Of the eight members of the Eastern track and field team that competed at the NCAA Last Chance meets this weekend, the Panthers will have definitely one, but maybe two competitors heading to the NCAA Indoor Championship next weekend in Nampa, Idaho.

Already punching her ticket is red-shirt sophomore Jade Riebold. Riebold competed at the NCAA Last Chance Meet at both North Central and at Notre Dame.

At the North Central Last Chance, Riebold vaulted 13-feet, 11-inches, a mark that smashes her previous Eastern school record by five inches.

Then at the Notre Dame Last Chance, she vaulted 13-feet, 5-inches. Riebold, now the No. 12 competitor in the nation for the women’s pole vault event, qualifies for the NCAA Indoor Championship next weekend.

In order to qualify, one must either meet the NCAA’s automatic qualifier requirements for the respective event or be in the nation’s top sixteen.

Whether or not red-shirt senior Zye Boey will compete in the NCAA Indoor Championship is still unclear. Boey, an All-American and NCAA Indoor Championship qualifier last season, entered the event ranked as the No. 16 200-meter dash runner in the country.

When Boey ran the 200-meter dash, a malfunction with the event’s computer system caused Boey’s time to not be recorded.

“I guess they had a computer-timing malfunction during my race,” Boey said. “I knew it was going to be my fastest race of the season and automatically put me in the NCAAs, but no time was recorded and I couldn’t believe that happened.”

Boey said he felt like he ran at least a time of 20.8 or 20.9 seconds, a time which would have moved him higher up the national rankings.

Boey currently stands as the No. 17 runner in the country after this past weekend; one spot out of competing at the national meet.

“Right now, I’m one spot out, but with people qualifying in several events, there should be athletes not declaring for the 200, which will put me in, so we’ll see,” he said. “The deadline for declarations (is March 5), so we should find out either (Monday night) or Tuesday morning.”

Boey said that the malfunction in time is just going to be something he has to live with.

“It sucks to go out like that your senior season, but it’s just life,” he said. “It wasn’t anyone’s fault. The computer just failed, so I’ll just have to live with that.”

Dominic Renzetti can be reached at 581-7942 or [email protected].