NCAA Championships selections/information
USATF Indoor Track & Field Championships information 

RINDGE, N.H. (February 28, 2017) – Senior Dage Minors (Hamilton Parish, Bermuda) has been selected to represent the Franklin Pierce University men's track & field program at the NCAA Championships, as announced Tuesday evening by the NCAA. In addition, it was recently announced senior Holly Lindoe (Holbrook, N.Y.) will represent the Ravens' women's team at the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships.

The NCAA Championships will be hosted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the City of Birmingham on March 9-11 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala.

Minors will compete in the 800 meters, which will feature preliminary heats on March 9 at 6:50 p.m. (all times EST), followed by the final on March 11 at 5:10 p.m. The top 16 competitors in each individual event are selected to the NCAA Championships.

Minors punched his ticket to the NCAAs relatively early in the season, as he posted a time of 1:48.70 on Jan. 28, bettering the NCAA automatic qualifying mark, at the John Thomas Terrier Invitational, hosted by Boston University. The time is the fastest in the country so far this winter, and ranks fifth all time in Division II history. In all, Minors would go lower than the automatic qualifying standard three times in the 800 this season.

With the fastest time in the country, Minors is a legitimate threat to win the program's first-ever national title. The competition will be stiff however, with the nation's top nine seed times separated by just two seconds. A pair of runners from Fort Hayes State both posted times within two-tenths of a second of Minors and met the NCAA automatic qualifying mark as well: junior Decano Cronin (1:48.72) and sophomore Brett Meyer (1:48.89). In all, the field of 15 for the 800 meters is separated by just 3.27 seconds.

As for Lindoe, she heads for the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M., to participate in the USATF Indoor Track & Field Championships, which are scheduled for March 3-5. She will compete in the two-mile racewalk, an event in which the NCAA does not offer a national championship. Lindoe is scheduled to compete at 3:05 p.m. on March 5.

For more information on Franklin Pierce Athletics, please visit the official website of Franklin Pierce Athletics (http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu). Also be sure to follow the Ravens through the Department of Athletics' official Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens), its YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/franklinpiercesports) and its Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/FPUathletics). Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce track and field apparel can do so at the Department of Athletics' brand new online store (http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store).