Track & Field | 2/28/2012 3:37:00 PM

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MONMOUTH, Ore. - Ashley Potter, Janelle Everetts and Ryan Hansen have all punch their tickets to compete in the 2012 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in Mankato, Minn., on Mar. 9-10.

Potter will be competing in the triple jump at the NCAA indoor championships for the first time in her career after competing in the outdoor championships each of the past two seasons. The senior out of Springfield, Ore. (Thurston HS) earned her place at the National meet by leaping 39-7 (12.06m) at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships. She will enter the meet as the seventh seed. Her triple jump mark set the Western Oregon school record and was the second longest leap in the history of the GNAC.

Everetts will also enter the National meet as the number seven seed. Everetts secured her place in the Division II championships by running a career-best time of 2:11.78 in the 800m at the Seattle Pacific Last Chance Meet on Saturday, Feb. 25. This will be the first appearance at Nationals for the senior from Salem, Ore. (McKay HS). Her NCAA provisional qualifying mark was also the second fastest mark in Western Oregon history and 10th in GNAC history.

Hansen will also be competing in the 800m at Nationals. Last week, he ran the second fastest time in the history of the GNAC and Western Oregon University with a time of 1:51.55 in the 800m. Hansen's converted time of 1:51.65 was just .16 seconds off the eight-year old GNAC record set by Paul Mach of Seattle Pacific in 2004.  That time earned him the 10th seed in his first-ever national meet.