NCAA West Preliminaries Primer

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State begins the road to NCAA Championships with NCAA West Preliminaries May 24-27 in Sacramento, California. The Cyclones have 28 entries including one relay.

Live results are provided by Flash Results. Events will be streamed each day on ESPN+ available at the links above. The top 12 from each event will advance to NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas June 7-10.

Iowa State has four returners who punched their tickets to the Championships last year, Jason Gómez and Cebastian Gentil in the 800m and Kevin Sakson and Emily March in the discus.

Zach Podraza will get the Cyclones started on Wednesday with the javelin with his fourth trip to West Prelims in the event. Day one will continue with the men's events before the women begin competition Thursday.

Three freshman, Emanuel Galdino (1,500m), Rachel Joseph (400m) and Makayla Clark (800m), earned their spot in West Prelims while four other Cyclones will also make their regionals debut. Madelynn Hill qualified in the 5,000m, Titus Winders in the 5,000m, Thai Thompson in 400m hurdles and Kelvin Bungei in the 3,000m steeplechase.

Zakiyah Amos will compete for the first time at NCAA Prelims in 400m hurdles after racing in the 400m dash in previous years while both Ezekiel Rop and Chad Johnson will run in the 1,500m after qualifying in the 5,000m last year. Rop enters the 1,500m as the No. 3 seed.

The quartet of Jason Gómez, Darius Kipyego, Peter Smith, Cebastian Gentil returns once again to West Prelims in the 800m run, all are top-10 ranked program performers in the event. The squad lowered their average time to 1:47.64 after Big 12 Championships to move up to now rank second in the nation.

Iowa State's full schedule is below. All times shown are in central.

Iowa State Schedule

Wednesday

3:30 p.m.: Javelin (M) - Zach Podraza

8 p.m.: Shot Put (M) - Kevin Sakson

8:30 p.m.: 1,500m First Round (M) - Ezekiel Rop, Chad Johnson, Emanuel Galdino

9:50 p.m.: 800m First Round (M) - Jason Gómez, Darius Kipyego, Peter Smith, Cebastian Gentil

10:20 p.m.: 400m Hurdles First Round (M) - Thai Thompson

Thursday

12 p.m.: Hammer (W) - Kaitlyn Burson

8 p.m.: Long Jump (W) – Sydney Willits

8 p.m.: 100m Hurdles First Round (W) - Kaylyn Hall, Katarina Vlahovic

9:25 p.m.: 400m First Round (W) - Rachel Joseph

10:20 p.m.: 400m Hurdles First Round (W) – Zakiyah Amos

11:10 p.m.: 10,000m (W) – Cailie Logue, Dana Feyen

Friday

3 p.m.: Discus (M) – Kevin Sakson

*7:15 p.m.: 1,500m Quarterfinals (M)

7:40 p.m.: 3,000m Steeplechase (M) – Gable Sieperda, Kelvin Bungei

*9:05 p.m.: 800m Quarterfinals (M)

*9:25 p.m.: 400m Hurdles Quarterfinals (M)

10:10 p.m.: 5,000m (M) – Titus Winders

Saturday

3:00 p.m.: Discus (W) – Emily March

7:40 p.m.: 3,000m Steeplechase (W) – Janette Schraft

*8:15 p.m.: 100m Hurdles Quarterfinals (W)

*8:50 p.m.: 400m Quarterfinals (W)

*9:05 p.m.: 800m Quarterfinals (W)

*9:25 p.m.: 400m Hurdles Quarterfinals (W)

10:10 p.m.: 5,000m (W): Cailie Logue, Madelynn Hill

10:45 p.m.: 4x400m Relay (W) – Bria Barnes, Zakiyah Amos, Rachel Joseph, Makayla Clark

*The top 24 from the first round will advance to quarterfinals

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Players Mentioned

Zakiyah Amos

Bria Barnes

Kelvin Bungei

Kaitlyn Burson

Makayla Clark

Dana Feyen

Emanuel Galdino

Cebastian Gentil

Kaylyn Hall

Madelynn Hill

Chad Johnson

Rachel Joseph

Darius Kipyego

Cailie Logue

Emily March

Zach Podraza

Ezekiel Rop

Kevin Sakson

Janette Schraft

Gable Sieperda

Peter Smith

Thai Thompson

Katarina Vlahovic

Sydney Willits

Titus Winders

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