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NCAA Indoor Championships
Rogers Ready to Represent Cardinals at NCAA Indoor Championships
March 07, 2024 | Track & Field
BOSTON, Mass. -- The Cardinals' indoor track and field season will wrap up on Friday, March 8 as Jenelle Rogers competes in the NCAA Indoor Championships at the New Balance Track in Boston, Massachusetts. Â
Rogers will represent the Cardinals in the pentathlon starting at 10 a.m. Friday morning. She is currently ranked 10th in the event, seeking a strong finish to the indoor season. Â
Looking back, Rogers has continued to impress throughout the season. She started strong at the Tom Wright Opener (Dec. 9)Â by sweeping her three events that consisted of the 60m hurdles, the shot put and the long jump. Â
Entering 2024, Rogers finished second in the high jump at the Hawkeye Invite (Jan. 13). In the following weeks she secured two more first-place finishes in both the 60m hurdles and the shot put, as well as two more second-place finishes in the long jump at Eastern Michigan's Bob Parks Memorial (Jan. 20) and IUPUI's Jaguar Invitational (Jan. 26-27). Â
At the Meyo Invitational (Feb. 2) Rogers hit a new personal best in the pentathlon with 4163 points, a score good for a top-ten national ranking. Â
Closing the regular season, Rogers collected a first-place finish in the long jump at the GVSU Big Meet (Feb. 9). Â
At the indoor MAC Championships (Feb. 23-24) Rogers took home gold in two events, the pentathlon (4046) and the long jump (6.26m). She dominated the pentathlon, winning three of the five events which consisted of the 60m hurdles, the shot put and the long jump. Â
Rogers has experience competing at this level having competed last year at the 2023 Outdoor NCAA Championships. In her first NCAA Championship appearance, she finished 5th in the heptathlon collecting a new personal best of 6018 points. Â
Friday's pentathlon competition will open with the 60m hurdles. Â
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