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SOU QUICK SCHEDULE (All times Pacific)
THURSDAY
8 a.m. – M Decathlon Day 1 (Dotson)
8:30 a.m. – W Heptathlon Day 1 (Sprauer)
12:30 p.m. – W 4x100m trials (Greenwade/Daniel/Hamman/Bonney/Sprauer/Crosswhite)
1 p.m. – M 4x100m trials (Saparto/Chapman/Tank/Vega/Beltz)
3:05 p.m. – M 200m trials (Chapman)
4:50 p.m. – W 3,000m Steeple trials (Storms, Weber)
5:10 p.m. – M 3,000m Steeple trials (Poteracke)
5:50 p.m. – W 10,000m final (Perkinson)
6:45 p.m. – M 10,000m final (Schireman)
FRIDAY
7:30 a.m. – M Decathlon Day 2 (Dotson)
8:30 a.m. – W Decathlon Day 2 (Sprauer)
11 a.m. – M Long Jump final (Beltz)
1:10 p.m. – M 100m trials (Vega)
1:30 p.m. – W 400m trials (Daniel)
4:10 p.m. – W 5,000m trials (Perkinson)
5 p.m. – M 5,000m trials (Oberriter)
5:45 p.m. – W 4x400m trials (Daniel/Crosswhite/Greenwade/Sprauer/Carson/Bonney)
SATURDAY
11:30 a.m. – M Triple Jump final (Beltz)
12 p.m. – W 3,000m Steeple final (Storms, Weber)
12:20 p.m. – M 3,000m Steeple final (Poteracke)
12:40 p.m. – W 4x100m final (Greenwade/Daniel/Hamman/Bonney/Sprauer/Crosswhite)
12:50 p.m. – M 4x100m final (Saparto/Chapman/Tank/Vega/Beltz)
2 p.m. – M 100m final (Vega)
2:30 p.m. – W 400m final (Daniel)
3:20 p.m. – M 200m final (Chapman)
3:30 p.m. – W 5,000m final (Perkinson)
3:55 p.m. – M 5,000m final (Oberriter)
4:15 p.m. – W 4x400m final (Daniel/Crosswhite/Greenwade/Sprauer/Carson/Bonney)

GULF SHORES, Alabama – For the second year in a row, the Southern Oregon University track and field team will be represented in 16 disciplines at the 67th annual NAIA Outdoor Championships, which are set to take place Thursday through Saturday at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium.

Once again, expectations are high all over the board. The Raiders have six top-eight seeds among their eight women's entries, and three of their nine men's entries are returning All-America performers.

The Raider women have put forth 14 All-America performances over the last seven years after a seven-year stretch in which they produced one, and they've captured individual championships each of the last four years after going 18 years without one, bringing their total to nine. Senior Jessa Perkinson, SOU's all-time leading scorer at the meet, returns one last time looking to repeat in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.

The men had seven All-America performances a year ago to tie for seventh in the team standings, just missing their best-ever showing of sixth, which has been attained three times and most recently in 2012. They'll enter the meet having won 13 event titles.

Below is an event-by-event look at SOU's entries:

MEN'S EVENTS
DECATHLON
8 a.m. Thursday: 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m
7:30 a.m. Friday: 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 1,500m
SOU Entry (16 total): Joseph Dotson, 6,251 (12th)
Of Note: Dotson may come into the meet as the No. 12 seed, but that's a poor indication of what to expect: After placing fifth in the decathlon as a freshman, he jumped to runner-up honors at last year's national meet with a personal-best score of 6,732. His considerably lower scores this year were the products of an ugly day in March at American River and a fluky no-height in the pole vault at Cascade Conference Multi-Event Championships. Oregon Tech's Seth Gretz, whom Dotson topped at the 2017 Outdoor Championships for the first time, enters as the favorite. SOU has never before produced a three-time All-American decathlete.

100 METERS
Trials: 1:10 p.m. Friday
Final: 1 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (32 total): Rey Vega, 10.65 (26th)
Of Note: SOU was represented in the 100 last year, by Matt East, for the first time since Antwun Baker placed sixth in 2009. East placed fifth in 10.43 seconds, the best showing in Raider history, and Vega will give the Raiders another shot as the Cascade Conference's only runner in the 100 on the men's or women's side. He ran his PR, the fourth-fastest on SOU's all-time list, on April 7 in Chico.

