MEN'S ACCEPTED ENTRANTS | WOMEN'S ACCEPTED ENTRANTS
The Emory University track & field teams saw eight members selected to the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships as selections were announced over the weekend.
Rebekah Bondi was tabbed to a team-leading three events as she will compete individually in both the 100m dash and long jump as well as the 4x100m relay with teammates Michelle Rosenblum, Jessica Barbarosh and Hannah Lansberry. Isabel Saridakis and Annika Urban also were chosen to compete individually in the pole vault and 5000m run events. For the men’s team, Jack Whetstone and Brett Henshey will represent the Eagles in Greensboro with Whetstone to run in the 5000m and Henshey to perform in the high jump.
This year’s NCAA Outdoor Championships will take place Thursday, May 27th through Saturday, May 29th at the Irwin Belk Track in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Bondi enters the meet with a pair of individual top-10 seed times, owning the seventh-best mark in Division III in the long jump at 5.81m and is 10th in the 100m at 12.02. This is the first career selection for her in the long jump event and the second in the 100m as she previously finished 11th at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
The 4x100m relay will be the 10th seeded team as competition begins this week, coming in with a time of 47.65.
Saridakis will be seeded fifth in the pole vault with her seed mark of 3.83m. She was an All-American in the event in 2019, placing fifth overall. For Urban, she makes her first career appearance at the NCAA Championship, earning a bid to the 5000m run. She enters with the 10th-best time in the country at 17:03.81.
Whetstone was the 16th entrant accepted to the 5000m run with his time 14:30.95 as he will make his first-ever NCAA Championships berth. In the high jump, Henshey just made the cut as he was the 17th athlete selected with his seed mark of 2.05m. This is the second time Henshey has qualified for the outdoor high jump, tying for 18th place in 2019.
Thursday’s schedule will feature the finals of the pole vault (11:00 AM) and long jump (5:00 PM) as well as the preliminaries of the 4x100m relay (3:00 PM). On Friday, the high jump prelims and finals will take place starting at 2:30 PM with the prelims of the 100m dash to follow at 3:30 PM. The final day of competition will have the finals of the 4x100m relay (12:05 PM), 100m dash (1:30 PM) and men’s and women’s 5000m run (Women- 3:00 PM / men- 3:25 PM).
The top 19 individual seeds were selected to the women’s championship events with the top 17 being selected for the men’s events. The top 14 teams were picked to compete in the relay events.