INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- In a list released last week, four Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference track and field athletes were selected to compete at the 2022 NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships on May 26-28 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
Texas Lutheran University will be represented by two athletes, while Colorado College and Trinity University will each be sending one student-athlete to the championships to represent the SCAC.
For each men’s individual event contested, including the decathlon, the top 20 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition. For each women’s individual event contested, including the heptathlon, the top 22 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition.
On the men’s side, a pair of Texas Lutheran Bulldogs in Zachary Herman and Scottie Reyes both punched their ticket to the National Championship meet.
Reyes makes his second straight NCAA Championship, qualifying in the shot put and discus. Reyes ranks ninth nationally in the discus with a season-high mark of 51.76, a new school record, and 16th in the country in the shot put with a season-mark of 16.07-meters. Herman, a senior from Austin, Texas, makes his first NCAA Championship appearance - qualifying in the shot put by ranking 20th nationally with a season-high mark of 15.90m.
Herman and Reyes were key members of the Texas Lutheran men's throws team that swept the throws events at the 2022 SCAC Championships.
Trinity senior long jumper Sean Majors will make his fourth career appearance in the national championships.
The two-time All-American in long jump spent nearly the entire outdoor season within the qualifying field as he opened the 2022 campaign with a 7.20-meter leap in the Trinity Invitational in early March, and steadily improved throughout the season while breaking his own school-record in the event twice before landing at 7.52 meters at the Our Lady of the Lake Saints Last Chance meet last week.
Majors' standing school-record from the OLLU competition ranks sixth overall in NCAA III this season, while all of his top five results this season would rank within the top 18 nationally.
On the women’s side, Colorado College junior Kendall Accetta qualified for the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a school-record time of 10:57.54 in winning the title at the SCAC Championships last month. She has the 17th-fastest time in the country entering the national meet.
The Portland, Ore., native is the first CC female to qualify for the Division III Outdoor Championship since Camille Weaver competed in the heptathlon in 2019 and the first Tiger, male or female, to qualify in the steeplechase.
The complete list of qualifiers is available HERE
