FLORIDA STATE TRACK & FIELD 2019 NCAA East Preliminary • May 23-25 • Hodges Stadium, Jacksonville, Fla. Schedule: When the Noles Compete Path to NCAA Championships begins at East Preliminary Thursday, May 23 Florida State’s seventh-ranked women FSU All-Time East Qualifiers Time Event FSU entries and 19th-ranked men will be well-repre- Year Men Women Total sented when the NCAA East Preliminary 12:00 pm Hammer (m) Tirado 2019 18 23 41 meet opens Thursday at the University 12:00 pm Javelin (w) Paredes 2018 20 17 37 of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium. The 3:30 pm High Jump (w) Maczuga 2017 18 15 33 three-day meet will pare the fields of 48 3:30 pm Long Jump (m) Irving 2016 12 17 29 athletes in 18 individual events, and 24 4:00 pm Hammer (w) Kanuchova, Maffo 2015 24 19 43 teams in two relays to 12. 5:30 pm 1500 (w-1st round) Skyring, Mooney, Judd 2014 16 20 36 6:00 pm 1500 (m-1st round) Szogi The top 12 from the NCAA East and 2013 19 19 38 6:30 pm 100 (w- 1st round) Seymour, Kirkland NCAA West Preliminary meets will ad- 2012 24 16 40 6:45 pm Long Jump (w) Sow, Petrokaite vance to the NCAA Championships, June 2011 24 16 40 6:55 pm 100 (m- 1st round) Ewers, Rincher, Matherson, 5-8 at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, 2010 19 16 35 Timpson, Gay, Antoine Texas. 7:20 pm 400 (w-1st round) Davis, Caldwell Collectively, the Noles boast 41 qualifiers to the NCAA East Preliminary; the 7:45 pm 400 (m-1st round) Butler, Fearrington second-largest combined total since the current East-West format was adopted 9:00 pm 10,000 (w) Mircheva, Funderburk in 2010. The FSU women enter the meet with an all-time high 23 qualifiers; three Friday, May 24 more than their previous best back in 2014. 12:00 pm Discus (w) Love While both teams feature balanced representation, the women have qualifiers 4:30 pm 100 Hurdles (w-1st round) Jones, Miller across all disciplines: sprints/hurdes; middle distance, distance, throws and 5:00 pm 110 Hurdles (m-1st round) Cunningham jumps. In fact, the Noles women have athletes competing in 14 of 20 events 5:00 pm Pole Vault (w) Breske which will be contest. FSU’s men will be represented in 12 of 20 events. 5:45 pm 400 (m-quarterfinal) Butler, Fearrington 6:00 pm 100 (w-quarterfinal) Seymour, Kirkland What 2 Watch 4 6:15 pm 100 (m-quarterfinal) Rincher, Timpson, Ewers Among the noteworthy Noles storylines to follow this weekend are: 7:30 pm 200m (w-1st round) Seymour, Kirkland • FSU’s seventh-ranked women enter the NCAA East Preliminary with a lot of 7:55 pm 200 (m-1st round) Ewers momentum after claiming the program’s fifth ACC Outdoor Championship at 9:00 pm Steeplechase (m-quarterfinal) Hall Virginia two weeks ago. The Noles led wire-to-wire and won by 41.5 points; Saturday, May 25 • The 19th-ranked men finished third at the ACC Outdoor Championship meet but parlayed some national-level performances into a 17-spot move in the 2:45 pm Shot Put (m-1st round) Lawrence USTFCCCA Ratings Index, returning to the top-25 after a three-week hiatus; 3:00 pm Triple Jump (w-1st round) Green • The Noles have reason to expect a strong group of qualifiers to advance 6:00 pm 4x100 Relay (w-quarterfinal) FSU from Jacksonville to the NCAA Championships. Not only do they have 6:15 pm 4x100 Relay (m-quarterfinal) FSU numbers (41) competing at the East Preliminary, but enter the meet with 17 6:30 pm Triple Jump (m-1st round) Wallace, Irving top-12 seeds between the women and men, 15 of which are top-10 seeds; 6:30 pm 1500 (w-quarterfinal) Judd, Skyring • Experience is also on the Noles’ side. Nine of FSU’s 16 rostered men and 14 7:05 pm 100 Hurdles (w-quarterfinal) tbd of 21 the Noles women have NCAA Preliminary round experience. More im- 7:20 pm 110 Hurdles (m-quarterfinal) tbd portantly, 11 women and six men have advanced to NCAA Championships, 7:35 pm 200 (w-quarterfinal) tbd including 12 who have previously scored at the national meet; 7:50 pm 200 (m-quarterfinal) tbd • Six FSU women - Ka’Tia Seymour (100,4x100), Cortney Jones (100 hurdles, 4x100), Lauri Paredes (javelin), Jayla Kirkland (4x100), Shauna Live Results Helps (4x100) and Rougi Sow (long jump) - scored at the 2018 NCAA https://dt8v5llb2dwhs.cloudfront.net/East/index.htm Outdoor Championships. Sow’s performance came with South Carolina last year. Also, Veronika Kanuchova (hammer) was a 2017 NCAA Champion- FloTrack Live Stream ships scorer, missing last season