Indiana University Athletics
Friday, March 10
Albuquerque, N.M.
ALL DAY
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NCAA Indoor Championships
NCAA Indoor Championships Await Three Hoosier Entries
3/9/2023 10:30:00 AM | Track and Field
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The nation's best will head to Albuquerque, N.M. this weekend in search of the ultimate prize: a national championship.
The Indiana Track and Field teams will send three entries including Paola Fernandez-Sola (Long Jump), Jayden Ulrich (Shot Put) and a quartet of athletes on its Men's Distance Medley Relay team.
IU's last NCAA Indoor National Champion came in 2013 when Derek Drouin won his third of three indoor titles in the High Jump.
Action this weekend will take place on Friday, March 10th and Saturday, March 11th. Fernandez-Sola will kick off things Friday with the DMR set to take center stage on Friday evening. Ulrich will wrap things up Saturday afternoon.
THE MEET
Location: Albuquerque, N.M. (Albuquerque Convention Center)
Dates: March 10th and 11th
Start 10:00 AM-8:45 PM MT (Friday), 10:30 AM-8:20 PM (Saturday)
Live Results: Flash Results
Day 1 Stream (Early Session): https://es.pn/3F27BIR
Day 1 Stream (Late Session): https://es.pn/3yyWinX
Day 2 Stream (Early Session): https://es.pn/3ZNLjT7
Day 2 Stream (Late Session): https://es.pn/3yhcNEY
THE HOOSIER LINEUP
IU will be represented by three entries at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. this weekend.
Behind a strong showing in the regular season, the Hoosiers earned bids in the Women's Long Jump (Paola Fernandez-Sola), Women's Shot Put (Jayden Ulrich) and Men's Distance Medley Relay (Camden Marshall, Shaton Vaughn, Parker Raymond and Jake Gebhardt).
The Hoosiers have qualified a Men's DMR team through to the national meet for the 13th time under Head Coach Ron Helmer, the second most in the nation since he took over before the 2008 season.
IU's six-consecutive appearances in the event marks the nation's longest active streak. The lineup to toe the line feature's Marshall on the 1200-meter leg, Vaughn at 400 meters, Raymond at 800 meters and Gebhardt carrying the stick on anchor leg.
Gebhardt anchored the relay in 3:54 at the Alex Wilson Invite while Marshall has run 1:47 (800m)/3:57 (Mile) this year. Vaughn ran 47.8 in the 400 meters at the Big Ten meet and Raymond has been 1:49 at 800 meters this year.
Ulrich qualified through in the Shot Put with the 11th-best throw in the nation this year, a personal best of 17.56m/57-7.5 to finish third at the Big Ten Indoor Championships.
She will be making her NCAA Indoor Championships debut. She was a double qualifier in the Shot Put and Discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as a true freshman in 2022.
The Hoosiers have sent at least one entry to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the Women's Shot Put in four of the last five years. A legacy built by Khayla Dawson and Maddy Pollard has now been continued by Ulrich who will look for her first First Team All-American honor.
Fernandez-Sola was the final qualifier into the field in the Women's Long Jump. She used a qualifying tie-breaker to edge out New Mexico's Elizabeth White for a spot at the national meet.
The San Juan, Puerto Rico native was the Big Ten runner-up and owns a season's best jump of 6.39m/20-11.75 which ranks second in program history.
She is the first Hoosier to qualify in the Women's Long Jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in 20 years.
2023 BIG TEN INDOOR RECAP
IU's women finished fifth while the men were fourth over the course of the weekend.
Hope Purcell in the Pentathlon and Nathan Stone in the Pole Vault were Big Ten Champions. On the weekend, IU won two gold medals, five silver medals and three bronze medals.
Jake Gebhardt scored 16 points after putting together a pair of runner-up performances in the 3000 meters and 5000 meters. Paola Fernandez-Sola (Long Jump), Sarah Schmitt (5000 meters) and Antonio Laidler (60 meters) also were runners-up in their events.
Austin Haskett (Mile), Jenna Barker (3000 meters) and Jayden Ulrich all outperformed their seeded marks to take bronze medals and six points each.
Gebhardt (16), Laidler (13) and Schmitt (11) all scored in double-digits individually for the Hoosiers.
Combined with their performances in the regular season and at the conference meet, the Hoosiers earned three entries to the NCAA Indoor Championships.
To qualify, an individual had to be top-16 in their respective event and a relay had to be top-12 in the nation.
Jayden Ulrich comes into the weekend seeded 11th in the Shot Put, the Men's DMR seeded 10th and Paola Fernandez-Sola seeded 16th in the Long Jump.
NEWS AND NOTES
Indiana Men's DMR at NCAA Indoors (since 2008)
• 2008: Did Not Qualify
• 2009: 7th Place
• 2010: 7th Place
• 2011: 2nd Place
• 2012: 2nd Place
• 2013: 4th Place
• 2014: 3rd Place
• 2015: Did Not Qualify
• 2016: Did Not Qualify
• 2017: 5th Place
• 2018: 7th Place
• 2019: 4th Place
• 2020: Qualified, NCAA's Canceled
• 2021: 7th Place
• 2022: 10th Place
• 2023: TBD
Indiana Women's First Team Indoor All-Americans since 2017
• Maddy Pollard, 2021 (Shot Put, 7th)
• Maddy Pollard, 2020 (Shot Put)
• Khayla Dawson, 2020 (Shot Put)
• Khayla Dawson, 2019 (Shot Put, 6th)
• Kelsey Harris, 2019 (800m, 7th)
• DMR, 2019 (8th)
• DMR, 2018 (4th)
• Katherine Receveur, 2017 (3000m, 6th)
The Indiana Track and Field teams will send three entries including Paola Fernandez-Sola (Long Jump), Jayden Ulrich (Shot Put) and a quartet of athletes on its Men's Distance Medley Relay team.
