LAWRENCE, Kan.— The Kansas men’s and women’s track & field teams will be traveling Eugene, Oregon this week for the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Jayhawks will have a total of 11 athletes in action at this week’s meet, who will compete against the nation’s best at historic Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon, June 10-13.

Today, the Jayhawks are at Oregon’s Hayward Field, a venue Kansas will be competing in for the sixth-straight year and is slated to host each of the next six NCAA Outdoor Championship meets.
    
The Kansas women checked in at No. 17 in the latest NCAA rankings released last week. That marks the 50th time in the last 55 rankings, dating back to 2010, that the Kansas women find themselves in the top-25 of the USTFCCCA’s outdoor national rankings.
    
A top-eight finish by junior Sydney Conley in the long jump this week would mark the sixth time in eight years a KU female has garnered First Team All-America honors in the event.
    
Senior Michael Stigler has posted the three fastest 400-meter hurdle times by a collegian this year, which includes his school record in the event at the Texas Relays on March 27. His time of 48.44 is the fastest time by a collegian in four years.
    
Stigler has failed to claim first in only one 400-meter hurdle race this season and has won 20 of 25 400-meter hurdle races dating back to the start of the 2014 outdoor season.
    
Junior Lindsay Vollmer enters this year’s NCAA Championship heptathlon two years removed from claiming the national title in the event. A win this week would make her the eighth woman in NCAA history to win multiple heptathlon titles.
    
Now in his 15th year as Kansas’ head coach, Stanley Redwine is seeing an average of nearly 10 athletes per season earn First Team All-America distinctions.

KU Women at NCAA Championships:

Kansas is just two years removed from its 2013 NCAA Championship, which was the first in the women’s program’s history and added to a successful track record at the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the KU women. The program has tallied eight top-25 finishes at the national meet in its 40-year history, including four in the last seven years.
 
The KU women have seen 57 of its athletes achieve All-America status at the NCAA meet, including 29 first-team AAs in the last three seasons. Senior Lindsay Vollmer was the first to claim an individual national title, winning the heptathlon title in 2013. The Jayhawks have had several close to individual outdoor titles, boasting six who have notched runner-up finishes in their respective events at the National Championships.
 
KU Men at NCAA Championships:

Not many collegiate programs have seen more success at the national championships than Kansas has over its 114 years in existence. The Jayhawk men have captured three NCAA Outdoor titles (1959, 1960 and 1970) and have finished in the top 10 in the team standings on 18 occasions, including a seventh-place finish in 2010.
 
Kansas men have walked away with individual NCAA outdoor titles 35 times with the most recent being Jordan Scott in the 2010 pole vault. A total of 140 outdoor All-Americans have donned the Crimson and Blue, with 27 of those coming under head coach Stanley Redwine.