SAN ANTONIO — Conference USA champions Ingeborg Gruenwald and Jemuel Miller will represent UTSA at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships this Friday-Saturday, March 11-12, in Birmingham, Ala.
Gruenwald will compete in the women's long jump, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Birmingham CrossPlex, while Miller will participate in the men's triple jump at 3:45 p.m. Saturday.
Gruenwald captured her second straight Conference USA Indoor crown in the long jump with a school-record leap of 6.42 meters (21-0.75) last month at Birmingham CrossPlex. That mark bettered her previous UTSA standard of 6.35m (20-10) established in winning the Charlie Thomas Invitational on Feb. 4 in College Station. The Salzburg, Austria, native is seeded 12th in the field of 16 this week and is in line to collect her first career All-America certificate.
Meanwhile, Miller claimed gold in the triple jump at the C-USA Indoor on Feb. 20 with a school-record mark of 16.09m (52-9.5), which broke Devon Bond's 12-year-old program standard and placed him 17th in the nation, just outside the NCAA Indoor field. However, a scratch from another qualifier on Sunday pushed him into the meet, where he will be seeded 16th. The freshman from Barbados is undefeated in the event this season and will be guaranteed his first All-America award this weekend.
UTSA has seen 13 women combine to collect 25 All-America honors, including six indoor certificates, in its history. Danielle Spence was the last accomplish the feat indoors, placing 13th in the triple jump in 2019 for second-team accolades, while Maia Campbell earned honorable mention recognition with a 22nd-place showing in the shot put at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
The Roadrunners boast 18 All-Americans and 37 certificates on the men's side, including 10 indoor awards. The last All-America accolade for UTSA came from Gary Haasbroek in 2020 when the NCAA Indoor meet was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic right before competition began, allowing all athletes who qualified to be named an All-American. Haasbroek, who finished 10th in the heptathlon for second-team honors in 2019, and Luca Chatham, an honorable mention in the 800 meters after placing 18th at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor, were the last UTSA men to compete at a national meet.
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