Minors and Dill to race at NCAA Championships
Bermudians Dage Minors and Shaquille Dill have been selected to compete at this month’s Division II NCAA Championships at.
Minors, a junior at Franklin Pierce University, has named in a team alongside his distance medley relay team-mates, graduate student Andre Wooten and senior Alyssa Lambert.
Minors will also compete in the 800 metres during the March 11 and 12 event at Pittsburg State University, where he will go up against Dill.
The Saint Augustine University student qualified for the 800 with a time of 1:49.91, which ranks him tenth out of the 16 competitors in the event. He will also race in the 400 where he is ranked seventh after a qualifying time of 47.62.
Dill’s 4x400 rely team, meanwhile, will be ranked first at the championships after they qualified in 3:11.74.
Minors qualified for the 800 through his performance on Sunday at the Boston University Last Chance Meet, where he turned in a time of 1min 49.76sec, the fastest by a Northeast-10 Conference student-athlete this year which ranks seventh in the nation.
The top 16 competitors in each individual event are selected to the NCAA Championships.
Minors will compete with the medley relay team on March 11, shortly after his 800 race. The team, which also consisted of junior Jon Holmes, sophomore Joshua Ercolini and junior BJ Smith, was the final team to qualify for the NCAAs as they are ranked twelfth in the country and only twelve teams are selected to relay events.
The distance medley team also qualified last weekend when they clocked a time of 9:54.79 at the NEICAAA Championships.
Also hoping to qualifying for the NCAA Championships is sprinter Kyle Webb of Purdue University.
Webb competed in the BIG 10 Championships last weekend, helping his 4x400 relay team break the school record with a time of 3:06.59, while also winning his 200 heat in a time of 21.19 which qualified him for the final where he placed eighth overall.