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Greene, Wiltrout Punch Tickets To NCAA Championships

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — North Carolina's Nicole Greene and Madison Wiltrout punched their tickets to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships with top-12 finishes at the NCAA East Preliminary Round on the campus of the University of North Florida at Hodges Stadium on Thursday. Greene, a redshirt junior from Ponte Vedra, Fla., advanced to her first-ever outdoor national championships with a height of 5-10 3/4 (1.80 meters) in the women's high jump while Wiltrout, a redshirt freshman from Connellsville, Pa., secured her first bid to the NCAA championship stage with a fifth-place mark of 169-7 (51.