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ESU Schedule
Friday, 2:30 p.m. - Men's Weight Throw (Travis Toth)
Saturday, 2:15 p.m. - Women's High Jump (Christina O'Connor)
Saturday, 4:55 p.m. - Men's High Jump (Seth Bailey, William Berry)

ESU Results
Travis Toth - 11th (60-5 3/4)

EAST STROUDSBURG – East Stroudsburg University will send four student-athletes – Christina O'Connor, William Berry and Seth Bailey in the high jump, and Travis Toth in the weight throw – to the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, it was announced Tuesday.

The national championships will be held March 14-15 (Saturday-Sunday) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

O'Connor, Bailey and Toth are all returning national qualifiers for the Warriors, while Berry will be making his first-ever trip to the NCAA's.

O'Connor, a junior, was an All-American last March with a sixth-place finish. She is tied for 13th on the entry list with a mark of 5-8 at the Lafayette-Rider Winter Games at the Armory in New York City on February 14, and is coming off her second straight PSAC indoor title on Sunday at Bucknell.

Berry and Bailey, both sophomores, both set school records this season, with Bailey clearing 6-11 at Lafayette-Rider – followed by Berry hitting 6-11 3/4 at Kutztown on February 22.

Bailey was the PSAC champion last weekend at 6-9 3/4 and competed at the NCAA outdoor championships as a freshman last May. He is tied for 12th on the national list.

Berry is tied for 9th on the entry list. He was the PSAC runner-up at 6-8 3/4 on Sunday.

Toth, who competed in the NCAA's in the hammer throw as a sophomore last spring, is ranked 8th in the weight throw with a mark of 63-7 3/4, which he threw at the Millrose Games in New York City on February 15.

He won his first career PSAC championship on Saturday with a mark of 60-10.

ESU had six other provisional qualifiers in junior Danielle Smith (60m, 200m), senior Kim Wernerspach (3000m), senior Elizabeth Madden (weight throw) and senior Theresa Horn (pentathlon) for the women, and junior Damien Boham (400m) and junior Mike Smith (weight throw) for the men. The men's 4x400m relay was also a provisional qualifier.

Boham was the first athlete not selected for the 400m (48.99), and Smith was three-hundredths off qualifying in the 60m (7.68).


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.
* 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-All-American, earning certificates both indoors and outdoors in 2008, 2010 and 2011.
* Janelle Smith was a 4-time national qualifier from 2008-10.

* Bailey and Berry are 2 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.
* Bailey was an outdoor qualifier as a freshman in 2013.

* Toth is ESU's 3rd national qualifier in the men's weight throw.
* Current assistant coach Paul Wagner was a 2-time national qualifier in 2009 and 2010, and an All-American outdoors in the hammer both seasons.
* Russ McGeehan was a national qualifier in 1997.
* Toth competed outdoors in the hammer last year.