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The NCAA has released the list participants selected to compete at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships, to be held May 21-23 in Allendale, Mich. Fort Hays State had seven athletes, four women and three men, selected. Women competing will be Estefania Lopez, Madison Wolf, Megan Honas and Danielle Berry. Men competing will be Cory Keehn, Brady Tien and Brenner Wells.

The Tigers have three of the top 11 women’s javelin throwers nationally entering the event. Lopez has the best effort in the nation so far this year at 169-feet, 7-inches, which set a new school record for the new model javelin. Wolf also hit the automatic qualifying mark this year with her best effort at 160-feet, 3-inches to rank fifth nationally entering the championships. Honas has had a breakout year and ranks 11th on the national performing list with her best effort at 148-feet, 5-inches. Twenty athletes were chosen to compete in the women’s javelin.

Danielle Berry tied for 18th nationally on the performance list in the high jump and is one of 20 selected to compete in the event. Her highest effort this season was 5-feet, 7.25-inches.

Cory Keehn will compete in the 10,000-meter run. He had the seventh-best time in the nation at 29:44.68, which set a new school record. Keehn is a two-time MIAA champion in the event.

Tien also set a new school record this year in the pole vault at 17 feet, the first Tiger ever to reach that height. It broke a 34-year old record at FHSU, set by Kim Stewart in 1981. Tien tied for the fourth-best mark nationally entering the championships.

Wells had the 19th-best effort in the nation this year in the javelin at 205-feet, 11-inches. That was just enough as 19 athletes were selected to compete in the event.