Three America East student-athletes will compete in the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Committee announced Tuesday.
The championships will be held March 11 and 12 in Birmingham, Alabama.
The complete list of participants is available here.
A pair of women's student-athletes will make the trip down south including New Hampshire sophomore Elinor Purrier, who has the top qualifying time in mile at 4:29.71.
Stony Brook junior Christina Melian qualified in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 15:48.77. She was the women's 3,000-meter champion at the America East meet in February.
New Hampshire junior Drew Piazza is the lone representative on the men's side for the conference. He will compete in the 800, an event he won at the America East Championships, and is seeded 10th.
ESPN3 will stream the meet live on March 11 starting at 6:25 p.m. Eastern time and March 12 starting at 4:55 p.m. Eastern time. A re-air of the championship will take place on Sunday, March 13 starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN2 and also Wednesday, March 23 starting at 10 p.m. Eastern time on ESPNU.