Track and Field . March 5, 2019

Jonathas, Moore Added to NCAA Indoor Championships Field

Carolina NCAA Championships Qualifiers

Student-Athlete	Event	National Seed – Mark
Aliyah Abrams	Women’s 400m	11th – 52.58
Arinze Chance	Men’s 400m	16th – 46.15
Quincy Hall	Men’s 400m	7th – 45.69
Wadeline Jonathas	Women’s 400m	16th – 52.86
Isaiah Moore	Men’s 60m Hurdles	16th – 7.76
Yann Randrianasolo	Men’s Long Jump	6th – 7.94m
Chance, O. Jones, Hall, Robbins	Men’s 4x400m Relay	9th – 3:05.68
Davis, Abrams, Mills, Jonathas	Women’s 4x400m Relay	2nd – 3:29.56

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — University of South Carolina track & field student-athletes Wadeline Jonathas and Isaiah Moore have been added to this week’s NCAA Indoor Championships field, the NCAA announced Tuesday. Jonathas (women’s 400m) and Moore (men’s 60m hurdles) each ended the regular season ranked 17th in their event but moved into the top 16 due to medical scratches above them.

Jonathas was already scheduled to participate in the women’s 4x400m relay at the national meet and will now add her individual event to the calendar, while Moore earns his first NCAA indoor bid.

The 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships will be held March 8-9 at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala. Jonathas and Moore join Aliyah Abrams (women’s 400m), Arinze Chance (men’s 400m), Quincy Hall (men’s 400m) and Yann Randrianasolo (men’s long jump) as Gamecocks vying for individual national titles, while Carolina also fields entries in the men’s and women’s 4x400m relays.

Carolina fans who can’t make the trip to Birmingham can watch live coverage of the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships on ESPN3. The broadcasts begin Friday, March 8, at 6 p.m. ET and Saturday, March 9, at 5 p.m. ET.

WADELINE JONATHAS – JR – GONAIVES, HAITI – 400 METERS

Jonathas enters the NCAA Indoor Championships with a season-best time of 52.86, which she ran Feb. 8 at the Tiger Paw Invitational. Most recently, she finished 14th at the SEC Championships with a time of 53.63, and she anchored Carolina’s 4x400m relay to a silver-medal finish with a time of 3:29.56, which ranks second nationally.

This is the first NCAA Division I Championships appearance for Jonathas, but she is no stranger to the national stage. The Gonaives, Haiti, native spent her first two collegiate seasons at UMass Boston, where she won nine individual NCAA Division III national championships, earning indoor 400m and outdoor 200m and 400m titles in 2017 along with indoor 60m, 200m, 400m and long jump titles and outdoor 200m and 400m titles in 2018. As a sophomore, she scored enough points at the 2018 NCAA indoor meet to single-handedly win the team title for the Beacons.

ISAIAH MOORE – R-SR – BURLINGTON, N.C. – 60M HURDLES

Moore ran his best time of the season, 7.76, at the USC Indoor Open on Feb. 16. The redshirt senior has been incredibly consistent in the season’s final two weeks, running 7.78 in the USC Open prelims and 7.77 in both the prelims and final at the SEC Indoor Championships. The latter run netted him a bronze medal at the conference meet.

Moore is headed to the NCAA Indoor Championships for the first time in his career, and the late entry is especially sweet after he finished just two spots out of qualification for both the 2017 NCAA Indoor and 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Moore did qualify for the NCAA’s 2017 outdoor meet, where he earned first-team All-America laurels in the 110m hurdles.