Purrier Moves On for Women's Track at NCAAs

Friday, March 11

Birmingham, Ala.

TBA

University of New Hampshire

NCAA Championships Day One

3/11/2016 8:48:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sophomore Elinor Purrier (Montgomery, Vt.) qualified for the mile finals and junior Drew Piazza (Danvers, Mass.) just missed the cut after day one of the 2016 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the CrossPlex, Friday afternoon.

Purrier qualified for the finals, set for 5:10 Eastern Time tomorrow. ESPN3 will web-stream the meet live starting at 4:55 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow afternoon.

-Preliminary Times-
Women's Mile
1. Elinor Purrier: 4:36.15 (1^st in heat two)

Men's 800-meter
8. Drew Piazza: 1:47.97 (6^th in heat one)

Purrier was seeded first for the preliminaries with a 4:29.71 time. Piazza held the 10^th spot on a 1:47.28 mark.

Proven Purrier
After being seeded first overall, Purrier moves onto her first NCAA indoor finals in any event after just missing the mark her freshman season with a 15^th place finish in the mile run. During the 2015 outdoor season, the sophomore competed at the NCAA Outdoor championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and finished seventh overall (9:53.69) for All-American status.

Piazza Pronto
In his first ever championship appearance, Piazza missed the cut by 0.06 seconds. The school record holder in the 800 has improved his 800-meter time by 0.32 seconds from last season for the top-10 seed going into the NCAAs.

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