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- The NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships are June 8-11 in Eugene, Ore. and 10 runners with local connections, two of whom went to high school in Northern Virginia, are among them.
- Men’s 3,000 meter steeplechase
Darren Fahy (Georgetown)
Scott Carpenter (Georgetown) - Men’s 5,000 meters
Thomas Curtain (Virginia Tech/Loudoun County High School)
Steven Flynn (George Mason)
Sean McGorty (Stanford/ Chantilly High School) - Men’s 10,000 meters
Jonathan Green (Georgetown) - Women’s 800 meters
Emma Keenan (Georgetown)
Sabrina Southerland (Georgetown)
Sara Schmidt (Georgetown) - Women’s 1,500 meters
Andrea Keklak (Georgetown) - Women’s 5,000 meters
Katrina Coogan (Georgetown)
- Men’s 3,000 meter steeplechase
- Though he didn’t qualify for the NCAA championships, Georgetown’s Ahmed Bile, who went to Annandale High School, ran the fastest 1,500 meter time in the NCAA when he hit 3:37.73 at the Princeton Qualifier.
- Georgetown’s Mike Smith, coach of the women’s track and cross country teams since 2012, was named director of the men’s and women’s track and field and cross country.
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