San Antonio - Nine Trinity Tigers have qualified for the NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships, to be held May 24-26 at La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Representing the Tiger women's team are Nkolika Nweke, Molly McCullough, and Britney Sullivan. Matt Love and Cody Hall in represent the men's team in individual events, along with Christopher Stewart, Christian Matta, Raphael Martin, and Blair Walker in a relay.

The nine Trinity entrants set a school record for the largest number of competitors at the Division III Championships. Six student-athletes qualified last year and in 2009.

Sullivan will compete in two women's events, the long jump and triple jump. She is seeded fifth in the triple jump at 12.04 meters and 22nd in the long jump with a mark of 5.71 meters. McCullough is sixth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, posting a time of 10:41.94. Nweke enters the 100 meters in the 14th slot at 12.08 seconds.

The 2018 event will mark the fourth consecutive NCAA Outdoor Championships for Sullivan. She placed 12th in last year's triple jump, came in at #10 in 2016, and was 19th in 2015. Sullivan also finished 14th at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships and was 13th in 2016.

McCullough placed 15th in last season's 3,000-meter steeplechase, missing qualifying for the finals by just over a second. She became Trinity's third cross country All-American last fall with a 38th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championships. Nweke turned in a 16th-place performance at last year's NCAA Outdoors 100 meters event.

Love is seeded sixth in the men's discus with a mark of 52.60 meters, and Hall is 15th in the 110-meter hurdles, posting a time of 14.51 seconds. The 4x100-meter relay team of Stewart, Matta, Martin, and Walker stands at #16, with a qualifying time of 41.39 seconds.

Hall earned All-America Outdoor honors in last year's 110-meter hurdles with a fourth-place finish. Earlier, Hall became an All-American in the Indoor 60 meters, placing as runner-up. Love was 11th in last year's discus event and finished 14th in 2016.

The Tigers are led by sixth-year Head Coach Marcus Whitehead. With this year's qualifiers, Whitehead can claim 13 student-athletes competing in the Outdoor Championships.