Nine Clemson Athletes Earn Bids to NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships

March 7, 2011

CLEMSON, SC – The list of accepted declarations for the 2011 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships was released late Monday evening. Clemson will have a total of nine student-athletes – six women and three men – competing at the national meet in College Station, TX on Friday and Saturday, March 11-12. The meet will be held at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium on Texas A&M’s campus.

The Clemson women’s team, rated No. 9 in the latest coaches association computer list, will send athletes in the sprints, hurdles, jumps and throws. Two of them – Stormy Kendrick and April Sinkler – qualified in multiple events. Kendrick, No. 3 nationally in the 60m dash, was also accepted in the 200m dash. She was the ACC champion in the 60 and runner-up in the 200 in late February.

Sinkler will compete in multiple events for the second straight year, the long jump and triple jump. Sinkler auto qualified in the long jump with a season-best 21’1.5″ in a runner-up effort at the ACC Championships. She qualified as an at-large in the triple jump after hitting 42’11.75″ at ACCs. She won her second straight Southeast Region Indoor Field Athlete-of-the-Year honor on Monday as well.

Brianna Rollins is making a return trip to the NCAA Championships to compete again in the 60m hurdles. Rollins hit an automatic time with a school record 8.13 in the prelims at the ACC meet, but she was fourth in the finals. Rollins was an All-American last season as a freshman as the ninth-place finisher.

Jasmine Edgerson will make her first trip to a national championship meet in an individual event. Last season, she was anchor leg for Clemson’s All-America indoor 4×400 meter relay and outdoor 4×100 meter team. Edgerson qualified in the 60 hurdles with an at-large time of 8.17, the second-best time in Clemson history, in an ACC championship effort nine days ago.

Brittney Waller and Marlena Wesh will make their first trip to the NCAA Championships for Clemson. Waller was the ACC champion in the 20-pound weight throw and she ranks second in the Tiger record books for the event. Her best mark this season was a throw of 68’2.5″, the eighth-best mark heading into the national meet. Wesh qualified as an at-large after clocking a Clemson record 53.10 in the 400m dash final to win the ACC championship.

From the 25th-rated men’s team, Spencer Adams, Miller Moss and Justin Murdock will compete for hardware this week. Adams was an at-large qualifier in the 60 hurdles after setting a personal best 7.73 at the Tiger Paw Invitational in early February. He was an indoor All-American in the event last season. Murdock had a 6.65 in the 60m dash, a personal best for the Pasadena, MD native. Murdock has qualified as an individual before, but it was in 2009 as a freshman in the 100m dash outdoors.

Moss enters this week’s meet with the No. 1 overall point value in the heptathlon. In fact, he owns the nation’s top two totals after scoring 5,903 points at the JRF Combined Events Invitational and 5,881 at the ACC Championships. He claimed his first-ever individual conference championship with the latter effort. Moss was an All-American in the event last season as well.