By Nate Allen
Special to the News-Times
FAYETTEVILLE - Coach Lance Harter's nationally No. 1 reigning SEC Indoor Women's Track and Field champion Arkansas Razorbacks have been informed 15 of their athletes meet qualifying standards for the NCAA Women's Indoor Championships that Arkansas hosts March 13-14 at the Randal Tyson Indoor Track.
Arkansas concurrently hosts the NCAA Men's Indoor Championships March 13-14 with 10 of Arkansas Coach Chris Bucknam's nationally third-ranked men officially qualified, the UA was informed.
Leading Harter's women are nationally No. 1 ranked SEC champion 3,000-meter runner Dominique Scott, 8:52.57; nationally No. 2 SEC champion pole vaulter Sandi Morris, 15-3 1-2; nationally No. 2 SEC champion 800-meter runner Chrishuna Williams, 2:02.95; the nationally No. 3 SEC champion 4 x 400 relay, 3:30.50 of Williams, Taylor Ellis-Watson, qualified third in the open 400, 51.72; Sparkle McKnight, qualified 11th, 52.67; and Daina Harper, the sixth-ranked SEC champion distance medley relay, 11:02.80, likely to run Scott on the anchor mile; nationally No. 3 triple jumper Tamara Myers, 43-11 3-4, qualified 14th in the long jump; 20-9 1-4; 5,000-meter runner Diane Robison, nationally No. 8, 15:50.88; pole vaulters Desiree Freier, qualified eighth, 14-2 1-2; and Cabot's Ariel Voskamp, 14-0 1-2 and pentathletes, Alex Gochenour, nationally No. 6, 4,259 points; Leigha Brown, 13th, 4,155 points; and Taliyah Brooks, 4,155 points.
Top-ranked defending NCAA champions Omar McLeod and Jarrion Lawson, two-time national champion Andrew Irwin of Mount Ida and double SEC Indoor champion Kemoy Campbell lead Bucknam's Razorbacks men. McLeod clocked the second-fastest 60-meter hurdles time, 7.49, in collegiate history while winning at the SEC meet.
Lawson, though struggling with a sore knee for a 24-11 fourth at the SEC Indoor, nationally leads the long jump at 26-4 1-4; recent SEC pole vault champion Irwin ranks No. 2 nationally, 18-10 1-4.
SEC 3,000 and 5,000-meter champion Campbell ranks third in the 3,000, 7:48.13, and 12th in the 5,000, 13:44.96 while SEC Cross Country champion Stanley Kebenei ranks seventh, 7:49.74, in the 3,000.
Marqueze Washington, ranks 14th in the 400-meter dash, 46.46, and is on the Razorbacks' eighth-ranked 4 x 400 relay, 3:06.98 while the Razorbacks' distance medley relay, 9:28.37, ranks third.
Clive Pullen, 52-5 1-2, qualified 14th in the triple jump.