These Freshmen Have All-American Potential At NCAAs
Mar 11, 2021 Athing Mu, Micah Williams and Talitha Diggs are a few of the fastest freshmen leading the way as the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships approach this weekend
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The NCAA Divison I Indoor Track and Field Championships are here, and they go from Thursday through Saturday at the University of Arkansas.
Interestingly enough, there are a handful of first-year athletes who have the potential to be All-Americans plus a few more who could also win their first NCAA title this weekend.
Texas A&M s Athing Mu and Florida s Talitha Diggs will compete for a 400m title
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Texas A&M and No. 3
Georgia, who remain unchanged from a week ago. No. 4
Southern California jumped up two spots to make its first appearance within the top-5 this year, while
Texas dropped one spot to No. 5.
The Razorbacks earned 3 more top-10 nationally-ranked marks, bringing their season total to 24 after two weeks of competition. Arkansas turned in 8 marks that sit within the top-5 of their respective events, including four national leading marks:
Paris Peoples in the 400 (52.48);
Lauren Gregory in the mile (4:35.69);
Katie Izzo in the 5000 (15:36.22) and the 4×400 also improved upon their No. 1 time (3:30.80).
The second-ranked Aggies remain unchanged and now has 12 top-10 marks following their weekend at the Texas Tech Classic. The biggest showing for the Aggies was from