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<?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Lincoln?Seven Nebraska athletes were among the accepted entries for this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, the NCAA announced Monday evening. Five Husker men and two women will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., in search of national honors at the University of Arkansas’ Randal Tyson Track Complex Friday through Saturday.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>
Leading the way to the national meet for Nebraska will be three athletes slated to compete in multiple events?senior Nate Probasco and freshmen Lukas Hulett and Scott Wims. Each of the three will run on NU’s No. 9-ranked men’s 4x400-meter relay, along with redshirt freshman Daniel Christensen, while Probasco (ranked 13th of 16) and Wims (ranked 14th of 16) are entered in the 200-meter dash and Hulett in the 400. Hulett was the last of 16 individuals allowed into the 400-meter field.
Coming as no surprise to the Huskers, junior Dusty Jonas’ name was included among the men’s high jump field. Jonas, who earned the squad’s only automatic qualification to the NCAA meet this season, is the nation’s fourth-rated athlete in the event.
Representing the Husker women will be a pair of newcomers to the program in sophomore Brysun Stately and freshman Epley Bullock. Stately gives NU a competitor in the women’s pole vault for the fifth straight indoor season after claiming the fifth-best mark among NCAA women’s athletes in 2007. Bullock will make her first appearance at nationals as the 15th of 18 women’s entries in the high jump.
Nebraska was very close to adding four more men’s athletes to the field, but senior All-Americans Gable Baldwin (pole vault) and Daniel Roper (long jump, triple jump), junior Ben Schutter (heptathlon) and freshman Seth Burney (pole vault) just missed the cut off in their respective events as the top declared athletes excluded.
The NCAA Indoor Championships begin Friday at 9 a.m. with the men’s heptathlon competition. Bullock, Hulett, Probasco and Wims each will initially compete in their individual events on Friday, while Jonas, Stately and the 4x400-meter relay are scheduled for their first action on Saturday.