as a medical hardship; https://www.flotrack.org/live/12511-2019-di-ncaa-east-preliminary-round • On the men’s side, Andre Ewers (100, 200, 4x100), Trey Cunningham Requires subscription. (schedule on page 2) (110 hurdles), Darryl Haraway (4x100), Darryl Gay (4x100) and Michael Timpson Jr. (4x100), were 2018 NCAA Championship scorers. Timpson did so competing for the University of Florida; • ACC Championship Track MVPs Ka’Tia Seymour and Andre Ewers will be the busiest Noles at the East Preliminary, with each competing in the 100, 200 and anchoring the 4x100 relay. Jayla Kirkland is the only other athlete scheduled for the sprint triple (100, 200, 4x100); • Top-seeded 100-meter hurdler Cortney Jones will also compete in the 4x100 relay. Also double-dipping are Karimah Davis (400, 4x100), Bryand @FSU_Track Rincher (100, 4x100), Jhevaughn Matherson (100, 4x100), Michael Media Contact: Bob Thomas Timpson Jr. (100, 4x100) and Jacore Irving (long jump, triple jump); Associate Sports Information Director • Among the first-time East Preliminary qualifiers, Sanjae Lawrence (13th, 850-694-1768 / [email protected] shot put) and Jacore Irving (17th, triple jump) are the highest seeded men and Elizabeth Funderburk (12th, 10,000) is the highest seeded woman; #Noles @fsu_track Continued on page 6 2019 NCAA East Preliminary FSU Men’s Entries FloTrack providing live coverage of NCAA East FSU Women’s Entries Rank Rank Event SB East/NCAA Event SB East/NCAA 100m 100m Andre Ewers 10.06 6/9 Ka’Tia Seymour 11.08 5/6 Bryand Rincher 10.21 21/29 Jayla Kirkland 11.41 25/49 Jhevaughn Matherson 10.24 25/40 200m Michael Timpson 10.29 29/50 Ka’Tia Seymour 22.96 10/20 Darryl Gay 10.32 34/60 Jayla Kirkland 23.36 26/61 Roodolph Antoine 10.38 41/87 400m 200m Karimah Davis 53.18 22/56 Andre Ewers 20.31 5/8 Janae Caldwell 53.62 37/80 400m 1500m DaeQwan Butler 46.29 25/46 Maudie Skyring 4:16.12 5/19 Kyle Fearrington 46.60 38/79 Megan Mooney 4:21.30 34/93 1500m Jodie Judd 4:21.50 36/95 Istvan Szogi 3:46.16 43/nr 10,000m 110m Hurdles FloTrack will live stream all three days of the NCAA East Preliminary from the Univer- Militsa Mircheva 32:30.07 2/7 Trey Cunningham 13.43 4/4 sity of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. Watching the coverage will Elizabeth Funderburk 33:31.05 12/29 3000m Steeplechase require a subscription, which is available through the broadcast links below. 100m Hurdles Michael Hall 8:55.57 27/60 FloTrack’s Lincoln Shryack and Florida native Ricky Quintana will provide the com- Cortney Jones 12.72 1/4 4x100m Relay mentary throughout the three-day meet, which will determine the NCAA field. Ashley Miller 13.44 29/58 Florida State 39.14 3/8 4x100m Relay Long Jump Coverage will air Thursday, May 23 through Saturday, May 25. A complete start sched- Florida State 43.84 7/12 Jacore Irving 7.56m 33/60 ule for the broadcasts can be found below. High Jump Triple Jump Kayla Maczuga 1.75m 46/71 Armani Wallace 16.88m 2/2 Broadcast Links Pole Vault Jacore Irving 15.84m 17/29 Thursday 3:30 pm https://noles.co/2VzGn2y Nicole Breske 3.97m 48/nr Shot Put Friday 4:30 pm https://noles.co/2VzGn2y Long Jump Sanjae Lawrence 18.95m 13/32 Saturday 3 pm https://noles.co/2VzGn2y Rougui Sow 6.48m 6/9 Hammer Jogaile Petrokaite 6.44m 8/12 Brandon Tirado 64.80m 20/41 Live Results https://noles.co/2EhZ31b Triple Jump Trentorria Green 12.88m 21/47 Note: All rankings come directly from the Discus TFRRS descending order lists, reflecting Noles in the USTFCCCA Ratings Index The Florida State men’s and women’s teams Shanice Love 61.54m 1/3 the top 48 marks in the NCAA East and the Hammer Throw top 95 marks in the NCAA. have held prominent positions in the weekly US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches As- Veronika Kanuchova 67.21m 4/8 sociation (USTFCCCA) Ratings Index throughout the regular season. The men opened Nadia Maffo 64.53m 12/20 Javelin at No. 11, were ranked as high as No. 7 but fell from the top-25 for 3 weeks. They check in at No. 19. The women opened at No. 6 and with the exception of one week, have Lauri Paredes 55.38m 4/8 remained in the Top-10 throughout, checking in at No. 7. Here’s a week-by-week look: Note: All rankings come directly from the TEAM PS WK1 WK2 WK3 WK4 WK5 WK6 WK7 WK8 TFRRS descending order lists, reflecting FSU Men 11 7 8 8 35 28 37 20 19 the top 48 marks in the NCAA East and the FSU Women 6 6 7 8 6 10 11 10 7 top 95 marks in the NCAA.