Track & Field ACC Indoor Championships [Blacksburg, VA]: Feb 21-23

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ACC Championships Await - Syracuse University Athletics

MEN'S MEET BREAKDOWN:

• Chris Tucker will be the lone Orange representative in the 60-meter dash, an event where each heat winner plus the next-four fastest times advance.
• Brandon Williams will compete in the 200, attempting to advance by being one of the eight fastest based on time.
• Noah Beveridge, Michael Phillips, Simon Smith, Nathan Henderson and Aidan Tooker will compete in the mile, with Orange representation in each heat and Beveridge and Philips doubling up. The top-two from each of the four heats and next-two fastest times will advance. Tooker, the league's only sub-four minute miler this season enters as the favorite. Philips is the top-true freshman in the event, with a seed time of 4:02.57.
• Tooker will then attempt a difficult mile/3000-meter double. He'll be joined by Phillips in attempting that feat. The duo is in the first heat of the event.
• Noah Affolder and Iliass Aoiuani represent 'Cuse in the second heat, with the third and fourth-fastest times, respectively. Nahom Solomon of Georgia Tech is the favorite based on time.
• Aouani is also one of the top-three seeds in the men's 5k, where he'll be joined by Affolder, Joe Dragon, Kevin James and Dominic Hockenbury.
• Matt Moore, the defending silver medalist in the 60-meter hurdles, leads four Syracuse runners into the 60-meter hurdles. However, a bad seed draw has all-four in the same preliminary heat. The winner of each heat, plus the next-five fastest times advance to Saturday, providing hope for 'Cuse to place multiple people in the finals. Florida State's Trey Cunningham (7.53) has the best time to date and is in heat one. Heat two features Moore, Chevis Armstead, Richard Floyd and Andrew Aguilera.

WOMEN'S MEET BREAKDOWN:

• In the women's 60-meter dash, Eunice Boateng and Dasia Pressley will be the Orange representatives. The two are running in heats one and three of the event. The winner of each heat, plus next-four fastest times will advance.
• Kadejhia Sellers headlines the 200, with the ninth-fastest time in the conference this year. She'll be joined by Alexis Crosby, Pressley and Boateng in the event.
• Sellers. In both the 200 and 400, the top-eight will advance based on time.
• While she's the Orange's top performer in the 200, she's perhaps a league favorite in the 400. Entering with the best seed time to date, Sellers will run in the second heat of the prelims. Miami's Brittny Ellis has a time 0.01 seconds behind Sellers, who'll run in heat five. Crosby and Cheyenne Trigg have also qualified in the 400 for the Orange.
• Melissa Lodge and Abigail Spiers will race in the women's mile. The event features three heats, with the top-two from the heats and the next-four fastest times advancing to Saturday.
• The 3000-meter run is loaded with Orange, headlined by Paige Stoner, who is in the seeded heat, along with Laura Dickinson and Rachel Bonner. The one-race, two heat final, has Stoner as the fifth-fastest performer in the league to date (9:06.03). Louisville's Dorcas Wasike (8:48.92) has the top seed. In addition to Stoner, Bonner and Dickinson, Madeleine Davison and Ellie Lawler will compete in the first heat.
• The 5k also features lots of Orange. Stoner is one-of-three competitors to go sub-16 minutes in the event this season, along with Notre Dame's Jacqueline Gaughan and Wasike, who is again the top-seed. Stoner will compete with Dickinson and Davison in the seeded race. Emma Wilson and Mary Malone will race in the first heat.
• Aviana Goode posted the fifth-best high jump mark to date in the league this season at 1.71 meters last week. Kenya Livingston of Clemson has the best jump at 1.79 meters.
• Goode will also attempt the pentathlon, the first multi-event performer since the Orange joined the league in 2013.

 

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And the race is on with Knight commenting. SU has four runners in the race.

 

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Stoner won the womens' 5000

 

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Stoner Wins ACC Title! - Syracuse University Athletics

 

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