Jaylen Bacon Qualifies for 60m Dash Final at NCAA Indoor Championships

COLLEGE STATION, Texas. (3/10/17) – Arkansas State junior sprinter Jaylen Bacon qualified for the 60-meter dash final while senior thrower Erin Farmer claimed second team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships Friday.

Bacon, running in the second of the two heats, broke his own school record with a time of 6.57 seconds. He placed second in the heat two automatically advance, but was just .002 behind heat winner Kendal Williams (Georgia). Seeded ninth before competition, Bacon enters the final ranked fifth among those qualifiers. The 60-meter dash final is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

“Proud of Jaylen for making the final and earning first team All-America,”…