BOCA RATON, Fla. – Two Florida Atlantic University track and field members have qualified for the NCAA’s First Round. Natalliah Whyte and Anne-Catherine Wasser will compete at the East Regional in Jacksonville, Florida next Thursday, May 23 at the University of North Florida.
Whyte qualified for the 100 meter dash with her time of 11.17 during the first week of the outdoor season. That time is the sixth best among all NCAA East qualifiers. Wasser will compete in the 400 meter hurdles after logging a personal best time of 59.53 at the Conference USA Championship.
After building an impressive trophy case all season long, Whyte will look to add to it with an even bigger trophy. She won the 100 meter dash at the C-USA Championship last week by 0.38 and setting a new facility record for the Irwin Belk Track along the way with her time of 11.21. Earlier in the season, Whyte set the school record in both the 100 and 200 meter outdoor events, earning C-USA’s Athlete of the Week award twice. Whyte claimed second place in the 100 meter at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships while running at Auburn.
Wasser spent much of 2019 recovering from an injury, but has come back strong late in the outdoor season. Her 59.53 time in the 400 meter hurdles at the C-USA Championship was the fifth fastest time in program history and earned her a spot in the finals as the second fastest time in the prelims. In the finals, Wasser finished fifth.
The 400 meter hurdles prelims are set to be ran at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The 100 meter dash prelims will ran that same day at 6:30 p.m.
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FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
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Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
