Five Trojans Punch Their Ticket to Bloomington for NCAA East Preliminaries

TROY, Ala.- The Troy track and field team has five Trojans heading to Bloomington, Indiana, for the NCAA East Preliminaries from May 25-28, the NCAA announced Thursday afternoon.

Edita Sklenska is the only Trojan representing the women's team in the 800-meter run. The junior is fresh off a gold-medal performance in the Sun Belt Championships that resulted in her being the only Trojan named to the All-Sun Belt first team. Her time of 2:05.01, set at the Crimson Tide Invitational, put her 22^nd in the region.

Three throwers carry the NCAA appearances on the men's side in Cole Stewart, Marek Taskar and Javon Osbourne. Stewart (31^st) and Taskar (44^th) ranked in the top-48 for the east region in the javelin throw event. At the SBC Championship, Cole Stewart took home the silver medal after hitting a personal record of 67.36-meters. Taskar followed suit at the league championships, coming in fourth at 65.10-meters.

Osbourne represents the Trojans in the discus event after throwing a 55.64-meter throw on April 16 at the War Eagle Invitational. The freshman has a team-high eight podium finishes, including five in discus, with three gold medals.

Julian Martin-Rogers punched his ticket at the SBC championship preliminaries for the 110-meter hurdles event. The junior topped off at 13.94 to rank 36^th in the East region.

Troy NCAA East Preliminary Qualifiers
Men
Cole Stewart – Javelin
Marek Taskar – Javelin
Javon Osbourne – Discus
Julian Martin-Rogers – 110-meter hurdles

Women
Edita Sklenska – 800-meters

Troy University Athletics

Five Trojans Punch Their Ticket to Bloomington for NCAA East Preliminaries

Players Mentioned

Julian Martin-Rogers

Javon Osbourne

Edita Sklenska

Cole Stewart

Marek Taskar

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