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Williams Punches NCAA Ticket - GoStanford.com - Stanford University

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Williams Punches NCAA Ticket

Published by David Kiefer/ Stanford SID on January 30th, 2016

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Stanford sophomore Harrison Williams likely earned a spot at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships by scoring a personal-best 5,690 points to win the heptathlon at the Penn State National invitational on Saturday. 

There is no automatic qualifying for the NCAA Indoors, rather the top 16 marks at the end of the season earn passage. However, it appears Williams, Olivia Baker and Claudia Saunders secured spots Sunday. Baker clocked 2:04.10 to win the 800 meters, with Saunders third (2:04.43), and Malika Waschmann fifth with a huge personal best of 2:05.47 which places her squarely on the NCAA bubble. 

They join the men’s and women’s distance medley relay teams and men’s triple jumper Darian Brooks as Stanford representatives who appear to have done enough thus far to get them to Birmingham, Alabama, for nationals March 11-12.

Typically, a score of 5,600 will be more than enough to qualify for NCAA's. That wasn't a problem for Williams, Stanford's decathlon record holder. He was second after the first day of the seven-event competition, but produced a second in the 60 hurdles and victories in the pole vault and 1,000 to conclude Day Two. Though Williams failed to earn a personal best in any event, he was close in all but one -- the pole vault. He cleared a best of 17-3 two weeks ago, but managed only 15-11 on Saturday, creating a single source of disappointment.



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