Ten male and five female track & field student-athletes will be competing in the NCAA Championships set for Thursday through Saturday at the Burns Track & Field complex in Claremont, Calif.

The women's team will be represented by Kayla Hillman, Becky Ponick, Alicia Potting, Alyssa Rasmussen and Katie Rydeen.

The men's team will be represented by Jared Brandenburg, James Butler, Clai Catto, Jordan Crockett, Scott Jensen, Indy Liljevall, Michael Sandle, Paul Schreiner, Benjamin Tykwinski and Michael Woodward.

“The 10 men and 15 total student-athletes competing is the most by a UWRF team ever at a National meet,” said Falcon Coach Aaron Decker.

Ponick, a three-time WIAC javelin champion, will compete in her specialty on Saturday with that completion starting at 3:45 p.m. She enters the competition with the sixth best throw in the nation – 141-1 ¼ - and that is the school record.

Rasmussen will compete in two events – the 200 and 400-meter dashes. The prelims for the 200 are at 5:45 p.m., on Thursday. She has the 10^th best time in the nation entering the meet – 24.58 – that is the Falcon school record. The 200 finals will be run at 5:10 p.m., on Saturday. The 400 prelims will be held at 5:50 p.m., on Friday. Rasmussen's time of 55.59 is the eighth best in the country. The finals will be run at 3:40 p.m., on Saturday.

Hillman will compete in the pole vault competition. That event will be held on Saturday starting at 12:30 p.m. Hillman's best leap this year is 12-1 ¼ - which is the school record. That leap is the 19^th best in the nation this year. There are 22 entrants in the event.

Rydeen will compete in the 10,000-meter run and that event will start at 6:20 p.m., on Thursday. She has the 16^th best time in the country of 36:13.96.

Potting has the 18^th best leap in the long jump this year – 18-8. She will compete in the event starting at 3 p.m., on Thursday.

The Falcon men's team has two relay teams entered in this year's meet. The 4x100 team of Butler, Crockett, Sandle and Woodward set a school record with a time of 41.35. Their time is the sixth best in the nation. The prelims for that race will be at 4:15 p.m., on Thursday and the finals are set for 2:40 p.m., on Saturday.

The 4x400 relay team of Schreiner, Liljevall, Jensen and Crockett will compete in the prelims of that event at 9:15 p.m., on Thursday. They have a season-best time of 3:14.19 and that is the 11^th best time in the country this year. The finals will be the last race of the event and is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., on Saturday.

Brandenburg will compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. That prelim race will be held at 8:30 p.m., on Thursday with the finals set for 2:10 p.m., on Saturday. Brandenburg set a school record in the race with a time of 9:00.78 and his time is the fifth best in the country entering the meet.

The Falcons have two entrants in the triple jump – Sandle and Woodward. Sandle, who won the NCAA Championship in the indoor triple jump in March, has a best leap of 49-1 ½ which is the sixth best jump in the country. His distance is also the school record. Woodward is not far behind. He has a best leap of 48-11 ¾ and that is the nation's seventh best. The event will start at 12:50 p.m., on Saturday.

Tykwinske will compete in the hammer throw. He has the 15^th best throw in the nation – 187-1 ¼, which is just under five inches short of the school record. The event will be start at 2:05 p.m., on Friday.

Cato, who earned All-American honors in the high jump at the NCAA indoor meet in March, will compete in the high jump on Friday at 5:45 p.m. He has the 13^th best leap - 6-9 - in the country entering the meet.

Crockett, who is running on both relay teams, will also compete in the 200. He set the school record earlier this year with a time of 21.56. His time is the 20^th best in the nation this year. The 200 prelims will be held at 6 p.m., on Thursday and the finals are at 5:20 p.m., on Saturday.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps is the host institution of this year's NCAA Meet.