Four Set for NCAA Championships

SYRACUSE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Meet Details	Friday/Saturday \| College Station, Texas \| 5:35 p.m.
Meet Coverage	Live Coverage: LIVE RESULTS WatchESPN: Day 1 \| Day 2 Twitter:@cusexctf Instagram: @suxctf Facebook: /Cuse
Links	Start Lists \| Men's Qualifying List \| Women's Qualifying List

60-Meter Hurdles
- Even with the graduation of two-time NCAA runner-up Freddie Crittenden III, Dave Hegland and Co. have the Orange continuing to dominate the 60-meter hurdles at the national level.
- Both Angelo Goss and Matt Moore qualified for the event this weekend, with both ranked in the top-11 nationally.
- Goss set his seed time of 7.69 seconds in the second meet of the season and enters the meet ranked sixth.
- Moore is peaking at the right time, running to a time of 7.74 seconds.
- Florida's Grant Holloway, who won the 2017 title, enters as the favorite, with a seed time of 7.42 seconds.
- 'Cuse has had tremendous success in this event over the last decade. Highlighted by 2018 U.S. Indoor Champion Jarret Eaton, who won the 2012 NCAA Championship, Syracuse has cemented itself as one of the top hurdling destinations in the nation.

Men's 5000-Meters
- The first race of Justyn Knight's double, Knight enters as the No. 2 seed in the 5000-meters.
- Having twice raced in the 3000-meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships, this is Knight's first time racing in the 5k at the indoor level.
- He set his seed time of 13:39.59 at the Iowa State Classic on Feb. 9.
- Mike Tate of Southern Utah has the best time nationally, with a mark of 13:37.33. The next-six best times behind Knight were all set by those Knight beat at the Iowa State Classic. Dillon Maggard of Utah State (13:40.59), Alabama's Vincent Kiprop (13:40.59), BYU's Rory Linkletter (13:41.01), Campbell's Lawrence Kipkoech (13:41.17), BYU's Daniel Carney (13:41.32) and Jacob Thomson of Kentucky (13:31.33) were the next-fastest. However, Maggard is not set to compete in the 5k this weekend.
- Knight, is seeking to become the fifth two-time individual National Champion in Syracuse Athletics history. John Granger (Boxing, 139 lbs., 1954-55), Leo Minotti (Gymnastics, rope climb, 1950-51), Jim Nance (wrestling, heavyweight, 1963, 1965) and Gene Mills (wrestling, 118 lbs., 1979, 1981) are the only athletes with multiple individual national championships at Syracuse.

Women's 5000-Meters
- Paige Stoner will represent the Orange women in the women's 5k.
- She enters the event with the ninth-best time in America, when she shattered the Syracuse school record in the event at the Iowa State Classic (15:44.04). Mizzou's Karissa Schweizer has the nation's top time at 15:17.31.
- Stoner is coming off back-to-back All-America seasons, beginning with the 3000-meter steeplechase in 2017 and the 2017 cross country season, where she recorded the best finish by a Syracuse woman ever at the NCAA Championship.
- Stoner is the second-fastest qualifier from the ACC, as NC State's Elly Henes ranks third nationally (15:36.67).
- Only Scheweizer, Henes, New Mexico's Ednah Kurgat (15:19.03) and Kelati Weini (15:37.03), Georgia's Jessica Drop (15:43.28), Boise State's Clare O'Brein (15:42.60) and Colorado's Erin Clark (15:37.64) have better seed times than Stoner.

Men's 3000-Meters
- The second race of Knight's double.
- Knight has the nation's top time by 2.5 seconds, which he set at the NYRR Millrose Games. Northern Arizona's Andy Trouard (7:48.21), Stanford's Grant Fisher (7:48.56), Washington's Colby Gilbert (7:49.42), Arkansas' Cameron Griffith (7:49.78) and Illinois' Jonathan Davis (7:49.92), are the only six to go sub-7:50 this year.
- Knight has raced twice prior in this event, finishing second to Edward Cheserek last season.

Double Trouble
- Knight is seeking to become the 27th man in NCAA history to earn 20 points or more at a single NCAA Championship.
- The list of people to successfully pull off an NCAA Championship double is a who's-who of the sport's biggest names. Carl Lewis (55 meters/long jump) did it in 1981, Justin Gatlin (60/200), Bernard Lagat (mile, 3000), Edward Cheserek (3000, 5000) and Jim Ryun (mile, 3000) to name a few.
- If Knight successfully completes the feat, he'd join Cheserek (2014, 2016, 2017), Galen Rupp (2009), Alistair Cragg (2003, 2004), David Kimani (2000, 2001), Eric Jenkins (2015) and Lawi Lalang (2012) as the seventh man ever to win the 3000 and 5000 in a single NCAA Championship.

World Leaders
- Led by Justyn Knight's top-time in the 5k, Three members of the Orange have their names
all over the IAAF World List.
- At the Iowa State Classic, Knight ran a 13:39.59 in the 5k, which still stands as the world's fourth best time. His mile time of 3:55.82 from the John Thomas Invitational ranks 11th in the world, and his 3000-meter time of 7:45.34 at the Millrose Games is 28th in the world. Those races came in the span of three weeks.
- Paige Stoner has the world's 10th-fastest 5k time of the year from the Iowa State Classic, her mark of 15:44.04 is 18th in the IAAF standings.
- Angelo Goss ranks 38th in the 60-meter hurdles (7.69 seconds). He's one of three athletes with Syracuse ties in the top-38 of the event. U.S. Champion and World Silver Medalist Jarret Eaton ranks second (7.43 seconds) and 2017 ACC Champion and NCAA Indoor runner up Freddie Crittenden III ranks 25th (7.65 seconds).

BOWERMAN HOPEFUL
- Justyn Knight became the first Syracuse student-athlete to earn a spot on the Bowerman Award Watch List this winter when he was tabbed to the preseason watch list. He also made the cut when four new names were added and only six were held over from the midseason update.
- Knight won his 14th and 15th conference titles (10 individual, five team) at the 2018 ACC Indoor Championships, winning both the 3000 and 5000 meters.
- He also finished ninth in the world in the 5k at the IAAF World Championships in London this past summer and had a stellar cross country season where he won the program's first NCAA Individual Cross Country Championship.

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Players Mentioned

Freddie Crittenden

Jarret Eaton

Angelo Goss

Justyn Knight

Matt Moore

Paige Stoner

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