BIRMINGHAM,, Ala. – Anderson University junior standout Haylee Love posted a 14th-place overall finish, while running in the first heat of two preliminary rounds in the mile run at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, but fell just shy of advancing to Saturday's finals at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
Love capped off a stellar indoor season that saw her win Clemson's Last Chance Invitational earlier this month in a school-record time of 4:53.61. The Lexington, S.C., native became the first AU student-athlete to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships since former All-American Whitney Bishoff placed seventh in the preliminaries of the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships.
Love, whose time of 4:56.63 was just three seconds off her school-record pace, was one of only two women's competitors from the South Atlantic Conference in Birmingham, along with Nikia Squire from Queens University, who claimed berths in the 60 meter dash, 200 meter dash and the long jump. Love also earned a berth in the 2016 NCAA Cross Country Championships in St. Leo, Fla. last November.
