3/4/2011 8:31:22 PM / Men's Track & Field
Whitehead Added To NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship Field
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Senior
Ryan Whitehead (Darien, Conn.) of the Southern Connecticut State University men's indoor track and field team has been added to the field for the 2011 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Whitehead, who has already collected All-America honors in the pole vault during his Owls' career, will participate in both the pole vault and the heptathlon.
Whitehead posted a new school record in the heptathlon with a score of 4,880 points set at the Metropolitan Championships. He also reached a height of 15 feet, 11 inches at the Mets.
In all, the Owls will send eight student-athletes to the NCAA Championships, which will be held next week in Albuquerque, New Mexico.