COLLEGE STATION, Texas (3/9/18) – Arkansas State senior sprinter Jaylen Bacon qualified for the 60-meter dash final while senior thrower Itamar Levi claimed Second Team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships Friday.
Bacon, running in the second of the two heats, clocked a time of 6.65 seconds to advance. He placed fourth in the heat and advanced based on his time. Seeded sixth before competition, Bacon enters the final ranked eighth among those qualifiers. The 60-meter dash final is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
“Jaylen had to deal with a reset and a false start in the blocks tonight and wasn’t able to handle that as well as we had hoped,” said A-State head coach Jim Patchell.