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ALLENDALE, Mich. – Taking one of its larger contingents to the NCAA championships, seven University of Mary student-athletes are set to compete at the 2014 NCAA Women's Outdoor National Track & Field Championships that start on Thursday and runs through Saturday, May 22-24.
 
The Marauders will have to produce their best effort of the season to match the team results of the past couple seasons. After placing 25^th in 2011, U-Mary improved to 10^th in 2012 and finished 11^th last year. The Marauders sent five student-athletes to nationals in 2011, 11 in 2012 and six last year.
 
Two veterans lead the way for the Marauders as Janet Johnson and Kathryn Stewart are each making their sixth appearance at an NCAA championship. A junior from Kingston, Jamaica, and a five-time All-American, Stewart will compete in four events. Johnson, a senior from Kingston, Jamaica, competes in two events and has one last opportunity to earn All-American honors.
 
Stewart is competing in both the 100 and 200 meter dash and the 4x100 and the 4x400 meter relay. She posted the country's 19^th best time in the 200 and was 21^st in the 100.
 
Johnson will run in both the 100 meter hurdles and the 4x100 meter relay team. The highest ranked U-Mary entry, Johnson is seeded ninth in the hurdles.
 
A freshman, Cassandra Jones will run in three events for the Marauders. Already an All-American after running on the Marauders third place relay team at the 2014 NCAA indoor championships, the native of North York, Ontario, Canada, competes in the 400 meter run and both the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relays. She was ranked 26^th in the 400.
 
Brienna Lynch, who ran on the Marauders 2013 national indoor champion distance medley relay team, will compete individually for the first time at the outdoor championships. The Bismarck, N.D., native will run the 800 meters, where she ranks 18^th.
 
Three other Marauders round out the school's two relay teams. Two-time All-American Crystal Hovland, a junior from Rugby, N.D., who ran on the 2013 national champion DMR team and the 2014 third place 4x400 indoor relay squad, joins Jones, Stewart and Josie Guptill on the 4x400 meter relay team. A sophomore from Quinn. S.D., Guptill is making her first national championship appearance.
 
A junior from Corona, Calif., Brittany Osborne rounds out the 4x100 meter relay team with Stewart, Jones and Johnson. Like Quinn, this is Osborne's first NCAA national championship.
 
U-Mary's 4x400 relay team ranked ninth nationally at the end of the season and the 4x100 was 14^th.


First to compete for the Marauders is the preliminaries of the 4x100 meter relay team at 4 p.m. Central/5 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, May 22. Also competing on opening day is Jones in the 400 meter preliminaries (4:55 p.m. CST / 5:55 p.m. Eastern) and Stewart in the 100 meter preliminaries (5:25 p.m. CST / 6:25 p.m. EST).
 
U-Mary will be busy on Friday, May 23. Stewart runs in the 200 meter preliminaries at 4:45 p.m. CST/5:45 p.m. Eastern. The next event is the 800 meter run for Lynch at 5:15 p.m. CST/6:15 p.m. Eastern. Johnson competes in the 100 meter hurdle preliminaries at 5:50 p.m. CST/6:50 p.m. Eastern before the day concludes with the 4x400 meter relay at 7:05 p.m. CST/8:05 p.m. Eastern.
 
Any Marauders that qualify for the finals will then compete on Saturday, May 24.
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (all times Central)
 
Thursday, May 22 (preliminaries)
4 p.m.              Women's 4x100 meter relay (Stewart, Jones, Johnson, Osborne)
4:55 p.m.        Women's 400 meter dash (Cassandra Jones)
5:25 p.m.        Women's 100 meter dash (Kathryn Stwart)
 
Friday, May 23 (preliminaries)
4:45 p.m.        Women's 200 meter dash (Stewart)
5:15 p.m.        Women's 800 meter run (Lynch)
5:50 p.m.        Women's 100 meter hurdles (Johnson)
8:05 p.m.        Women's 4x400 meter relay (Stewart, Jones, Hovland, Guptill)
 
Saturday, May 24 (finals)
4:20 p.m.        Women's 4x100 relay
5:05 p.m.        Women's 100 meter hurdles
5:25 p.m.        Women's 400 meters
5:45 p.m.        Women's 100 meters
6:05 p.m.        Women's 800 meter run
6:55 p.m.        Women's 200 meter run
8:05 p.m.        Women's 4x400 meter relay
 
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