IU's last NCAA Indoor National Champion came in 2013 when Derek Drouin won his third of three indoor titles in the High Jump.
Action this weekend will take place on Friday, March 10th and Saturday, March 11th. Fernandez-Sola will kick off things Friday with the DMR set to take center stage on Friday evening. Ulrich will wrap things up Saturday afternoon.
THE MEET
Location: Albuquerque, N.M. (Albuquerque Convention Center)
Dates: March 10th and 11th
Start 10:00 AM-8:45 PM MT (Friday), 10:30 AM-8:20 PM (Saturday)
Live Results: Flash Results
Day 1 Stream (Early Session): https://es.pn/3F27BIR
Day 1 Stream (Late Session): https://es.pn/3yyWinX
Day 2 Stream (Early Session): https://es.pn/3ZNLjT7
Day 2 Stream (Late Session): https://es.pn/3yhcNEY
THE HOOSIER LINEUP
IU will be represented by three entries at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. this weekend.
Behind a strong showing in the regular season, the Hoosiers earned bids in the Women's Long Jump (Paola Fernandez-Sola), Women's Shot Put (Jayden Ulrich) and Men's Distance Medley Relay (Camden Marshall, Shaton Vaughn, Parker Raymond and Jake Gebhardt).
The Hoosiers have qualified a Men's DMR team through to the national meet for the 13th time under Head Coach Ron Helmer, the second most in the nation since he took over before the 2008 season.
IU's six-consecutive appearances in the event marks the nation's longest active streak. The lineup to toe the line feature's Marshall on the 1200-meter leg, Vaughn at 400 meters, Raymond at 800 meters and Gebhardt carrying the stick on anchor leg.
Gebhardt anchored the relay in 3:54 at the Alex Wilson Invite while Marshall has run 1:47 (800m)/3:57 (Mile) this year. Vaughn ran 47.8 in the 400 meters at the Big Ten meet and Raymond has been 1:49 at 800 meters this year.
Ulrich qualified through in the Shot Put with the 11th-best throw in the nation this year, a personal best of 17.56m/57-7.5 to finish third at the Big Ten Indoor Championships.
She will be making her NCAA Indoor Championships debut. She was a double qualifier in the Shot Put and Discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as a true freshman in 2022.
The Hoosiers have sent at least one entry to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the Women's Shot Put in four of the last five years. A legacy built by Khayla Dawson and Maddy Pollard has now been continued by Ulrich who will look for her first First Team All-American honor.
Fernandez-Sola was the final qualifier into the field in the Women's Long Jump. She used a qualifying tie-breaker to edge out New Mexico's Elizabeth White for a spot at the national meet.
The San Juan, Puerto Rico native was the Big Ten runner-up and owns a season's best jump of 6.39m/20-11.75 which ranks second in program history.
She is the first Hoosier to qualify in the Women's Long Jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in 20 years.
2023 BIG TEN INDOOR RECAP
IU's women finished fifth while the men were fourth over the course of the weekend.
Hope Purcell in the Pentathlon and Nathan Stone in the Pole Vault were Big Ten Champions. On the weekend, IU won two gold medals, five silver medals and three bronze medals.
Jake Gebhardt scored 16 points after putting together a pair of runner-up performances in the 3000 meters and 5000 meters. Paola Fernandez-Sola (Long Jump), Sarah Schmitt (5000 meters) and Antonio Laidler (60 meters) also were runners-up in their events.
Austin Haskett (Mile), Jenna Barker (3000 meters) and Jayden Ulrich all outperformed their seeded marks to take bronze medals and six points each.
Gebhardt (16), Laidler (13) and Schmitt (11) all scored in double-digits individually for the Hoosiers.
Combined with their performances in the regular season and at the conference meet, the Hoosiers earned three entries to the NCAA Indoor Championships.
To qualify, an individual had to be top-16 in their respective event and a relay had to be top-12 in the nation.
Jayden Ulrich comes into the weekend seeded 11th in the Shot Put, the Men's DMR seeded 10th and Paola Fernandez-Sola seeded 16th in the Long Jump.
NEWS AND NOTES
Indiana Men's DMR at NCAA Indoors (since 2008)
• 2008: Did Not Qualify
• 2009: 7th Place
• 2010: 7th Place
• 2011: 2nd Place
• 2012: 2nd Place
• 2013: 4th Place
• 2014: 3rd Place
• 2015: Did Not Qualify
• 2016: Did Not Qualify
• 2017: 5th Place
• 2018: 7th Place
• 2019: 4th Place
• 2020: Qualified, NCAA's Canceled
• 2021: 7th Place
• 2022: 10th Place
• 2023: TBD
Indiana Women's First Team Indoor All-Americans since 2017
• Maddy Pollard, 2021 (Shot Put, 7th)
• Maddy Pollard, 2020 (Shot Put)
• Khayla Dawson, 2020 (Shot Put)
• Khayla Dawson, 2019 (Shot Put, 6th)
• Kelsey Harris, 2019 (800m, 7th)
• DMR, 2019 (8th)
• DMR, 2018 (4th)
• Katherine Receveur, 2017 (3000m, 6th)
| NCAA Indoor Championships: March 10th | |
| Time | Event: Athletes |
| 4:00 PM MT | Women's Long Jump: Paola Fernandez-Sola |
| 8:45 PM MT | Men's DMR: Camden Marshall, Shaton Vaughn, Parker Raymond, Jake Gebhardt |
| NCAA Indoor Championships: March 11th | |
| Time | Event: Athletes |
| 4:00 PM MT | Women's Shot Put: Jayden Ulrich |
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