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NCAA Championships Preview: 60-meter hurdles
3/8/2016 4:19:00 PM | Track and Field
Syracuse has six student-athletes set to compete at this week's NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, which begin on Friday in Birmingham, Alabama. Cuse.com will take an event-by-event look at each of the five events Syracuse will be competing in as we head towards the championships. Past previews: men's mile.
Forty minutes after Adam Palamar and Joel Hubbard take the track to open the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the men's mile, Freddie Crittenden III will represent 'Cuse in the 60-meter hurdles for the second event of the day.
Crittenden, who enters the meet tied for the eighth-fastest time nationally, is set to compete in his first indoor championship after earning Second Team All-America honors in the 110-meter hurdles in each of his first two seasons at Syracuse.
The junior is part of a tightly packed field, with just 0.14 seconds separating the top qualifier from the 16th and final seed to qualify. The Utica, Michigan native set his seed time at the ACC Championship, with a personal best 7.70 in the prelims, before going on to handily win the title the following day with a time of 7.74 seconds.
LSU's Jordan Moore and Oregon's Devon Allen are the top-two seeds, each posting times of 7.60 seconds this season and Crittenden is the only ACC competitor in the field.
This season, Crittenden has faced four competitors set to square off in the event and has beaten all of them at least once. He faced fifth-seeded Dondre Echoles from South Carolina at the Armory Invite, where Crittenden took second and Echols finished fifth, and defeated 15th-seeded Michael Dixon of North Carolina A&T in the same race, where Dixon finished third. Eighth-seeded Trey Holloway of Hampton, who edged Crittenden at the line by 0.01 seconds won that event after Crittenden had bested him with the best time in the semifinals.
Chad Zallow, who's seeded sixth, faced Crittenden at the same event as well, taking firth in the final.
The race is scheduled to get underway at 6:10 p.m. Friday, with the meet broadcast on ESPN3.
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Forty minutes after Adam Palamar and Joel Hubbard take the track to open the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the men's mile, Freddie Crittenden III will represent 'Cuse in the 60-meter hurdles for the second event of the day.
Crittenden, who enters the meet tied for the eighth-fastest time nationally, is set to compete in his first indoor championship after earning Second Team All-America honors in the 110-meter hurdles in each of his first two seasons at Syracuse.
The junior is part of a tightly packed field, with just 0.14 seconds separating the top qualifier from the 16th and final seed to qualify. The Utica, Michigan native set his seed time at the ACC Championship, with a personal best 7.70 in the prelims, before going on to handily win the title the following day with a time of 7.74 seconds.
LSU's Jordan Moore and Oregon's Devon Allen are the top-two seeds, each posting times of 7.60 seconds this season and Crittenden is the only ACC competitor in the field.
This season, Crittenden has faced four competitors set to square off in the event and has beaten all of them at least once. He faced fifth-seeded Dondre Echoles from South Carolina at the Armory Invite, where Crittenden took second and Echols finished fifth, and defeated 15th-seeded Michael Dixon of North Carolina A&T in the same race, where Dixon finished third. Eighth-seeded Trey Holloway of Hampton, who edged Crittenden at the line by 0.01 seconds won that event after Crittenden had bested him with the best time in the semifinals.
Chad Zallow, who's seeded sixth, faced Crittenden at the same event as well, taking firth in the final.
The race is scheduled to get underway at 6:10 p.m. Friday, with the meet broadcast on ESPN3.
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Players Mentioned
Benne Anderson | NCAA mile final
Saturday, March 15
Benne Anderson NCAA Mile Semifinals
Saturday, March 15
Sam Lawler | ACC 5k Highlight
Sunday, March 02
Forever Orange | Freddie Crittenden
Thursday, February 13
