Thursday, May 9
Charlottesville, Va.
Wake Forest University
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ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Deacs Ready for ACC Outdoor Championships
5/8/2019 9:02:00 AM | Track and Field
23 student-athletes to compete for conference titles in Charlottesville
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| Date | Time | May 9-11 | 6:00 p.m. |
| Location | Charlottesville, Va. | Lannigan Field |
| Stats | Live Results |
| Watch (ACCN Extra) | DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 |
| Information | @WakeTrack |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest track & field is set for the 2019 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Charlottesville, Va. 23 Demon Deacons will compete for conference titles at Lannigan Field at the University of Virginia.
DEACS LOAD BUS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE
• The Demon Deacons return to Charlottesville for the second time this season; this time, for the 2019 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
• The competition will be hosted by Virginia and take place at Lannigan Field
• Last season at the ACC Outdoor Championships, the Demon Deacons collected five All-ACC honors.
ACC NETWORK EXTRA COVERAGE
• The ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships will have various broadcast windows on ACC Network Extra.
• Former Olympic decathlon gold medalist Dan O'Brien will serve as the color analyst. He will be joined by veteran ESPN play-by-play announcer Shawn Kenney. The pair will be joined by distance analyst David Mitchell and Melanie Newman as a sideline reporter.
• Coverage will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 6 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Saturday.
HALVORSEN SEEKS TITLE IN 5K AND 10K
• The 2018 second team outdoor All-America selection (10k) enters the 2019 conference championships ranked fifth in the women's 5k at 16:06.17 (2019 Virginia Challenge). She'll also make her '19 debut in the women's 10k, which she holds the fourth-best outdoor time in school history at 33:52.69.
SUCCESS IN THE FIELD
• The Deacs have seen great success in the field this outdoor season.
• Tesia Kempski set a personal record of 4.12m (13-6.25) in the women's pole vault at the Virginia Challenge. That mark is good for third-best in Wake Forest History.
• The Harrisburg, Penn. native competed in six outdoor meets for the Deacs in 2019, finishing with three victories and a season-low third-place finish at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier. She ranks seventh in the ACC in the event.
SCHULZ, KONOPELSKI AND LYNCH MAKE CASE FOR TEAM MVP'S
• In their first year with the Deacs as graduate student-athletes, Johanna Schulz and Danielle Konopelski have impressed immediately out the gate. Both find themselves in position to earn podium status in Charlottesville. Schulz, a 2018 indoor first team All-ACC selection, recently jumped up the Wake Forest leaderboard with a second-best time in history of 2:06.24 in the women's 800m. She won the 800m at the Liberty qualifier with the historic finish and earned two other top-10 finishes during the outdoor season.
• Konopelski, a graduate transfer from Queens University of Charlotte, found her rhythm immediately with the Deacs. In her first appearance, at the High Point Vertklasse, she took third-place with a distance of 47.77m in the women's javelin. The mark is good for second-best in school history. She finished in the top-five (4) at both the Raleigh Relays and Virginia Challenge.
• Lynch has been a steady force for Wake Forest all year long. Her shot put distance of 15.80m shattered her previous career-best and launched her up the Demon Deacons rankings to second all-time behind Lindsay Neuberger (2007). She competed in five meets in the outdoor season, winning the shot put at the Charlotte Invitational (Apr. 12-13) and taking third in the discus throw at the Liberty Qualifier with a career-best of 45.43m. She enters the outdoor championships ranked sixth in the shot put and 17th in the discus.
FRESHMAN SPOTLIGHT
• Zach Facioni has immediately solidified himself among Wake Forest elite during his inaugural season. The Sydney, Australia native set a new school record in the men's outdoor 5k at the 2019 Raleigh Relays. His finishing time of 13:48.16 broke a 38 year-old record set by David Crowe in 1981. Facioni enters the conference championships ranked No. 1 in the 5k and ninth in the east region.
• Nine of Wake Forest's 23 competitors this week are competing as freshmen.
UP NEXT
• Pending the outcome of this weekend's competition, the 2019 NCAA East Region Preliminary round will be held May 23-25 in Jacksonville, Florida.
EXPECTED ENTRIES
Men's 100m
Ethan Roach
Women's 400m
Cydney Delley
Men's 800m
Dakota Greenwalt
Archie Wallis
Women's 800m
Johanna Schulz
Men's 1500m
Brent Bailey
Women's 1500m
Amy Harding-Delooze
Johanna Schulz
Men's 5000m
Zach Facioni
Aaron Las Heras
Women's 5000m
Hannah Brookover
Sam Halvorsen
Mimi Smith
Men's 10000m
Myers McKinney
Women's 10000m
Sam Halvorsen
Meredith Helton
Mimi Smith
Women's 3k Steeplechase
Hannah Brookover
Elise Wright
Men's High Jump
Anthony Jones
Women's High Jump
Alexandria Florent
Women's Pole Vault
Tesia Kempski
Women's Shot Put
Janese Lynch
Women's Hammer
Alva Hicks
Women's Discus
Alva Hicks
Janese Lynch
Men's Javelin
Elijah Shalaway
Women's Javelin
Rachel Kern
Danielle Konopelski
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