INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Div. II Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced the participants for the 2019 NCAA Div. II Indoor Track and Field Championships. Missouri Western’s Hanna Williams was officially named a participant in the women’s 400 meter dash.

The announcement comes as no surprise, as Williams registered an automatic qualifying mark at the Bearcat Invite on Feb. 9 with a time of 54.37. She was the first Missouri Western student-athlete to earn an automatic qualifying mark in the program’s two-year history. Williams also becomes the second Griffon to qualify for the Indoor Track and Field Championships after Philip Thompson took third in the men’s triple jump last season.

Williams’ time of 54.37 seeds her third out of the 20 runners in the event. In the 400 meter, Williams shaved off over a second from her previous career-best of 55.83 entering this season. The sophomore has four wins this season in three different events.

The championships will be held March 8-9 in Pittsburg, Kansas at the Robert W. Plaster Center on the campus of Pittsburg State University. The site will be a familiar track for Williams, as she has already raced on the track once this year and multiple times last season.

— MWSU Athletics —