INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Kenna Curry (weight throw) and Jadyn Keeler (5,000 meters) from the North Dakota track and field team earned bids to the NCAA Indoor Championships, the NCAA announced on Tuesday night. The women's weight throw will take place on Friday, March 14 at 1:15 pm. (CT), while the women's 5,000 meters will be at 3:42 p.m. (CT) that same day at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.

By both athletes qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Championships, it marks just the second time in school history and first time since 2019 that the Fighting Hawks have a pair of student-athletes qualifying for the indoor national meet in UND's Division I history. In 2019, both Molli Detloff and Kyley Foster qualified for the national meet. Detloff finished 11th in the weight throw with a toss of 67-9 1/2 (20.66m) and Foster was 10th in the pole vault with a height of 13-7 3/4 (4.16m) at that meet.

Curry remains just the third student-athlete in UND's Division I history to qualify for the meet, also making nationals in the weight throw last season, where she finished 14th with a toss of 67-3 1/2 (20.51m). Her throw of 75-0 1/2 (22.87m) at the East Coast Invitational at the beginning of February qualified her for the National Championships. In Virginia Beach, Curry's throw won the weight throw and shattered the school record mark of 72-1 3/4 (21.99m), set by Detloff at the 2019 Summit League Indoor Championships.

Keeler became the fourth Fighting Hawk to qualify for NCAA Championships in UND's Division I history and the first student-athlete to qualify for a track event. She qualified for the meet with a time of 15:28.29 in the 5,000 meters in Boston this February. She was the fifth collegiate runner to cross the finish line at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational and completely obliterated her previous school record time of 15:57.19, which she set on that same track at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener this past December.

Curry and Keeler qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships by having one of the top-16 marks remaining nationally at the end of the regular season. Curry has the No. 6 throw in the country heading into nationals and is seeded No. 6, while Keeler has the No. 17 time nationally and is seeded No. 16.