Michigan
NCAA Outdoor Championships
Five Wolverines Set for NCAA Outdoor Championships
6/4/2024 12:45:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Five members of the University of Michigan women's track and field team -- Riley Ammenhauser, Corinne Jemison, Aasia Laurencin, Savannah Sutherland and Emma Yungeberg -- are set to close out the 2024 season at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, on Thursday (June 6) and Saturday (June 8) at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Notes
• Track action will kick off competition on Thursday at 6:32 p.m. PDT with the 100-meter hurdles, while field action will begin at 6:45 p.m. PDT with the javelin. The discus throw will open field action on Saturday at 2:05 p.m. PDT while track action will begin with the 100-meter hurdles at 3:12 p.m. PDT.
• In Eugene, Ammenhauser will compete in the triple jump, Jemison in the discus throw, Laurencin in the 100-meter hurdles, Sutherland in the 400-meter hurdles, and Yungeberg in the javelin throw.
• At the NCAA East Preliminary Round, Yungeberg earned her first trip to the NCAA Championships with a personal-best javelin throw of 51.35m (168 feet, 5 inches) on her first attempt. The mark topped the program record of 50.89m (164-5) that she set in her second-place finish at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships on May 10.
• Sutherland will look to defend her NCAA 400-meter hurdle title, setting the Kentucky Outdoor Track and Field Complex record in the preliminary round (54.61 seconds) and meeting the Olympic standard before running 55.25 in the quarterfinals. The Borden, Saskatchewan, native finished first overall in both the first round and quarterfinals.
• Laurencin finished second overall in the 100-meter hurdles in Lexington, seeing a time of 12.77 and coming 0.05 seconds shy of setting a personal best to advance to the quarterfinals. The Southfield, Mich., native punched her ticket to the NCAA Championships with a quarterfinals performance of 12.87, finishing third in her heat and seventh overall.
• Jemison qualified for the NCAA Championships with a sixth-place finish in the discus throw at the Preliminary Round, seeing her top mark of 56.96m (186 feet, 10 inches) on her first attempt.
• Ammenhauser finished eighth overall in the triple jump at the Preliminary Round, improving with every jump for a final mark of 12.99m (42-7.5).
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