Campus briefs

UTAH STATE

INDOOR TRACK & FIELD: Three Aggie track and field athletes will be in action at the NCAA National Championships, with John Strang opening heptathlon action on Friday while Clint Silcock and Sonia Grabowska will be competing Saturday. The NCAA's are hosted by Texas A&M at the McFerrin Athletic Center in College Station, Texas.

Strang, a senior from Hawthorne, N.J., opens heptathlon action today at 1 p.m. (MDT) with the 60-meter dash, followed by the long jump at approximately 1:40 p.m. The shot put starts at 2:45 p.m., with the high jump commencing an hour later. On Saturday, the hepthathlon concludes with the 60m hurdles at 1 p.m., the pole vault at 1:45 and 1,000m run at 4:15.

Grabowska, a sophomore from Warsaw, Poland, will be in action in the pole vault at 5 p.m. while Salmon, Idaho native and sophomore Silcock starts the high jump at 5:15 p.m.

Strang has the No. 14 qualifying mark with 5,522 points, a USU school record that he set in winning the Western Athletic Conference heptathlon championship for the second-straight year.

Silcock holds the No. 5 qualifying high jump height of 2.20 meters (7 feet, 2.5 inches) at the Washington State Cougar Invitational on Jan. 31. He won the WAC high jump title, clearing 7 feet, 1 inch (2.16 meters).

Grabowska is tied for the No. 8 qualifying height in the pole vault at 4.20 meters (13 feet, 9.5 inches). That mark set on Jan. 18 at USU's Wilson Motor Invitational, smashing the previous Utah State and Nelson Fieldhouse record of 13 feet, 1/4 inch (3.97 meters) by Kathryn Duhadway in 2006. Grabowska also qualifies for the European Under-23 Track & Field Championships, as well as tying for the second-best mark by a Polish pole vaulter and her mark is now tied for the 15th-best in the world this season.

A total of 568 participants will compete in the championships. Student-athletes qualified for the championships by reaching the automatic or provisional standards established for each event.

UTAH

SOFTBALL: Junior center fielder Kara Foster and senior first baseman Staci Hemingway both went 2-for-3, but the University of Utah softball team dropped a 5-0 decision Thursday against the Radford Highlanders in its third game of the Chevron Spring Fling at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.