INFO | National Championships meet central
 
Indianapolis, Ind.----The Wingate University track and field team will send a program-best 19 student-athletes to the NCAA Division II outdoor national championship meet May 22-24 inside the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl on the campus of Colorado State University Pueblo. The 19 Navy Blue and Vegas Gold-clad athletes will compete in 25 total events.

What They Are Saying
Wingate director of cross country and track and field Matt van Lierop
 
"The Bulldogs are headed to NCAAs once again…with the most qualifiers in Wingate history. Both teams are ranked in the top 25…and these men (third) and women (21st) are looking to improve upon those rankings. Their heads are currently in the books, studying for exams (through Thursday), but their legs and hearts are preparing for the Big Show." 

Five Bulldogs qualify to compete in multiple events

Senior Titouan Le Grix has the busiest schedule among Wingate's 13 men, as he will compete in three events: the 3000-meter steeplechase (8:29.02), the 1500 meters (3:34.30) and the 5000 meters (13:28.23). The defending national champion in the steeplechase, Le Grix is the No. 1 seed in the aforementioned three events.
 
Senior Hamza Chahid and juniors Luca Poppe, Antonin Saint Peyre and Mia Cabrera will compete in two events each. Chahid and Poppe have identical schedules, as they will participate in both the men's 1500 and the 5000 meters. Saint Peyre will run the grueling men's 10000 meters and the men's 5000 meters.
 
Cabrera is the standard bearer for the Wingate women, as she will compete in the 1500 meters and the 5000 meters. The Bulldogs have three first-time national championship participants among six women's qualifiers: junior Hoyane Esper and freshmen Hayat Abdeselam and Firdaouss Hriche.
 
Wingate's complete list, in alphabetical order:
 
Hayat Abdeselam (Women's triple jump)
Will Aitken (3000 Steeplechase)
Ricardo Barbosa (3000 Steeplechase)
Sira Bo (Women's 3000 Steeplechase)
Soheil Boufrizi (3000 Steeplechase)
Evie Brooks (Women's 1500)
Mia Cabrera (Women's 1500, 5000)
Joaquin Campos (5000)
Hamza Chahid (1500, 5000)
Alex Durant (10000)
Hoyane Esper (Women's 400 Hurdles)
David Holman (1500)
Firdaouss Hriche (Women's 3000 Steeplechase)
Lars Laros (5000)
Titouan Le Grix (3000 Steeplechase, 1500, 5000)
Scott Nutter (10000)
Luca Poppe (1500, 5000)
Jakob Rettschlag (1500)
Antonin Saint Peyre (10000)
 
Wingate University 
 
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