HONOLULU – The Hawai'i women's track and field team had four student-athletes earn spots in the NCAA First Round set for Thursday and Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.
Lilian Turban earned a bid in the high jump and javelin,
Tara Wyllie secured a spot in the triple jump,
Samaria Vital clinched a spot in the discus and
Robyn Larkan is NCAA bound in the 100m hurdles.
Turban will compete in the javelin and Larkan the 100m hurdles on Thursday, while Wyllie will be in action in the triple jump and Vital the discus on Saturday along with Turban in the high jump.
It's the fifth consecutive year that Hawai'i has send multiple competitors to the NCAA First Round and the second straight year that at least four are bound for the preliminary round of the national meet.
Turban, the Big West runner-up and 2023 high jump All-American, is into the field in her signature event for the fourth time in her career with a season mark of 1.80m. She also qualified in the javelin for the second consecutive year, in with a season-best mark of 48.12m.
Wyllie has qualified for the NCAA First Round triple jump for the third time in her career, taking a mark of 12.93m into the postseason. Vital earned her first career trip to the NCAA First Round in the discus, throwing 51.95m at the Big West Championship to vault up the regional rankings. School-record holder Larkan rounds out the group of Rainbow Wahine bound for nationals, taking her time of 13.44 seconds into the postseason.
