Friday, March 10
Albuquerque, N.M.
ALL DAY
Indiana University
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NCAA Indoor Championships
Men’s DMR Takes 5th, Fernandez-Sola 9th at NCAA Indoor Championships
3/11/2023 2:00:00 AM | Track and Field
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Men's Distance Medley Relay has been a staple of the Ron Helmer tenure at Indiana. It's a legacy event in Bloomington.
In his final indoor meet as a collegiate coach, the Hoosiers added one more big performance to a career littered with outstanding relay teams.
IU's quartet of Camden Marshall, Shaton Vaughn, Parker Raymond and Jake Gebhardt battled an all-star field of runners to score a fifth-place finish in 9:33.32. Originally sixth, the Hoosiers were bumped up a spot after Tennessee was disqualified.
Marshall opened the relay, covering 1200 meters in 2:56.29. Vaughn split 47.22 on the 400-meter leg with Raymond carrying in 1:49.26 at 800 meters. Gebhardt passed North Carolina and Arkansas on the anchor leg to pull the Hoosiers into the top half of the field.
Across 16 seasons as head coach in Bloomington, Helmer has sent 13 men's DMR teams to the national meet and has scored in 11 of them. His team in 2020 was projected to score before the meet was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This was the seventh top-5 finish at the national meet for the Hoosiers in the event under Helmer. IU was top-5 in four-consecutive years from 2011-2014 and then again in 2017 and 2019.
On the women's side, Paola Fernandez-Sola made her first career collegiate final with her appearance in the final section of the Long Jump.
She entered the final round in seventh place but finished ninth (6.39m/20-11.75) on tie-breaking criteria. Pittsburgh's Ilse Steigenga recorded an equal mark but finished in eighth due to a better second jump in the series.
Fernandez-Sola becomes the first All-American indoors in the Women's Long Jump since Rose Richmond finished second in 2003. She is one of just three All-Americans indoors in the event in program history, joining Richmond and DeDee Nathan (1988 and 1999).
She was one of two athletes in the event to record a clean mark on all six attempts and matched her personal best on the opening jump of the series.
Despite entering the meet seeded 16th in the nation, Fernandez-Sola outperformed her qualifying position by seven spots.
Jayden Ulrich will close out IU's time at the NCAA Indoor Championships tomorrow afternoon in the Women's Shot Put at 6:00 PM EST/4:00 PM MST.
In his final indoor meet as a collegiate coach, the Hoosiers added one more big performance to a career littered with outstanding relay teams.
IU's quartet of Camden Marshall, Shaton Vaughn, Parker Raymond and Jake Gebhardt battled an all-star field of runners to score a fifth-place finish in 9:33.32. Originally sixth, the Hoosiers were bumped up a spot after Tennessee was disqualified.
Marshall opened the relay, covering 1200 meters in 2:56.29. Vaughn split 47.22 on the 400-meter leg with Raymond carrying in 1:49.26 at 800 meters. Gebhardt passed North Carolina and Arkansas on the anchor leg to pull the Hoosiers into the top half of the field.
Across 16 seasons as head coach in Bloomington, Helmer has sent 13 men's DMR teams to the national meet and has scored in 11 of them. His team in 2020 was projected to score before the meet was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This was the seventh top-5 finish at the national meet for the Hoosiers in the event under Helmer. IU was top-5 in four-consecutive years from 2011-2014 and then again in 2017 and 2019.
On the women's side, Paola Fernandez-Sola made her first career collegiate final with her appearance in the final section of the Long Jump.
She entered the final round in seventh place but finished ninth (6.39m/20-11.75) on tie-breaking criteria. Pittsburgh's Ilse Steigenga recorded an equal mark but finished in eighth due to a better second jump in the series.
Fernandez-Sola becomes the first All-American indoors in the Women's Long Jump since Rose Richmond finished second in 2003. She is one of just three All-Americans indoors in the event in program history, joining Richmond and DeDee Nathan (1988 and 1999).
She was one of two athletes in the event to record a clean mark on all six attempts and matched her personal best on the opening jump of the series.
Despite entering the meet seeded 16th in the nation, Fernandez-Sola outperformed her qualifying position by seven spots.
Jayden Ulrich will close out IU's time at the NCAA Indoor Championships tomorrow afternoon in the Women's Shot Put at 6:00 PM EST/4:00 PM MST.
| NCAA Indoor Championships: March 10th | |
| Event | Athletes: Mark |
| Long Jump (W) | 9. Paola Fernandez-Sola: 6.39m/20-11.75 | Tied Personal Best - Second Team All-American |
| DMR (M) | 5. Indiana: 9:33.32 | First Team All-Americans - Camden Marshall, Shaton Vaughn, Parker Raymond, Jake Gebhardt |
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