200 METERS
Trials: 3:05 p.m. Thursday
Final: 3:20 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (34 total): Eli Chapman, 21.59 (28th)
Of Note: After placing fourth in the 200 at the CCC Championships for the second year in a row, Chapman will head to his first national meet. His PR, also recorded on April 7 in Chico, is the third-fastest in Raider history, and it makes him SOU's first 200 runner at the Outdoor Championships since Cameron Bremner in 2014. Terry Hendrix put forth the school's only All-America performance in the race in 1982.

5,000 METERS
Trials: 5 p.m. Friday
Final: 2:55 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (25 total): Noah Oberriter, 14:50.59 (11th)
Of Note: Oberriter will attempt to round out a successful junior season after coming in as SOU's top finisher (16th) at the NAIA Cross Country Championships for All-America accolades in the fall. Making his first appearance at the Outdoor Championships, he's one of eight CCC runners slated to compete in the 5K and has the No. 2 time among them; he's coming off a fifth-place showing at the CCC Championships but recorded his PR just four weeks ago. SOU had never produced a 5K All-American until Dylan Alexander won the title in 2015 and placed third in '16.

10,000 METERS
Final: 6:45 p.m. Thursday
SOU Entry (22 total): Ray Schireman, 31:33.68 (18th)
Of Note: A year after the 10K featured just eight runners, Schireman will have to do more than just finish for All-America honors this week. The senior – who clocked his PR at the CCC Championships to place third – will be at the Outdoor Championships for the first time since 2015, when he took 15th in the 5K. SOU has produced all four of its 10K All-Americans since 2012 – most recently Connor Cushman, who was sixth (the best finish of the bunch) last season.

3,000-METER STEEPLECHASE
Trials: 5:10 p.m. Thursday
Final: 12:20 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (18 total): Kevin Poteracke, 9:06.91 (3rd)
Of Note: Back at the national meet for the third year in a row, Poteracke will try to become SOU's first three-time All-American in the event, having placed eighth in 2016 and seventh a year ago. This year, he cut seven seconds off his PR (on April 28 at the OSU High Performance Meet) and won the CCC title for the first time. As SOU's highest-seeded individual on the men's side, he's about two seconds behind the No. 2 seed and eight off the No. 1.

4x100-METER RELAY
Trials: 1 p.m. Thursday
Final: 12:50 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (32 total): Hayden Saparto, Eli Chapman, Aidan Tank, Rey Vega; Alternate: Zach Beltz, 41.42 (15th)
Of Note: The Raiders are back in the 4x100 after consecutive fourth-place finishes. Before 2016, they'd never reached the final of the race. This year's team is all new and is coming off SOU's eighth 4x100 title in nine years at the CCC Championships, where they beat the 'A' standard of 41.53 for the first time this season.

LONG JUMP
Final: 11 a.m. Friday
SOU Entry (29 total): Zach Beltz, 7.32m (24-0 ¼) (10th)
Of Note: As the No. 7 seed last year, Beltz earned the first long jump All-America accolades in SOU history by placing fourth with a school-record mark of 24 feet 10 inches – his best by nearly eight inches. He's fresh off his third straight CCC title – he was the Field Athlete of the Meet, also capturing first in the triple jump – and has won at five meets in which he's competed this season.

TRIPLE JUMP
Final: 11:30 a.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (32 total): Zach Beltz, 14.59m (47-10 ½) (20th)
Of Note: Beltz competed in the triple jump at the Outdoor Championships for the first time last year, taking 23rd of 26 entries. The back-to-back CCC champion will try to become SOU's first All-American in the discipline since Nick Hanson placed eighth in 2004 and sixth in '05.

