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Six Tiger Athletes to Represent Trinity at NCAA Indoor Track and Field Meet
San Antonio - Six Tiger student-athletes will represent Trinity University at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday and Saturday at Greencastle, Ind.
Seniors Todd Wildman, Chass Armstrong, Bryant Wright, Brennen Peters, and junior Zach Brush will compete in the men's championships. Junior Caitlin Masse has qualified for the women's competition.
The event will be held at DePauw University, which, like Trinity, is a member of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Wildman, from Dallas (Jesuit), is the defending NCAA pentathlon champion. He won the 2009 title with a score of 3,859 points, at Terre Haute, Ind., located 45 miles from Greencastle. He has recorded a best-in-the-nation score of 3,876 points. Wildman is ranked No. 2 in the 55-meter hurdles (7.50 seconds). His high jump mark of 6 feet, 8 ¼ inches (2.04 meters) is 13th nationally. Wildman captured the 2009 high jump at 6 feet, 9 ¾ inches (2.08 meters).
Wildman single-handedly brought the Tigers to a No. 6 team finish at the 2009 Indoors, with 20 points. He was selected as the Field Athlete of the Meet by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Four Tigers will compete in the distance medley relay: Armstrong of Boerne, Texas (Boerne); Wright of Tulsa, Okla. (Holland Hall); Peters of Austin, Texas (Austin); and Brush of Edmond, Okla. (Edmond North). Peters replaced Wildman on the relay team, which had a time of 10:02.66., eighth in the nation.
Masse, from Katy, Texas (Cinco Ranch), will run the 5,000 meters. Her time of 17:26.78 is No. 15 nationally.
Trinity's men's and women's track and field teams are led by second-year head coach David Svoboda. Coach Svoboda was named the 2009 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Track and Field Coach of the Year. The Tiger men captured their third consecutive SCAC Championship (outdoor). Trinity's women placed third at the conference meet.
