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ESU schedule
Friday 3:30 p.m. - O'Connor
Saturday 2:05 p.m. - Berry

EAST STROUDSBURG - Senior Christina O'Connor and junior William Berry will represent East Stroudsburg University at the 2015 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Grand Valley State (Mich.), as the national field was announced on Tuesday afternoon.

O'Connor and Berry are both coming off PSAC championships in the high jump at the PSAC Outdoor Championships at ESU two weeks ago.

O'Connor (Oneonta, N.Y./Oneonta) is making her fifth career trip to the NCAA Championships and is a three-time All-American. She was sixth at the indoor championships in March.

Berry (Magnolia, Del./Caesar Rodney) earned his third career NCAA trip.

Both athletes competed in last year's NCAA Outdoor Championships at Grand Valley, where O'Connor was fifth to earn her second career All-America honor.

O'Connor is tied for sixth on the entry list at 5-8, tied for her outdoor career best, which she cleared at ESU's All-American Meet on April 18.

She won her fifth career PSAC championship (fourth straight) at 5-7 1/4 at Eiler-Martin Stadium on May 1.

O'Connor has qualified for the NCAA DII Championships in five of her final six seasons of competition. She was sixth indoors (5-8) in 2013, ninth indoors (5-7) and fifth outdoors (5-8) in 2014 and sixth indoors (5-8) this season.

The top eight finishers in each event earn first team All-America honors. The ninth through 12th-place finishers will be designated second team All-America.

During the indoor season, she tied the PSAC record at 5-10 to earn the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year, PSAC Indoor Field Athlete of the Year and PSAC Indoor Field Athlete of the Meet at the PSAC Championships.

Earlier this month, she was named ESU's Women's Senior Athlete of the Year and Co-Women's Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year at the Warriors' Athletic Awards Banquet on May 3.

A three-time All-American, she can join former ESU high jumpers Lynn Mayer (6) and her coach, Karen (Way) Gaita (4), as the only four-time All-Americans in ESU women's track and field history.

Berry is tied for 17th on the men's entry list at 6-10 3/4, which tied the school record set by Toby Virgil in 1982, at the All-American Meet on April 18.

He won his second straight PSAC outdoor title at 6-9 3/4 on May 2.

Berry was tied for ninth indoors (6-8 3/4) in 2014 and no-heighted at Grand Valley last spring.

The women's high jump will be contested on Friday, May 22 at 3:30 p.m. The men's high jump is Saturday at 2:05 p.m.

ESU had seven other provisional qualifiers in senior Damien Boham in the 400m (47.67), junior Derrick Washington in the 400m (47.72), sophomore Steven Morgan in the 110m hurdles (14.32), sophomore Ronald D'Eliseo in the 400m hurdles (52.83), graduate student Jack Rosenstein in the hammer (182-0), senior Mike Smith in the shot put (52-4 3/4) and junior Eric Conard in the decathlon (6,209).


Notes:

* O'Connor is one of 6 women's high jumpers to compete at the NCAA Championships for ESU, and one of 5 who have earned All-America honors.
* ESU's high jump coach, Karen (Way) Gaita, was a 4-time All-American and the 1991 DII outdoor champion.
* Gaita has earned the last 2 USTFCCCA Indoor Women's Assistant Coach of the Year awards (2014, 2015).
* Shavanna Ross was a 2-time national qualifier and indoor All-American in 2001.
* Leslie Martin was a 2-time national qualifier and indoor All-American in 2007.
* Lynn Mayer was a 6-time All-American, earning certificates both indoors and outdoors in 2008, 2010 and 2011.
* Janelle Smith was a 4-time national qualifier from 2008-10.

* Mayer (6), Gaita (4), O'Connor (3) and distance runner Jan Blake Hoffman (3) are the most decorated All-America athletes in ESU women's track and field history.

* Berry is one of ESU's 4 national qualifiers in the men's high jump.
* Mike Newhard was a 3-time qualifier and earned All-America status indoors in 2002 and 2003.
* Brad Fees was also an indoor qualifier in 2003.
* Seth Bailey was a 2-time qualifier and placed 3rd indoors in 2014.