WOMEN'S EVENTS
HEPTATHLON
8:30 a.m. Thursday: 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m
8:30 a.m. Friday: long jump, javelin, 800m
SOU Entry (16 total): Loghan Sprauer, 4,391 (11th)
Of Note: After winning SOU's first conference heptathlon championship since 2001, Sprauer will next try to attain SOU's first All-America plaque in the seven-discipline event since Jill Carrier won the national title in 1995. Sprauer tallied her highest total at the CCC Multi-Event Championships; she went on to win the CCC high-jump title and place second in both the 100 and 200.

400 METERS
Trials: 1:30 p.m. Friday
Final: 2:30 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (21 total): Arianna Daniel, 55.90 (8th)
Of Note: Daniel crushed her old personal best of 56.70 at the CCC Championships, where she swept the 100, 200 and 400 titles. Her new best is the second-fastest in school history and was enough to give her a top-eight seed at the Outdoor Championships, where she first appeared last year in the 200 (13th) and 4x100 (6th) and 4x400 (9th) relays. Only two Raiders have previously been 400 All-Americans: Tiwana Merritt (1999-2001-02) and Amelia Maguin (2015).

5,000 METERS
Trials: 4:10 p.m. Friday
Final: 3:30 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (14 total): Jessa Perkinson, 16:13.79 (2nd)
Of Note: Perkinson, the 12-time overall NAIA All-American, is back as the No. 2 seed after winning the title last year just hours after she placed sixth in the 1,500. The new PR of 16:13.79 that she recorded on April 19 at Azusa Pacific – which was, at the time, the fastest in the NAIA in nine years – was topped on May 12 by No. 1 seed Aminat Olowora (16:00.08) of Oklahoma City, who has yet to compete at the Outdoor Championships but won her second NAIA XC title in the fall and the 3K title at the Indoor Championships in March. Perkinson also placed third in the 5K in 2016 and became the first individual to win three consecutive CCC 5K titles on May 12.

10,000 METERS
Final: 5:50 p.m. Thursday
SOU Entry (18 total): Jessa Perkinson, 34:35.33 (1st)
Of Note: Perkinson won the NAIA 10K title in 2016, SOU's first-ever in a women's distance race, in 36:10.83. She's only run it once since then – on March 30 at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival, where she crushed that school record with a new PR of 34:35.33. She has the top seed by 29 seconds but will have to contend with Olowara (35:06.03) among others. A top-eight finish on Thursday night would make her SOU's first women's five-time All-American at the Outdoor Championships alone.

3,000-METER STEEPLECHASE
Trials: 4:50 p.m. Thursday
Final: 12 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entries (25 total): Bree Weber, 11:13.54 (8th); Jenna Storms, 11:21.27 (13th)
Of Note: Weber and Storms are the first Raiders back to run the steeple since Jessie Rozario placed 14th in 2013. Weber will be there in possession of a new school record, and she and Storms were second and fourth, respectively, at the CCC Championships. The Raiders are still looking for their first women's All-America steepler.

4x100-METER RELAY
Trials: 12:30 p.m. Thursday
Final: 12:40 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (27 total): Savannah Greenwade, Arianna Daniel, Margot Hamman, Lindsey Bonney; Alternates: Loghan Sprauer, Tara Crosswhite, 46.70 (8th)
Of Note: For the second year in a row, the Raiders' 4x100 team broke school and meet records at the CCC Championships, this time with a mark of 46.70. Like last year, they're back at the Outdoor Championships with the No. 8 seed, and three of the team's members – Greenwade, Daniel and Hammon – are the same. They placed sixth last year, which was SOU's first appearance in the 4x100 since 2012. Their only previous All-America showing was a sixth-place finish in 2002.

4x400-METER RELAY
Trials: 5:45 p.m. Friday
Final: 4:15 p.m. Saturday
SOU Entry (23 total): Arianna Daniel, Tara Crosswhite, Savannah Greenwade, Loghan Sprauer; Alternates: Brooke Carson, Lindsey Bonney, Margot Hamman, 3:50.78 (6th)
Of Note: The Raiders were in the 4x400 last year at the Outdoor Championships for the first time since 2004, and they just missed qualifying for the final at ninth place in the prelims. This year's team, after establishing a new school record at the OSU High Performance Meet on April 28, won its second straight CCC title by a margin of eight seconds on May 12. They'll aim for the school's first top-eight finish.