22 Georgia Track and Field athletes will head to Oregon looking to come home as a champion

This past weekend in Jacksonville, Florida was the NCAA East Preliminaries where 100s of college athletes competed for a chance to keep competing in Eugene, Oregon next week.  The University of Oregon campus will host the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships June 11th through the 14, and almost two dozen from the University of Georgia will be competing.

On Friday, we told you about the first seven to qualify for the NCAAs.  Well, that afternoon saw another seven qualify which included East Prelim winners in the men's hammer throw (freshman Alex Poursanidis), women's 800 meters (senior Megan Malasarte), and women's high jump (sophomore Leontia Kallenou, who won the SEC and NCAA Indoor titles in this event earlier this spring, and the SEC Outdoor title clearing 6'3 1/2" back in May).  Saturday's action saw a pair of relay teams and another Dawg punch their ticket to the Pacific Northwest.

For anyone in Oregon hoping to catch the action, the Dawgs you can look for, follow, and cheer on are listed below.

• Seniors Elizabeth Tepe, women's hammer throw
• Senior Megan Malasarte, women's 800 meters
• Senior Johnathan Smith, men's 100 meters and men's 4 x 100 meter relay
• Junior Garrett Scantling, decathlon
• Junior Quintunya Chapman, heptathlon
• Junior Nick Vena, men's hammer throw
• Junior Brandon Lord, men's 10,000 meters
• Junior Drew Branch, men's 400 meter hurdles and men's 4 x 400 meter relay
• Sophomore Maicel Uibo, decathlon
• Sophomore Jamario Calhoun, men's 4 x 100 m relay
• Sophomore Freya Jones, women's javelin and the NCAA Champion in this event last year as a freshman
• Sophomore Leontia Kallenou, women's high jump and winner of this year's NCAA Indoor title in this event
• Sophomore Chanice Porter, women's long jump
• Sophomore Maurice Freeman, men's 4 x 400 meter relay
• Sophomore Carly Hamilton, women's 1,500 meters
• Sophomore Ayrian Evans, men's 4 x 400 meter relay
• Freshman Tatiana Gusin, women's high jump
• Freshman Brandon Thompson, men's 4 x 100 meter relay
• Freshman Alex Poursanidis, men's hammer throw
• Freshman Kendell Williams, heptathlon and winner of the NCAA Indoor title in this event earlier this spring
• Freshman Alex Larsson, men's hammer throw
• Freshman Reggie Glover, men's 4 x 100 meter relay and men's 4 x 400 meter relay

Gooooooooooooooooooo Dawgs!