BYU delivered another promising performance at the NCAA Track and Field Championships Thursday in Austin, Texas, advancing four athletes to Saturday’s finals.
After watching the BYU men’s team steal the show a day earlier, the women took their turn on another day devoted mostly to semifinal competition.
As expected, BYU’s Erica Birk-Jarvis, who had the second-fastest time in the nation entering the meet, qualified for the finals of the steeplechase. Running in the slowest of the two heats, Birk-Jarvis, a senior from Coalsville, finished with the seventh-fastest time in the semifinals (third in her heat). Two-time NCAA champion Allie Ostrander of Boise State won the other heat with a time of 9:44.