The Emporia State track and field team is sending 12 athletes to the NCAA Division II National Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 21-23 in San Angelo, Texas.
The Hornets have a top-eight competitor nationally in six of the 11 events they will be competing in at the national meet.
Josh Honeycutt has the top triple jump in the nation at 53 feet, 9.25 inches and is sixth in the long jump. Vincent Howze is ranked third in the 400-meter hurdles.
Emporia State’s school-record holding 400-meter relay team of Derwin Hall, Josh Schuler, Kenton Lonberger and Sam Williams enter the meet with the sixth-best time nationally this season.
Other ESU men who qualified include Skyler Delmott in the 3,000-meter steeple chase and Dustin Andrews in the high jump.
For the ESU women, Jaclyn Sill and Brooke Kent are the top qualifiers. Sill is eighth nationally in the 400 meters and Kent is ranked eighth in the long jump.
Connie Philips enters the meet as the ninth-best in the javelin and freshman Katie Mona will run the 1,500 meters.
Emporia State’s 12 athletes in San Angelo will represent nearly 20 percent of the MIAA’s 63 athletes competing at the national meet and is second only to Central Missouri’s 13 competitors among MIAA schools.