Accepted Entries

INDIANAPOLIS – Slippery Rock University will send three men's track & field athletes to the NCAA Division II National Championships May 21-23 at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas after the NCAA announced the selections for the national meet Tuesday afternoon. The Rock will be represented by Logan Anderson in the decathlon, Zach Gose in the hammer and Seaton Wozniak in the shot put.
 
SRU SCHEDULE
- Thursday, May 21 – Logan Anderson (decathlon begins 11:30 a.m. ET)
- Thursday, May 21 – Zach Gose (hammer throw, 1:30 p.m. ET)
- Friday, May 22 – Logan Anderson (decathlon begins 10:30 a.m. ET)
- Saturday, May 23 – Seaton Wozniak (shot put, 4:45 p.m. ET)
 
The Rock had three men see their name announced Tuesday as official qualifiers for the National Championships when the NCAA Track & Field Committee announced the full field of qualifiers. In order to be accepted into the national meet, student-athletes had to reach at least the NCAA provisional standard in their respective events and rank high enough on the declared entry list to be accepted. In Division II, that means in the top 22 places for most individual events and the top 16 places in the decathlon.
 
Anderson, a sophomore from Edinboro, Pennsylvania, will be making his second straight appearance at the outdoor national meet after placing 13th in the decathlon as a true freshman last spring. He also qualified for indoor nationals earlier this year and earned first team All-America honors with a seventh place finish in the heptathlon. Anderson enters the meet as the highest seeded SRU athlete with his career-best decathlon score of 7,125 points ranking fifth nationally. He set that mark two weeks ago while winning the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title.
 
Wozniak, a senior from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, is making his second straight trip to the outdoor national meet and his fourth overall trip to a National Championship. He earned second team All-American honors with a 10th place finish in the shot put at nationals last spring and followed that up with another second team All-America honor with a 14th place finish at the indoor national meet earlier this year. He will enter the competition as the 11th seed with a season-best throw of 17.88 meters, well shy of his indoor SRU record of 18.40 meters he set earlier this year. Wozniak was dually focused on the shot put and discus this spring, winning his first PSAC title in the discus and narrowly missing nationals in both events. His discus best of 52.27 meters was No. 29 in Division II this year.
 
Gose, a senior from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is headed to the national meet for the first time in his career. He will compete in the hammer throw as the No. 21 seed with his SRU record throw of 62.16 meters. Gose broke the SRU record in the hammer four times this spring, with the most recent coming just last week at the Harrison Dillard Twilight meet at Baldwin Wallace, where he improved his record from 62.12 meters to 62.16 meters.
 
Slippery Rock had a total of 17 NCAA provisional marks between the men's team and women's team this spring and had multiple athletes near the cutoff in their respective events. The closest to getting in were Alice Bogia (No. 26 in the triple jump), Logan Turton (No. 27 in the high jump) and Connor Brown (No. 27 in the shot put), who all had top 27 marks. A full list of The Rock's NCAA marks and final rankings from the year  can be found below.
 
A detailed preview for the National Championships May 21-23 will be posted to RockAthletics.com next week.
 
SRU NCAA PROVISIONAL MARKS THIS SPRING
 
MEN'S DECATHLON
5. Logan Anderson – 7,125 points (Accepted)
45. Jacob Stucchio – 6,401 points
 
MEN'S SHOT PUT
11. Seaton Wozniak – 17.88m (Accepted)
27. Connor Brown – 17.23m
 
MEN'S HAMMER THROW
21. Zach Gose – 62.16m (Accepted)
 
WOMEN'S TRIPLE JUMP
26. Alice Bogia – 12.14m
36. Baylee Blauser – 12.00m
 
MEN'S HIGH JUMP
27. Logan Turton – 2.07m
 
MEN'S DISCUS THROW
29. Seaton Wozniak – 52.27m
 
WOMEN'S JAVELIN THROW
31. Isabella Bartoletti – 44.33m
 
MEN'S LONG JUMP
36. Jason Alderson – 7.39m
 
WOMEN'S HIGH JUMP
40. Tayla Kurzawa – 1.68m
 
WOMEN'S SHOT PUT
42. Savannah Schneck – 14.02m
43. Olivia Heckman – 13.97m
 
MEN'S JAVELIN THROW
48. Joey Reed – 61.38m
 
WOMEN'S HEPTATHLON
50. Autumn Wyatt – 4,612 points
 
MEN'S POLE VAULT
55. Logan Gossard – 4.89m
 




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