400m Hurdles
Abasiono Akpan
Lalah Hasbrouck
Women's 4x400m Relay
Ashantae Harvey, Arianna Sharpe, Amirah Sharpe, Abasiono Akpan, Lalah Hasbrouck
Women's Hammer
Madi Malone
Women's Shot Put
Maura Huwalt
Women's Javelin
Maura Huwalt
Shaniya Holley
Women's Discus
Muara Huwalt
Women's Triple Jump
Amy Warren
Women's High Jump
Sanaa Barnes
Women's Pole Vault
Alyssa Quinones-Mixon
