Weiss, Williams, Frazier announced as qualifiers for NCAA Division III Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Weiss, Williams, Frazier announced as qualifiers for NCAA Division III Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships

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SPRINGFIELD — Juniors Taylor Weiss (Powell, Ohio/Olentangy Liberty), Julissa Williams (Lorain, Ohio/Lorain) and Meghan Frazier (Alliance, Ohio/Alliance) have qualified for the 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the NCAA announced on Friday night.

Weiss and Williams both qualified for the national meet in the high jump. Weiss posted a season-best mark of 1.70 meters in the event at the Otterbein Twilight on April 19. She was an All-North Coast Athletic Conference performer in the high jump with a second-place showing. Williams posted her season-best mark of 1.69 meters to earn the high jump title at the NCAC Outdoor Championships on May 3. Weiss enters the NCAA meet tied for seventh nationally, and Williams is tied for 11th.

Frazier has qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 400 meters after running a season-best time of 55.82 seconds at the Augustana Midwest Final Qualifier on Thursday. Her time marked a new school record, breaking the prior record of 55.97 seconds set by Brea Medlock in 2016. She enters the national meet as the No. 16 seed in the 400.

The top 22 declared student-athletes in each individual event and the top 16 declared relay teams qualify for the NCAA Championships, which are scheduled for May 23-25 at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The women's high jump is set to be contested on Friday, May 24, at 1:30 p.m. The women's 400-meter prelims are scheduled for May 24 at 5 p.m. with the top eight finishers qualifying for the final on Saturday, May 25, at 5:10 p.m. To follow the live results, click here.

This marks the second appearance at a national meet this year for Weiss, Williams and Frazier, as all three qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the same events in March. Weiss and Williams finished tied for 15th and 19th, respectively, in the high jump, and Frazier posted a 15th-place showing in the 400 at the Indoor Championships. Williams also qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2023, posting a 15th-place finish in the high jump.

In addition to her All-Conference accolade in the outdoor high jump this season, Weiss was an All-NCAC and All-Region performer in the indoor high jump and earned one NCAC Athlete of the Week honor.

Williams swept the indoor and outdoor conference titles in the high jump, was once selected as NCAC Athlete of the Week and was named All-Region in the indoor high jump.

Named Wittenberg's 2024 NCAC women's Scholar-Athlete Award winner and a member of the NCAC 40th Anniversary All-Decade Women's Outdoor Track and Field Team, Frazier owns a lengthy list of accolades this season. During the indoor season, she was named NCAC Sprinter/Hurdler of the Year, won conference titles in the 60, 200 and 4x400 relay and was USTFCCCA All-Region in the 60, 400 and 4x400 relay. Her success continued throughout the outdoor season, as she was part of the NCAC champion 4x100 relay team and added All-NCAC honors in the 100 and 200. She has also earned three NCAC Athlete of the Week honors throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons.

The Wittenberg women's track and field team won conference championships in both the indoor and outdoor seasons this year under head coach Paris Hilliard.