{"id":316333,"date":"2026-05-31T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316333\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:10:12","slug":"unt-duo-qualifies-for-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316333\/","title":{"rendered":"UNT Duo Qualifies For NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2014 UNT junior <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/aariyana-williams\/7563\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7563\" target=\"_blank\">Aariyana Williams<\/a> and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/oluwatimilehim-williams\/7589\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7589\" target=\"_blank\">Oluwatimilehim Williams<\/a> led a record-tying Mean Green contingency of 19 student-athletes at the NCAA West Preliminary over the past four days by advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in their respective events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/aariyana-williams\/7563\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7563\" target=\"_blank\">Aariyana Williams<\/a> ran a new personal best in the 400 meters on Saturday evening to finish 11th and finish inside the qualifying threshold of the top 12 while breaking her own program record with a 51.90. Olu Williams qualified for nationals in the discus on Friday night with a throw of 57.50 to finish eighth and get through to Eugene.<\/p>\n<p>The national championships will be contested at Hayward Field in Eugene, on June 10-13. It will mark the first time UNT has sent anyone to the NCAA Championships since 2023, when the Mean Green sent three student-athletes. The top finisher then was KeAyla Dove, who finished 10th in women&#8217;s shot put.<\/p>\n<p>The Mean Green had a couple of close calls who just narrowly missed out on qualifying for the national meet, as seniors <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/hendrick-hundl\/7467\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7467\" target=\"_blank\">Hendrick Hundl<\/a> (110 hurdles) and <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/tyler-moore\/7591\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7591\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Moore<\/a> (400 hurdles) finished 15th and 14th, respectively, while Moore clocked a new personal best of 50.25 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2014 UNT junior Aariyana Williams and sophomore Oluwatimilehim Williams led a record-tying Mean Green contingency of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-316333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316333","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=316333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}