Tanise Thornton-Fillyaw To Compete at Third Straight NCAA Indoor Championships

INDIANAPOLIS - Goucher College women's indoor track and field junior Tanise Thornton-Fillyaw has qualified for this week's NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships in the 800 meter run.This marks her third year in a row that she has qualified. The championships will be held at Golisano Training Center in Rochester, New York.

The women's 800 prelims are set for Friday at 4:00pm, with the finals set for Saturday at 5:05 pm.

Thornton-Fillyaw enters the championships as the No. 1 seed, with a time of 2:09.06, improving on both her seed and time from last year.

Last weekend, Thornton-Fillyaw won the women's 800 at the Landmark Conference Championship for the third straight year, setting her NCAA DIII record time to place her in No. 1. 

This weekend's NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships can be seen live on NCAA.com.

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