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COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Nine members of the women's track & field team are at Texas A&M University for the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships. The 14th-ranked women's team will compete in the championships Friday and Saturday.
Head coach Lonnie Greene's Boilermakers have seven entries at the NCAA Championships, which is two more than any other team in the Big Ten. Devynne Charlton leads the way with two individual entries as she will compete in the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles. She won the Big Ten title in both events two weeks ago and was named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Championships. Charlton is competing the 60m hurdles at NCAAs for the third time, including a third-place finish last year. She has the No. 2 time in the nation this season. Her appearance in the 60m dash is the first of her career.
Brionna Thomas and Symone Black will both compete in the 400-meter dash and the 4x400m relay. Thomas was the Big Ten champion in the event and is seeded 10th for the NCAA Championships. She competed at the NCAA Championships in the meet last year and finished 11th. Black was the bronze medalist at Big Tens and is the 16th seed. Thomas and Black are two of the six women Purdue brought for the 4x400m relay. The two paired with Chloe Abbott and Jahneya Mitchell at Big Tens to break the conference record and win gold. Carmiesha Cox and Myia Dorsey are also part of the relay pool. The relay team is seeded seventh.
Savannah Carson will compete in the long jump for the second year in a row. She won the Big Ten Championship two weeks ago with the No. 8 jump in the country. Last year, she finished 16th at the national championships. Janae' Moffitt will compete in her first indoor high jump NCAA Championships. The two-time Big Ten champion in the event is seeded 12th.
The Boilermakers open the meet at 7 p.m. ET with Charlton in the 60m dash prelims and Moffitt in the high jump. The full schedule for Purdue entries is below.
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
7 p.m. - 60m Dash Prelims (Charlton)
7 - High Jump Finals (Moffitt)
7:20 - 400m Dash Prelims (Thomas, Black)
7:50 - 60m Hurdles Prelims (Charlton)
8:10 - Long Jump Finals (Carson)
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
5:20 p.m. - 60m Dash Finals* (Charlton)
5:40 - 400m Dash Finals* (Thomas, Black)
6 - 60m Hurdles Finals* (Charlton)
7:30 - 4x400m Relay Finals (Black, Mitchell, Abbott, Thomas, Cox, Dorsey)
*Must qualify through Prelims
All times Eastern