TOWSON. Md. – Junior Hayley Horvath from the Towson University track and field team will compete at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships tomorrow, June 10 at the historic Hayworld Field in Eugene, Oregon.

She is one of four Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) student-athletes slated to compete.

Horvath finished fourth at the NCAA East Preliminary and was one of four competitors to clear 4.27m (14-00). Her vault tied the personal best and school record which she established at the CAA Championships. Entering the NCAA Championships Horvath is tied with 14 others with the top seed mark in the pole vault.

Horvath is the first Tiger to advance to the NCAA championships in the pole vault and the first Tiger to compete since Ksenia Safonova went in 2018 for the hammer throw.

Horvath is the 2021 ECAC and CAA pole vault champion.

Schedule of Events
Hayley Horvath                 Pole Vault            Thursday, June 10 – 7:00 p.m.

Fans can watch live via ESPN3 and all links will be made active the day of each event.

Last Time Out
Horvath, Lauren Coleman, Crystal Johnson and Kayla Thorpe competed at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East Preliminary rounds on May 27 in Jacksonville, Florida.

CAA Awards

• Lauren Coleman was named the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Field Athlete of the Week on March 17 for her performance at the UNCW Invitational. She was victorious in the shot put and had a third-place finish in the hammer throw. In the shot put, she recorded a conference leading mark of 15.52m (50-11).
• Hayley Horvath was named CAA Field Athlete of the Week on March 24 after setting a Towson program record in the pole vault at the Bob Davidson Memorial Invite. She vaulted 4.13m (13-6.5) which is the top mark in the conference this season by 0.31m.
• Crystal Johnson was named CAA Track Athlete of the Week on April 7 after placing first in the 100m dash with a time of 11.66, the fastest time in the CAA this spring. Additionally, it ranks 41st in the NCAA East Region and 75th in the country. Johnson also anchored Towson's 4x100m relay team that won and established the top mark in the CAA with a time of 46.27.
• For a second consecutive week, Johnson was named CAA Women's Track Athlete of the Week on April 14 after she sprinted her way to a Towson program record in the 100m dash with her time of 11.50 at the 2021 Aggie Invitational. The time ranks first in the CAA this season while sits 28th in the NCAA East Region and 48th in the Nation.
• Kayla Thorpe was named the CAA Women's Field Athlete of the Week on April 14. Thorpe won the javelin at the George Mason Spring Invitational launching the javelin 47.10m (154-6). The throw gives her the best mark in the CAA this spring by 1.85m while it ranks 34th in the NCAA East Region and 66th nationally. Thorpe also placed fourth at the meet in the shot put with a mark of 13.21m (43-4.25).
• Horvath won her second CAA Field Athlete of the Week on April 21 after rewriting the Towson record books in the pole vault finishing in second-place at the Virginia Challenge with a mark of 4.26m (13'11.75").

Tigers in the Community
The Towson University athletics department deems community service as one of its highest priorities to give back to the Greater Baltimore area.
Towson was on track to have its 8th consecutive year of over 10,000 hours of community service in 2019-20 before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all activity.  Towson finished with 7,527 hours last year, good for third in the NCAA Teamworks Helper Helper competition.
Towson ranked #1 nationally for community service and won the 2018 National Championship for Community Service through the Helper Helper NCAA Team Works Competition.  Towson also won the 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award from Susan G. Komen of Maryland.