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Murphy Selected to NCAA Indoor Track Championships
2/28/2017 8:32 PM | Track & Field
SALT LAKE CITY - Junior Grayson Murphy will represent the Utah women's track and field team at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships. Murphy will compete in the 5000-meter run on Friday, March 10, in College Station, Texas.
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To qualify for the indoor track and field national championships, an athlete must rank within the top 16 in the nation in his or her respective event. After Murphy's school-record breaking performance at the MPSF Championships, her 5,000 time of 15:53.24 ranks 11th in the nation heading into the NCAA Indoor Championships.
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Murphy will be Utah's first athlete to appear in the NCAA Indoor Championships since Amanda Mergaert earned All-America honors in the mile with a fifth-place finish in 2013.
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In her first indoor track season at Utah, Murphy broke a 35-year old school record in the 5,000 in her first-ever collegiate 5,000 at the Husky Classic. Two weeks later, Murphy improved her time by 23 seconds and became the first female athlete at Utah to break the 16-minute mark in indoor or outdoor.
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To qualify for the indoor track and field national championships, an athlete must rank within the top 16 in the nation in his or her respective event. After Murphy's school-record breaking performance at the MPSF Championships, her 5,000 time of 15:53.24 ranks 11th in the nation heading into the NCAA Indoor Championships.
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Murphy will be Utah's first athlete to appear in the NCAA Indoor Championships since Amanda Mergaert earned All-America honors in the mile with a fifth-place finish in 2013.
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In her first indoor track season at Utah, Murphy broke a 35-year old school record in the 5,000 in her first-ever collegiate 5,000 at the Husky Classic. Two weeks later, Murphy improved her time by 23 seconds and became the first female athlete at Utah to break the 16-minute mark in indoor or outdoor.
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