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2010 Outdoor Performances: Men | Women

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Syracuse track & field team resumes its outdoor postseason campaign when it travels to the 2010 NCAA Division I East Regional Championship hosted by North Carolina A&T State University. The three-day event begins Thursday, May 27 and continues through Saturday, May 29 at the Irwin Bell Track. The Orange will send 23 student-athletes to take part in 10 different events.

The Orange had a week rest after competing at the ECAC/IC4A Championships at Princeton, where eight student-athletes earned NCAA Regional-qualifying standards. The men finished tied for 18th-place, while the women tied for 21st. Graduate student Michael LeBlanc earned his third consecutive title in the 100-meter dash (10.47), while also leading the 400-meter relay team, consisting of LeBlanc, graduate student Antoine Clark, junior Jarret Eaton and freshman Darryl White, to its fastest time of the season (40.36). For the women, sophomore Heather Stephens broke the Syracuse record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:14.04).

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The steeplechase event will be heavily populated with Orange, as juniors Rebekah MacKay and Cassie White and sophomores Natalie Busby and Heather Stephens will represent the women, while senior Curtis Bixler will compete for the men.

MacKay earned her bid to Regionals after taking the event title at the Larry Ellis Invite (10:20.07), while White finished sixth at the ECAC Championship for her best mark of the year (10:26.29). Busby posted four Regional-qualifying marks, including her best time at the Larry Ellis Invite, where she finished fourth (10:29.41). Stephens earned NCAA Regional-qualifying standards three times this season, including her season-best performance at the ECAC Championship. She reset the old standard in the steeplechase after MacKay recorded a school-best time of 10:20.07 in mid-April.

Bixler just reached the Regional mark at the IC4A Championships, where he finished with a time of 9:01.70.

The Orange will also have adequate representation in the 10,000-meter run, as graduate student Nana Sang-Bender, senior Stefanie Slekis, junior Catherine DeSarle and freshman Kimberly Spano will all run the event. BIG EAST Champion sophomore Tito Medrano will race for the men.

DeSarle holds the fastest time this season (34:17.09) after resetting the school record recorded by Slekis earlier this season. Slekis bested a 27-year old record at the Stanford Invite after posting a 10th-place time of 34:52.12. Both Spano and Sang-Bender earned their NCAA Regional-qualifying marks at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship after posting sixth- (25:07.55) and seventh-place (35:22.62) finishes, respectively.

Despite winning the BIG EAST title, Medrano only hit NCAA Regional-qualifying standards at the Stanford Invite, where he recorded a season-best time of 29:17.92.

A bulk of the Orange men will take the line for the 5,000-meter run, including graduate student Jeff Scull, seniors Dan Busby and Brad Miller and sophomore Corey Robinson. The women will also boast one representative in junior Katie Hursey.

Busby and Miller lead the men in the event after posting first- (13:57.09) and second-place (13:57.65) finishes at the Stanford Invite. Scull also punched his ticket to the Regionals at the same meet with a 10th-place showing (14:03.56), while Robinson just made the cut at the Larry Ellis Invite with a time of 14:14.84.

Hursey also tops the season-best list after reaching NCAA Regional-qualifying standards at the Stanford Invite (16:42.82).

The final distance event the Orange will take part in is the 1,500-meter run, which will be comprised of senior Maegan Krifchin, who owns a school-record time of 4:22.65 set at the UNC Joe Hilton, and sophomore Lauren Penney, who qualified in 4:23.70.

Thursday's NCAA Regionals gets underway at 10 a.m. with the men's javelin. The first event the Orange will take part in is the women's high jump and 1,500-meter run at 5 p.m.