Saturday, March 9
Birmingham, Ala.
4 p.m.
Tulane University
vs
NCAA Indoor Championship
Markel Set for Saturday's NCAA Indoor Championship
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NEW ORLEANS – Rebekah Markel will be looking to make Tulane history on Saturday as she takes on the NCAA Indoor Championships at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
Markel will be competing for a national championship in the pole vault with the event beginning at 4 p.m. She will be one of 16 participants in the event.
The senior reached Saturday's national championship with her tremendous indoor season. She was named the American Athletic Conference Championship on February 22 when she was the only competitor to clear a height of 4.09 meters. She then continued on to set a meet record with a height of 4.23 meters to end the event.
Her national qualifying mark, though, came two weeks earlier at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At that meet, Markel reached a season best and new school record of 4.33 meters (14-2.5) that would prove to be just enough for her to qualify for the national championship meet. That mark put her in a three-way tie for 14th place nationally, and the NCAA takes the top 16 pole vaulters to the national meet.
One week before that at the LSU Bayou Bengal, Markel really got her year. Coming into the 2018-19 indoor season with a personal best of 4.15 meters, she cleared 4.16, 4.24 and 4.32 meters all at the LSU meet, blowing away her previous personal best while also setting a new school record in the process.
Markel will be Tulane's first participant at the NCAA Indoor Championship since Lilla McMillan and Jasmine Blocker ran in the 400 in 2016. She will be the program's first pole vaulter since Merritt Van Meter took 16th place in 2014. Markel will be just the third pole vaulter in team history to compete at the national meet.
No Tulane student-athlete has ever placed higher than third at the indoor national championship. Nadja Petersen (400, 2001), Hanne Lyngstad (mile, 1999) and the 1999 distance medley relay team all placed third in their event.
NEW ORLEANS – Rebekah Markel will be looking to make Tulane history on Saturday as she takes on the NCAA Indoor Championships at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
Markel will be competing for a national championship in the pole vault with the event beginning at 4 p.m. She will be one of 16 participants in the event.
The senior reached Saturday's national championship with her tremendous indoor season. She was named the American Athletic Conference Championship on February 22 when she was the only competitor to clear a height of 4.09 meters. She then continued on to set a meet record with a height of 4.23 meters to end the event.
Her national qualifying mark, though, came two weeks earlier at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At that meet, Markel reached a season best and new school record of 4.33 meters (14-2.5) that would prove to be just enough for her to qualify for the national championship meet. That mark put her in a three-way tie for 14th place nationally, and the NCAA takes the top 16 pole vaulters to the national meet.
One week before that at the LSU Bayou Bengal, Markel really got her year. Coming into the 2018-19 indoor season with a personal best of 4.15 meters, she cleared 4.16, 4.24 and 4.32 meters all at the LSU meet, blowing away her previous personal best while also setting a new school record in the process.
Markel will be Tulane's first participant at the NCAA Indoor Championship since Lilla McMillan and Jasmine Blocker ran in the 400 in 2016. She will be the program's first pole vaulter since Merritt Van Meter took 16th place in 2014. Markel will be just the third pole vaulter in team history to compete at the national meet.
No Tulane student-athlete has ever placed higher than third at the indoor national championship. Nadja Petersen (400, 2001), Hanne Lyngstad (mile, 1999) and the 1999 distance medley relay team all placed third in their event.
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