Tonight at 6 p.m. (Central time) in College Station, Rice record-holder Katie Jensen will compete in the 3,000-meter finals of the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Katie has the 8th fastest qualifying time (9:05.66), only 4.45 seconds slower than the best of the 16 finalists. With just 6.01 seconds separating the first and 16th qualifying times, this race is wide open.

Here's a link to Adam Coleman's article on Katie in Friday's Houston Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/sports/rice/article...994014.php

(For comparison, the Oregonian's Friday article about the meet has 231 comments! http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/...ack_a.html )

Here's a link to the Riceowls.com article about Katie's record-breaking qualifying run at the Boston University Last Chance Meet a couple of weeks ago: http://www.riceowls.com/sports/w-track/s...17aaa.html

Here's the lineup (from: http://www.rtspt.com/ncaa/d1indoor17/declared_women.htm):



Results can be seen here: (http://www.ncaa.com/di-mens-and-womens-t...sults-2017)

Results and archived video can be seen here: http://www.flotrack.org/result/9639-2017...mpionships

I have not found a free site for live streaming video.

Best of luck to her today. She's already assured of being all-American I believe (top 8 should be 1st team and second 8 should be 2nd team?).

I would think Karissa Schweizer of Missouri is the favorite. She was the NCAA Cross Country champion in the fall and won the 5000 yesterday in College Station with a pretty impressive time (15:19.14).

Katie finished 12th (9:20.50) ... 11.3 seconds behind the winner, Dani Jones (Soph - Colorado / 9:09.20

Second was Karissa Schweizer (Jr. - Missouri / 9:09.33)

The full standings:

I wonder what happened. She has run <9:10 before. Anyway, congratulations to an All American. Maybe next year will be even better.

(03-11-2017 09:08 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  Katie finished 12th (9:20.50) ... 11.3 seconds behind the winner, Dani Jones (Soph - Colorado / 9:09.20

Second was Karissa Schweizer (Jr. - Missouri / 9:09.33)

The full standings:

Code:

1        Dani JONES           SO    Colorado    9:09.20                        
2        Karissa SCHWEIZER    JR    Missouri    9:09.33                        
3        Katie RAINSBERGER    FR    Oregon      9:09.87                        
4        Samantha NADEL       SR    Oregon      9:10.88                        
5        Vanessa FRASER       JR    Stanford    9:10.92                        
6        Katherine RECEVEUR   SO    Indiana     9:12.61                        
7        Allie BUCHALSKI      JR    Furman      9:13.39                        
8        Erin CLARK           SR    Colorado    9:13.56                        
9        Alli CASH            JR    Oregon      9:14.98                        
10       Tessa BARRETT        SO    Penn State  9:16.50                        
11       Elise CRANNY         JR    Stanford    9:17.85                        
12       Katie JENSEN         JR    Rice        9:20.50                        
13       Gina SERENO          JR    Michigan    9:21.67                        
14       Taylor WERNER        FR    Arkansas    9:27.66                        
15       Rachel KOON          SO    N. Car. St. 9:33.22                        
16       Claire GREEN         JR    Arizona     9:47.57

OldOwl - I believe it was hinted that she was paced in that other, open race, which usually helps with getting the qualifying time she needed. In a more tactical race like this, anything can happen, and you usually won't hit your best time for the season. That's still a great result, with another year to go.