SAN MARCOS, Texas – Eleven Texas State track and field student-athletes are scheduled to participate in the 2019 NCAA Outdoor West Track and Field Preliminaries hosted by Sacramento State on March 23-25 at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif.
 
The top 48 individuals of each event and top 24 relay teams in the region earned an invitation to California in hopes of finishing in the top 12 in order to punch a ticket to the NCAA Championships held June 5-8 in Austin, Texas. 
 
Making the trip for the Bobcats will be seniors Kyle Denomme, Tramesha Hardy, T'Mond Johnson and Kylah Smith, junior Naomi Ferdinand, sophomores Jaylen Allen, Ronnie Briscoe, Brandon Busby, and Noah Herring, and freshmen Sadi Giles and Live Hilton.
 
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The Qualifiers
Hardy will be the only Bobcat competing in two events at the three-day track meet. Hardy, a five-time Sun Belt Conference champion, will compete in both the women's 100 and 200-meter dash. She is seeded 13th in the 100 with a time of 11:35 and 17th in the 200 with a time of 23.14. Ferdinand, the 2019 Sun Belt Champion in the women's long jump, is seeded No. 38 in the long jump with a 6.14m (20-1.75) mark.
 
Johnson, a three-time Sun Belt Conference Champion in the men's shot put, enters the meet as the No. 8 seed in the shot put behind a 19.70m (64-7.75) hurl in the conference championships and Busby gets the nod to head west after claiming gold in the men's discus (No. 42 seed) with a 54.66m (179-4) throw. Allen rounds out the list of 2019 Sun Belt Champions as the No. 25 seed in the men's 400-meter dash, timing out at 46.50 at the league championships.
 
Briscoe, the 2018 Sun Belt Champion in the men's long jump is seeded 22nd in the event with a 7.60m (24-11.25) mark, and Hilton will compete in the women's long jump as the 29th seed with her 6.20m (20-4.25) mark jumped on March 28. Herring will be the final jumper for Texas State after his 15.23m (49-11.75) leap in the triple jump at the conference championships that placed third. Herring is the No. 31 seed.
 
Denomme will compete as the No. 42 seed in the men's 800-meter run with a time of 1:50.20, while both Smith and Giles make the cut as the 47th seed in the women's 100-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, respectively. Smith gets in with a 13.66 time ran at the conference championships, while Giles' 11.68 time at the Bobcat Classic (April 26) holds tough.
 
Schedule of Events for Bobcat Competitors (Central Time Zone)
May 23
5:30 p.m. – Men's Long Jump First Round (Briscoe)
8:30 p.m. – Women's 100-meter Dash First Round (Giles, Hardy)
8:45 p.m. – Women's Long Jump First Round (Ferdinand, Hilton)
9: 45 p.m. – Men's 400-meter Dash First Round (Allen)
10:35 p.m. – Men's 800-meter Run First Round (Denomme)
 
May 24
6 p.m. – Men's Discus Throw First Round (Busby)
6:30 p.m. – Women's 100-meter hurdles First Round (Smith)
9:30 p.m. – Women's 200-meter Dash First Round (Hardy)
 
May 25
4:45 p.m. – Men's Shot Put First Round (Johnson)
8:30 p.m. – Men's Triple Jump First Round (Herring)
 
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