EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The No. 23 University of Southern Indiana men’s track & field team will send four student-athletes to the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships March 9-11 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Senior Chase Broughton (Marengo, Indiana) and junior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) each qualified in three. The duo earned berths in the mile and 3,000-meters, while also being a part of Screaming Eagles’ distance medley relay team that qualified for the event.
The other half of the distance medley relay team is made up of sophomore Tyler Kruse (Indianapolis, Indiana), and freshman Javan Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee).
With the fourth best time in NCAA II this season, the relay team is seeded two seconds behind the nation’s top time in 2017. Individually, Broughton ranks sixth and eighth in the mile and 3,000-meters, while Grau is ninth and 12.
Preliminaries for the mile will take place Thursday, March 9 with finals on Saturday, March 11. The 3,000-meter run will take place near the end of the day on Saturday, while the distance medley relay is the final event on Friday, March 10.
Live results and live video for the NCAA II Indoor Championships will be available at GoUSIEagles.com.
