Middlebury College announces Rubio and Women’s DMR To Compete At NCAA Championship

From 3/5/2023 post.

Emily Rubio and the women's distance medley relay (DMR) team of Audrey Grimes, Michelle Louie, Ciara Dale and Kate Kenny will travel to the Birmingham Crossplex in Birmingham, Alabama to represent Middlebury at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championship on March 10-11.

Rubio currently holds the sixth best score in the pentathlon this season, with a total of 3,464 points set at the Middlebury Winter Classic. She is the only first-year who will compete in the pentathlon at the NCAA Championships. Rubio has already broken the Middlebury pentathlon school record on two occasions this season. The last Panther to reach the NCAA Championship for the pentathlon was Maddie Provonost in 2017.

The Middlebury DMR ranks seventh in the nation. The team ran a time of 11:50.58 at the Tufts National Qualifying Meet, which was nearly 10 seconds better than their previous top time to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Last year, Louie was part of the Middlebury DMR team that earned All-American honors, placing fourth. The Panthers most recently won back-to-back titles in the DMR in 2011 and 2012.

The pentathlon will take place on Friday from 11:20 a.m. to 5:20 p.m EST, while the DMR begins at 7:25 p.m EST.

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