ACC Championships Await

Thursday, February 21

Blacksburg, VA

TBA

Syracuse University

ACC Championship

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2/20/2019 12:40:00 PM | Track and Field

The Syracuse track and field teams have a big weekend ahead as they head to the ACC Championships at Virginia Tech.

MEET INFO:

Action gets underway on Thursday at 6 p.m., with the Orange getting their championships started on Friday.
Live Results are available at this link: ACC Championship Results
The meet will take place at Rector Field House at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA
The meet will be televised on ESPNU at 4 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. on Saturday and can be streamed on the WatchESPN app and at this link: ACC Championship Stream
A schedule of events is available here: Meet Schedule (PDF)

SYRACUSE IN THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS:

The Orange men are looking for their second ACC Indoor title after winning in 2016 and the 'Cuse women seek their first ACC championship.
The Syracuse men placed fourth with 42 points at last year's indoor championships at Clemson, while the women finished 11th with 27.5 points.
Junior Aidan Tooker finished with a silver medal performance in the 5000-meters last year with a time of 8:08.03, while fellow junior Matt Moore also claimed silver in the men's 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.74 seconds last season at Clemson.
Senior Kadejhia Sellers finished sixth in the women's 400-meters last year with a time of 53.73 seconds, just 0.57 seconds behind the gold winner, Pitt's Desiree Garland.

MEN'S MEET BREAKDOWN:

Chris Tucker will be the lone Orange representative in the 60-meter dash, an event where each heat winner plus the next-four fastest times advance.
Brandon Williams will compete in the 200, attempting to advance by being one of the eight fastest based on time.
Noah Beveridge, Michael Phillips, Simon Smith, Nathan Henderson and Aidan Tooker will compete in the mille, with Orange representation in each heat and Beveridge and Philips doubling up. The top-two from each of the four heats and next-two fastest times will advance. Tooker, the league's only sub-four minute miler this season enters as the favorite. Philips is the top-true freshman in the event, with a seed time of 4:02.57.
Tooker will then attempt a difficult mile/3000-meter double. He'll be joined by Phillips in attempting that feat. The duo is in the first heat of the event.
Noah Affolder and Iliass Aoiuani represent 'Cuse in the second heat, with the third and fourth-fastest times, respectively. Nahom Solomon of Georgia Tech is the favorite based on time.
Aouani is also one of the top-three seeds in the men's 5k, where he'll be joined by Affolder, Joe Dragon, Kevin James and Dominic Hockenbury.
Matt Moore, the defending silver medalist in the 60-meter hurdles, leads four Syracuse runners into the 60-meter hurdles. However, a bad seed draw has all-four in the same preliminary heat. The winner of each heat, plus the next-five fastest times advance to Saturday, providing hope for 'Cuse to place multiple people in the finals. Florida State's Trey Cunningham (7.53) has the best time to date and is in heat one. Heat two features Moore, Chevis Armstead, Richard Floyd and Andrew Aguilera.

WOMEN'S MEET BREAKDOWN:

In the women's 60-meter dash, Eunice Boateng and Dasia Pressley will be the Orange representatives. The two are running in heats one and three of the event. The winner of each heat, plus next-four fastest times will advance.
Kadejhia Sellers headlines the 200, with the ninth-fastest time in the conference this year. She'll be joined by Alexis Crosby, Pressley and Boateng in the event.
Sellers. In both the 200 and 400, the top-eight will advance based on time.
While she's the Orange's top performer in the 200, she's perhaps a league favorite in the 400. Entering with the best seed time to date, Sellers will run in the second heat of the prelims. Miami's Brittny Ellis has a time 0.01 seconds behind Sellers, who'll run in heat five. Crosby and Cheyenne Trigg have also qualified in the 400 for the Orange.
Melissa Lodge and Abigail Spiers will race in the women's mile. The event features three heats, with the top-two from the heats and the next-four fastest times advancing to Saturday.
The 3000-meter run is loaded with Orange, headlined by Paige Stoner, who is in the seeded heat, along with Laura Dickinson and Rachel Bonner. The one-race, two heat final, has Stoner as the fifth-fastest performer in the league to date (9:06.03). Louisville's Dorcas Wasike (8:48.92) has the top seed. In addition to Stoner, Bonner and Dickinson, Madeleine Davison and Ellie Lawler will compete in the first heat.
The 5k also features lots of Orange. Stoner is one-of-three competitors to go sub-16 minutes in the event this season, along with Notre Dame's Jacqueline Gaughan and Wasike, who is again the top-seed. Stoner will compete with Dickinson and Davison in the seeded race. Emma Wilson and Mary Malone will race in the first heat.
Aviana Goode posted the fifth-best high jump mark to date in the league this season at 1.71 meters last week. Kenya Livingston of Clemson has the best jump at 1.79 meters.
Goode will also attempt the pentathlon, the first multi-event performer since the Orange joined the league in 2013.

ORANGE MILESTONES:

Sophomore Aidan Tooker joined just four other Syracuse runners to ever post a sub-four minute mile, placing first at the John Thomas Invitational with a time of 3:59.39.
All-American sophomore Matt More posted the nation's 25th-fastest time of the year at the Ramapo Season Opener in January, finishing first in the 60-meters hurdles with a time of 7.83 seconds.
Illiass Aouani led all collegiate competitors in the 5K at the David Valentine Invitational at Boston University, finishing with a time of 13:51.87, a personal best and good for the 24^th-fastest time nationally this season.