Three Tar Heels Headed For NCAA Indoor Championships

Three Tar Heels are headed to the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, set for March 11-12 in Birmingham, Ala. Anna Keefer, Daniel McArthur and Jill Shippee, all graduate students who are school record holders, will compete at the Birmingham CrossPlex.

Keefer qualified to compete in both the long jump and the 200 meters. She competed in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2021 as well, earning second-team All-America honors with a 10^th place finish.

McArthur will compete in the shot put, an event in which he is a three-time All-America honoree. He was fourth in 2019 – competing in Birmingham – and fourth again in 2021. He also received All-America honors in 2020, when the championship was canceled.

Shippee will compete in the weight throw. She earned All-America honors in the most recent NCAA Outdoor Championships after taking third in the hammer throw.

All three set school records at the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Championships last weekend. Keefer's long jump distance of 21-6 (6.55m) earned her gold and was the best in school history. McArthur earned shot put gold with a school-record throw of 70-7 (21.51m). Shippee broke her own school record in the weight throw and placed third with a distance of 72-8.5 (21.16m).

For a full list of NCAA qualifiers, click here for women and here for men.

University of North Carolina Athletics

Players Mentioned

Anna Keefer

Daniel McArthur

Jill Shippee

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