{"id":301562,"date":"2026-05-20T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301562\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:24:08","slug":"gray-competing-at-d-ii-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/301562\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Competing at D-II National Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Men&#8217;s Track &amp; Field |  05.20.2026<\/p>\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     EMPORIA, Kansas (May 20, 2026) \u2013 Lubbock Christian University junior jumper <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/mens-track-field\/roster\/maurice-gray\/5007\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5007\" target=\"_blank\">Maurice Gray<\/a> will compete at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field National Championships on Thursday at Francis G. Welch Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGray, a transfer from Sterling College in his first season as a Chaparral, is competing in the long jump at the national meet. He was also qualified in that event for the D-II Indoor National Championships, where he earned a spot on the podium by placing seventh.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe junior&#8217;s best jump this outdoor season came at the Jo Meaker Classic and Multi on April 9, when he recorded a leap of 7.57m to place fifth. It is the 11th-best jump in Division II this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn his most recent competition, Gray just missed a long jump medal at the Lone Star Conference Championships, taking fourth with a leap of 7.35 meters. He did medal in the triple jump, where his new personal best of 14.94 meters was just short of getting him a spot in the national meet.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGray will jump in flight two on Thursday. Finals for the long jump are scheduled for 2:30 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Track &amp; Field | 05.20.2026 &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; EMPORIA, Kansas (May 20, 2026) \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-301562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}