The University of Louisville’s track and field teams added another five entries in the NCAA Outdoor Championships after the men’s competition concluded at the NCAA East Region Preliminaries in Jacksonville, Florida. The men’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams both qualified for the national meet, along with three individual athletes who secured their bids to the championship in Austin.
Senior Trey Allen cleared the final bar of 2.14m (7-0.25) on the high jump to become one of nine competitors among the 12 national qualifiers to ensure his third straight trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The men’s 4x100m relay team of Nolan Macklin, Cameron Miller, Jeremiah Willis, and Sterling Warner-Savage stuns the competition by clocking a time of 39.26 seconds to place second in their heat and third in the overall field, qualifying them for the national meet.
Warner-Savage powered out of the blocks in the 100m dash and clocked a wind-assisted time of 10.07 to secure his first career appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Miller followed suit shortly after, winning the first heat of the men’s 200m event with a wind-aided 20.14 time that clinched a return trip for the redshirt junior to the NCAA national meet.
The team of Noah Carmichael, Miller, Robert Joseph, and Isiah Pantiere clinched the final spot in the men’s 4x400m relay at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:09.19, with an electric final kick from Pantiere bringing the Cardinals from fifth in the heat to third over the last 100 meters.
The Cardinals will take on five more events on the final day of the preliminaries for the NCAA East Region, with Maddie Horne and Katherine Coffey leading the women’s discus throw, followed by Soledad Jean and the women’s high jump. Later, Katie Martin is slated to close out the meet for Louisville in the quarterfinals of the women’s 400m hurdles.
The University of Louisville track and field team has been actively competing since the 1920s. It is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The program has a strong tradition of excellence, with many athletes making it to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and winning several championship titles.
