BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins' men's and women's track and field teams will combine to send nine student-athletes to this week's Division III NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, as released by the association.
 
Six women — Sara Bartlett, Annie Huang, Victoria Kadiri, Lauren Phillips, Mackenzie Setton and Sara Stephenson — and three men — Emmanuel Leblond, Gavin McElhennon and Connor Oiler — will travel to Myrtle Beach to compete across 12 events beginning Thursday, May 23 and running through Saturday, May 25.
 
Festivities are set to begin Thursday with Kadiri in the long jump, where the eight-time National Champion will look to win her third consecutive outdoor title in the event. The senior's season-best mark of 5.95 meters is the fifth best in Division III, but with multiple jumps of over six meters to Kadiri's name in her career, the Lynn, MA native looks poised to compete for another podium.
 
The Blue Jays will be busy on the track Thursday evening, with Setton (1500), Phillips (200) and Stephenson (Steeplechase) all competing in their respective preliminary races beginning at approximately 5:35 p.m. The top eight finishers in the 200 prelims will advance to Saturday's final while the top 12 from both the Steeplechase and 1500 with move on to their finals on Friday and Saturday respectively.
 
Friday's events kick off with the Championships' final prelims in which Phillips (400) and Huang (800) will look to qualify for their respective finals before Kadiri (Triple Jump), Bartlett (Triple Jump) and Stephenson (5000) round Hopkins' participants on Saturday.
 
The men open their NCAA Championship slate in the Steeplechase where Leblond and Oiler will look to finish in the top 12 to advance to Friday's final before McElhennon runs in his lone event of the weekend — the 10,000 — at approximately 9:15 p.m Thursday.