March 6, 2001

WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Eight members of the Wake Forest University men's and women's track & field teams are headed to the 2001 NCAA Indoor Championships this Friday and Saturday at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. Both the men's and women's teams will send their Distance Medley Relay squads, Sara Day will run in the Women's 3,000-Meter Run and Jill Snyder will compete in the Women's Mile Run.

Nathan Sisco, Ryan Hamilton, Paul Singleton and Chris Estwanik make up the men's Distance Medley Relay team that will compete for the Demon Deacons. These four broke the school record, as well as the conference record, two weeks ago at the Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet, running an automatically qualifying time of 9:37.51.

Snyder, Carol Merritt, Nikeya Green and Day will compete in the women's Distance Medley Relay. Snyder, Merritt, Green and Kelly Brady broke Wake Forest's school record with a provisional qualifying time of 11:20.59, less than a second off of automatically qualifying, two weeks ago at the Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet.

Snyder, a senior from Lewisburg, PA, will not only compete for Wake Forest in the DMR, but also the Mile Run. The school record holder in seven events ran an automatically qualifying time of 4:42.81 in the Mile Run last week at the Nike Fast Times Invitational and will try to earn All-American honors again this weekend for the second year in a row.

Day, a senior from Winston-Salem, NC, is also competing in the 3,000-Meter Run, in addition to the DMR. The ACC Champion in both the 3,000 and 5,000, Day broke the school record in the 3,000 with a provisionally qualifying time of 9:26.00 three weeks ago at the ACC Championships.

The complete list of declared athletes for the 2001 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, as well as the schedule of events and other information is available at www.ncaachampionships.com.