March 10, 2015

BLUFFTON, Ohio - Sophomore TREY EVERETT (Sidney) has qualified for the NCAA Indoor National Track & Field Championship meet  to be held March 13-14 at the JDL Fast Track purpose-built facility in Winston-Salem, NC. It is the first time in Bluffton indoor track and field history that an athlete has achieved this distinction. It is also Everett's first season of indoor track and field at the collegiate level after playing basketball as a freshman.

Everett's high jump clearance of 6-11 enters the competition as the fourth-best jump in the nation. It is just 2.5 inches shy (7-1.5) of the highest Division III jump of the year put up by Dominique Neloms from Wisconsin La Crosse.

Qualifying for nationals has added to Everett's already-impressive resume for 2015. A two-time HCAC Field Athlete of the Week, Everett won the All-Ohio high jump title with a meet record on the same day he broke Bluffton's school record with a long jump of 23-3.5. He followed that up with victories in both jumps at the Heartland Conference championships, establishing new HCAC meet records in the process. For his efforts at Rose-Hulman, Everett was named the HCAC Field Athlete of the Year!

Should Everett finish among the top eight competitors in the competition, he would earn All-America status. Bluffton's last All-American athlete was current pole vault coach, Clint Dillon, from the 2005 outdoor championship. Everett narrowly missed qualification in a second event, long jump, where a scant one-half inch lies between him (23-3.5) and the final qualifier (23-4).

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