Three Wolverines Selected for NCAA Indoor Championships
3/4/2025 10:30:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Aasia Laurencin, Savannah Sutherland, and Elizabeth Tapper of the University of Michigan women's track and field team have qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships, the NCAA announced on Tuesday (March 4). The championships will be held at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Va., on Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15.
Laurencin (60-meter hurdles) and Sutherland (400-meter dash) will both be competing at NCAAs for the third straight year, while Tapper (shot put) will be making her championships debut.
Laurencin finished second in the 60-meter hurdles at the Big Ten Championships, just 0.005 seconds shy of defending her 2024 title. The graduate student's personal-best time of 7.97 seconds set the St. Lucia national record and is the second time in her career that Laurencin has broken eight seconds. The time also comes in at No. 3 in the NCAA and is tied for No. 23 in the world. Laurencin finished sixth in last year's NCAA Championships finals.
Sutherland is the back-to-back Big Ten 400-meter dash champion, claiming the 2025 title with a time of 51.74 to top second-place finisher Yemi John of USC. The senior came 0.33 seconds from tying her personal best with the 13th-fastest time in the NCAA this year. Sutherland finished seventh in last year's championship finals.
Tapper earned bronze in the shot put with a school record mark of 18.26 meters (59 feet, 11 inches), the fifth time this season she has set the program standard. Her mark is 24th all-time in the NCAA, No. 8 in the NCAA this season and is currently 22nd-best in the world.
Action in Virginia Beach will open with the 400-meter dash preliminaries at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 14.
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