The No. 16 Nationally Ranked Dillard’s Women’s Track & Field Program Has Six Secure Places at the 2022 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships

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New Orleans – The No. 16 nationally ranked Dillard's women's track & field program will be represented by six athletes in six different events at the 2022 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships from May 25-27 in Gulf Shores, Ala. at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium Complex, the national governing body recently announced.

The 4x100m relay team of Kevell Byrd, Ryan Smith, Rachel Rowe and Ta'Nijal Matthews will start the competition for the women at 3:40 p.m. The finals for the event will be on 2:40 p.m. on Friday, May 27. The Dillard group are ranked 24th nationally with a time of 47.59.

Smith and Byrd also compete in the preliminaries of the 200m on the first day, May 25, starting at 6 p.m. Byrd ranks fifth nationally (23.72), while Smith is seventh (23.81). The finals for the event are set for 5:10 p.m. on Friday, May 27.

Rowe also competes on the opening day, May 25, in the long jump at 7:30 p.m. Rowe is ranked 15th nationally with her jump of 5.75m.

Byrd starts the second day, May 26, for Dillard at 4:20 p.m. in the 100m. The finals are set for Friday, May 27, at 3:50 p.m. Byrd is placed 12th nationally with her mark of 11.85m.

Byrd also qualified in the 400m. The preliminaries of the event are set for May 26 at 5 p.m. The finals of the 400m begins at 4:30 p.m. on May 27. Byrd is ranked eighth nationally with her run of 55.48.

Rowe and Leila Walton also compete on the second day, May 26, in the triple jump at 5:30 p.m. Rowe is ranked sixth nationally with a 12.05m. Walton is 23rd with her leap of 11.62m

The 4x400 relay team of Byrd, Smith, Karmyn Dotson and Ta'Nijal Matthews finishes up the second day of competition for Dillard and will run at 9:15 p.m. in the preliminaries of their event. The finals are set for 6:15 p.m. on Friday, May 27. The Dillard group is 14th nationally with a 3:54.65.

Next, Dillard's women's program will send their delegation of six competitors to Gulf Shores, Alabama for the 2022 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships from May 25-27.

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