EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Men’s and Women’s Track & Field learned Tuesday afternoon that three of its student-athletes had made the cut to compete at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships March 11-12 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Junior All-American Titus Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee) qualified in the men’s 3,000 and 5,000 meter races, while senior All-America Jennifer Comastri(Indianapolis, Indiana) and freshman Cameron Hough (Olney, Illinois) qualified in the women’s 5,000 meters.
Winders, the co-Great Lakes Valley Conference Track Athlete of the Year after winning three titles at last weekend’s GLVC Indoor Championships, ranks third in the 3,000 meters with his adjusted time of 7:54.07. He is 12th in the 5,000-meter field with his time of 13:56.82.
Comastri ranks 14th in the 19-competitor field in the 5,000 meters with a time of 16:44.91, while Hough’s adjusted time of 16:48.17 puts her at No. 18 in the field.
This marks the third straight year Comastri has qualified for nationals during the indoor season. She earned All-America honors in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters after the meet was canceled due to COVID in 2020 and was a first-team All-American in the 5,000 meters a year ago after finishing fourth in the event at the 2021 NCAA II Indoor Championships.
Hough is making her first trip to nationals in track & field after earning All-America honors on the cross country course last fall.
Winders, who was named GLVC Track Athlete of the Week three times this season, is making his second trip to indoor nationals after earning All-America honors in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters two years ago.
The men’s 5,000 meters are scheduled for March 11 at 5:55 p.m. (CST), while the women’s 5,000 meters follows at 6:15 p.m. The men’s 3,000 meters are scheduled for March 12 at 7:05 p.m.
