BLACKSBURG – Following a first-place finish for the men and a third-place finish for the women at the ACC Indoor Championships, a select group of Hokies will head to Birmingham, Alabama for the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships.
Action begins on Friday at 1:00 p.m. ET with the Heptathlon at the Birmingham CrossPlex and will conclude on Saturday with the women's 4x400-meter relays at 7:55 p.m. ET.
ESPN3 will stream the championships live starting at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time March 8 and starting at 5 p.m. Eastern time March 9. A re-air of the championship will take place starting at 10 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, March 10 on ESPN2 and again Monday, March 11 starting at 10 p.m. Eastern time on ESPNU.
One sprinter, two pole vaulters, three distance runners and the women's distance medley relay team will represent the Hokies as they prepare for the NCAAs.
Competing individually, the men will see Jacory Patterson (400), Bashir Mosavel-Lo (800) and Deakin Volz (pole vault), while on the women's side it will be Rachel Baxter (pole vault), Sarah Edwards (mile) and Rachel Pocratsky (800).
The women's distance medley relay team will run Friday evening. The women's DMR is coming off a first-place finish at the ACC Indoor Championships on Feb. 21 with the fourth-fastest time in school history.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Fri. | NCAAs | 1:00 p.m. ET | Live Results | Live Stream
Sat. | NCAAs | 2 p.m. ET | Live Results | Live Stream
Last Friday, the USTFCCCA announced its region award winners and director of track and field and cross country Dave Cianelli was named the Southeast Region's Men's Coach of the Year.
The last time out, six Hokies took gold at the ACCs at Rector Field House, including five NCAA qualifiers in Baxter, Pocratsky, Edwards, Patterson and Volz. The men tallied 117 points, which made it three-straight years in which the men reached the 100-point plateau for indoor, while the women scored 84, which was the most since they won the indoor championships in 2008.
