TYLER, TEXAS – Summer Grubbs of UT Tyler women's track and field has begun her preparations to compete in the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships in Pittsburg, Kansas.
 
MAKING HISTORY
 
Grubbs is the first individual Division II athlete at UT Tyler to make a national event, and will look to bring home the first medal in indoor track and field for UT Tyler since 2017 when Whitney Simmons won the national championship in the weight throw.
 
Her performances at the Lone Star Conference Indoor Championships in the 200 meters and the pentathlon broke her own school records in the events and led to being one of the top competitors in the country.
 
Her mark of 3659 points in the pentathlon ranks her 12^th overall in all of Division II, and her 200 meter time of 24.28 placed her 16^th overall in Division II.
 
THE MEET
 
The 2022 Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships will take place on the campus of Pittsburg State inside their state of the art Robert W. Plaster Center. This is the second time this season that Grubbs will compete inside the Robert W. Plaster Center, after she competed in the Boo Rogers Combined Events and the Crimson & Gold Invitational back on Dec. 3-4.
 
The Harvey Dean Track inside the Robert W. Plaster Center is one of only six university owned 300 meter tracks in the entire United States. The track surface is Mondo Super X Performance and the facility features room for almost 1,500 spectators.
 
SCHEDULE
 
Grubbs will make her NCAA Championships debut on Friday at 5:35 p.m. in the 200 meter preliminary round. If she finishes with a top eight time in the preliminaries, she will move on to the final of the 200 meters that will take place on Saturday at 6:55 p.m.
 
On Saturday, the women's pentathlon will begin at 10 a.m. and Grubbs will be one of 14 athletes competing. At 10 a.m., the 60 meter hurdles will get the pentathlon started. The high jump will be next up, starting at 10:45 a.m. Then the athletes will get a short break before resuming competition at the shot put at 12:45 p.m., then the long jump will take place immediately following the shot put at 1:30 p.m. Finally, the pentathlon will finish at 3 p.m. with the 800 meter run.