Three Loyola athletes qualify for Indoor Track and Field National Championships

NEW ORLEANS – The Loyola Wolf Pack will have three student-athletes competing at the NAIA Indoor Championships in Brookings, South Dakota, this week. Starting Friday, March 1, Marcus Brown, Jordyn Minor, and Eleanor Sherman will represent the Maroon and Gold at the National Championships, and the first-year Loyola athletes will compete in a total of three events. 
 

Representing the Wolf Pack men, Marcus Brown qualified for the 600-meter run. Minor will represent the Loyola women in the 60-meter dash, and both Minor and Sherman will compete in the long jump.
 

Brown qualified for the Championships with his performance in the 600-meter run. At Joe Brown Park, the senior finished with a time of 1:21.39 which ranks 39th in the nation among NAIA athletes. In his first year with the Wolf Pack, Brown broke both his personal record and school record in the 600-meter run at the Mardi Gras Indoor Classic. He also holds the top three times in program history in the 600-meter run. The preliminary round of the 600-meter race is set for Friday at 2:05 p.m.
 

Minor had a record-breaking first year in her first season as a member of the Wolf Pack. At the SSAC Championships, Minor broke the program record in the 60-meter dash, earning a time of 7.66 for a fourth-place finish. Her performance in the race is tied for the 27th-best performance in the nation among NAIA qualifiers. After six meets as a Loyola athlete, Minor holds each of the Top 5 times in program history in the 60-meter dash, each breaking the previous Loyola record set in 2010. 
 

In the long jump, the Baton Rouge native qualified for the NAIA National Championships at the Bleu Devils Indoor Track Classic. Minor's jump of 5.92 meters ranks second among all national qualifiers for the 2024 season, passing the A standard qualifying mark by 0.30 meters. Minor holds the Top 2 marks in the Loyola record book in the long jump with her second-best performance of 5.71 meters, also above the qualifying mark.
 

Sherman qualified for the National Championships in her freshman season with Loyola. Sherman's long jump of 5.52 meters is tied for the 29th-best in the nation among NAIA qualifiers. Her long jump performance of 5.52 meters, set at the New Orleans Triangular Winter Classic, is the fourth-best in program history. The Fort Collins, Colorado native also has the fifth-best spot in the record book with her mark of 5.36 meters in the long jump. 
 

Minor and Sherman will compete in the long jump at 1 p.m. on Friday, while Minor will also race in the 60-meter dash prelims at 2:25 p.m. that same day. 
 

On March 15 and 16, the Wolf Pack will begin the outdoor track and field season in Mobile, Ala. at the South Alabama Invitational.
 

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