NC State Wolfpack

May 17, 2012

NCAA East Regional Preliminaries Schedule of Events

RALEIGH, N.C. - The NC State men's and women's track and field earned 26 entries into next week's NCAA East Regional preliminaries in Jacksonville, Fla., the NCAA announced on Thursday afternoon.

"It's a large number of individual entries we have this year," said long-time head coach Rollie Geiger. "Every year, we go into the season with the same goal: To score well at the ACC Championships and advance as many people as we can to the NCAA Championships.

"This is a good first step to getting a lot of people to the NCAAs."

The top 48 times and distances in both of two regions qualify to participate at the two preliminary meets. The East regional, hosted by the University of North Florida, will run from Thursday through Saturday next week at Jacksonville's Hodges Stadium. The top 12 finishers in each of the individual events will advance to the NCAA Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, from June 6-9.

Four of the five runners who advanced to last year's NCAA Championships lead this year's entries for the Wolfpack, including All-Americans Kenyetta Iyevbele and Andie Cozzarelli. Iyevbele was first-team All-American in the 800 meters, while Cozzarelli was a second-team selection in the 10,000 meters. Both junior Ryan Hill and sophomore Andrew Colley were honorable mention All-Americans in the 5,000 meters, while Hill was a first-time All-American earlier this season in the 3,000 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Cozzarelli and Hill both qualified in two events, as did junior jumper Karimah Shepherd. Cozzarelli is qualified in the 5,000 meters and the 10,000 meters. Hill is qualified in the 5,000 meters again and in the 1,500 meters. He owns the NC State record in both events.

Hill will be joined in the 5,000 meters by teammates Colley and seniors Bobby Moldovan and Sandy Roberts.

Senior Patrick Campbell qualified in the 10,000 meters and junior Brian Himelright will make his second consecutive appearance in the regionals in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Jumpers Kris Kornegay-Gober and Kwame Boatwright qualified in the men's high jump and triple jump, respectively. Throwers Nathaniel Williams and Jule Rich qualified in the men's discus.

For the Wolfpack women, Iyevbele will look to repeat her All-America performance from last year, when she advanced from the regionals and finished seventh at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800 meters. Teammate Tiayonna Blackmon will also compete in the 800 meters.

Shepherd will compete in both the women's long jump and the triple jump. Junior teammate Jazueline Daniels also qualified in the triple jump. Sophomore Lacey Shuman will compete in the high jump. Cozzarelli will be joined in the distance events by freshman Joanna Thompson, who qualified for the 10,000 meters and junior Erin Mercer and sophomore Samantha Norman, who both qualified in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Redshirt freshman Tremanisha Taylor will compete in both the shot put and the discus, while senior Lawanda Henry will compete in the shot and senior Brittany Hampton will compete in the discus.

NC State's 2012 NCAA East Regional Preliminaries qualifiers

Men
Player	Event (s)	Year	Top mark (s)	National rank
Ryan Hill	1,500m	Jr.	13:33.23	6th
	5,000m		3:39.58	5th
Patrick Campbell	10,000m	Sr.	29:43.36	93rd
Andrew Colley	5,000m	Soph.	13:49.61	32nd
Bobby Moldovan	5,000m	Sr.	14:00.90	67th
Sandy Roberts	5,000m	Sr.	13:59.93	62nd
Brian Himelright	Steeplechase	Jr.	8:56.46	49th
Kris Kornegay-Gober	High jump	Jr.	7' 03.00"	13th
Kwame Boatwright	Triple jump	Sr.	50' 02.00"	73rd
Nathaniel Williams	Discus	Soph.	189' 01.00"	16th
Jule Rich	Discus	RS-Fr.	170' 06.00"	108th
Women
Player	Event (s)	Year	Top mark (s)
Kenyetta Iyevbele	800m	Soph.	2:03.88	9th
Tiayonna Blackmon	800m	Sr.	2:06.95	64th
Andie Cozzarelli	5,000m	Jr.	16:29.65	89th
	10,000m		33:26.45	15th
Joanna Thompson	10,000m	Fr.	34:02.39	36th
Erin Mercer	Steeplechase	Soph.	10:22.17	49th
Samantha Norman	Steeplechase	Soph.	10:25.32	61st
Karimah Shepherd	Long jump	Jr.	20' 03.75"	45th
	Triple jump		41' 03.25"	74th
Jazueline Daniels	Triple jump	Jr.	41' 02.50"	77th
Tremanisha Taylor	Discus	RS-Fr.	175' 01.00"	28th
	Shot put		53' 11.25"	21st
Brittany Hampton	Discus	Sr.	167' 06.00"	50th
Lawanda Henry	Shot put	Sr.	53' 00.75"	28th