Coastal Carolina University
NCAA Indoor Championships
Jefferson Set to Compete at 2022 NCAA D1 Indoor Track & Field Championships
3/10/2022 10:45:00 AM | Track & Field/Cross Country
Junior was a two-time Sun Belt Indoor Champion
CONWAY, S.C. – Coastal Carolina junior Melissa Jefferson will compete at the 2022 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, racing in the 60-meter dash. Her qualifying time of 7.22 in the event is first in the Sun Belt Conference and 12th nationally.
The women's 60-meter dash will start at 8:15 p.m. ET/7:15 p.m. CT on Friday, March 11. The meet will be video streamed live on ESPN3.
She is the first Chanticleer to qualify for the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships since Erica Peake in 2013.
Tabbed the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Women's Indoor Track Performer of the Year, Jefferson was a two-time 2022 Sun Belt Indoor Track & Field Champion, a 2022 All-Sun Belt first-team honoree, and three-time 2022 Sun Belt Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week award winner this season.
Jefferson had a record-setting performance on day two of the conference championship meet, as the junior sprinter won the gold medal in the 60-meter dash with a CCU school and Sun Belt Conference record time of 7.22. She crossed the finish line 0.17 of a second faster than the next finisher.
The third-year Chant went on to claim first-place honors in record-setting fashion again in the 200-meters, as Jefferson won the event with a Sun Belt meet record time of 23.39 to become a two-time Sun Belt Indoor Champion in 2022.
Overall at the Sun Belt Championship meet, Jefferson set two SBC records, won two events, and earned 20 points for her team.
The two-day NCAA D1 Championship meet will take place on March 11-12 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala.
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