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LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV track & field program will be well represented in Eugene, Ore., at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials next month. Rising senior Kaysee Pilgrim as well as Rebel alumnae Amanda Bingson and Lekeisha Lawson will compete at the 10-day meet (July 1-10) held at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon.
Pilgrim, a rising senior from Phoenix, just capped off her first year of collegiate competition for the Scarlet & Gray with an 11th-place showing at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, which were also contested earlier this month at Hayward Field. By virtue of her finish, Pilgrim earned USTFCCCA All-America Second Team honors. She qualified for the Olympic Trials (16th overall seed) with a program- and season-best measurement of 6-0.75 (1.85m) that she recorded at the Mt. SAC Relays.
Bingson (2009-12) will be making her sixth appearance at the U.S. meet. After she won three consecutive Mountain West titles in the hammer throw between 2010-12 and exhausted her collegiate eligibility, she finished second at the U.S. Olympic Trials and, in turn, earned a spot on Team USA at the London Olympics. One year later in Des Moines, Iowa, she won the first of two national titles behind successive throws, including one of 248-5 (74.92m), which not only reset the Drake Stadium record, but also placed her name atop the American record book -- the mark was surpassed earlier this year by Gwen Berry (250-4/76.31m) in May. In 2014, she successfully defended her title in Sacramento, Calif., with another measurement that rewrote a stadium mark. Last year, she placed third at the U.S. Championships and later represented the Red, White & Blue in Beijing at the 15th IAAF World Championships. She heads to Oregon seeded fourth behind a qualifying measurement of 237-4 (72.35m).
Lawson (2006-09) qualified for both the 100m and 200m in Eugene, and is seeded 11th in the former with a time of 11.07 and 33rd in the latter (22.98). She ran a time of 11.07 in the 100m at a meet held at the Olympic Training Center last week in Chula Vista, Calif., to earn a spot in Eugene. Earlier this month, she took first in the 100m (11.11) and second in the 200m (22.98) -- a time that qualified for the Olympic Trials -- at the USATF So Cal Jim Bush Championships. Nearly one year ago, Lawson helped Team USA claim gold at the 2015 Pan American Games. As a senior in 2009, she registered a pair of second-place finishes in the 100m and 200m at the 2009 MW Outdoor Championships.
Individual Schedules:
Pilgrim/High Jump
July 1: Qualifying, 4:15 pm
July 3: Final, 7:15 pm
Lawson/100m
July 2: First Round, 12: 33 pm
July 3: Semifinals, 4:02 pm; Final, 5:44 pm
Lawson/200m
July 8: First Round, 3:30 pm
July 9: Semifinals, 5:03 pm
July 10: Final, 5:11 pm
Bingson/Hammer
July 6: Qualifying, 1:00 pm; Final, 3:00 pm
