TicketsCINCINNATI – University of Cincinnati high jumper Loretta Blaut (Cincinnati, Ohio/Seton) will compete Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama.
The women's high jump competition gets underway at 2 p.m. ET Saturday with a field of 16 competitors. ESPN3 will stream the championships live starting at 5 p.m. ET Saturday. A re-air of the championship will take place starting at 10 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN2 and again Monday starting at 10 p.m. ET on ESPNU.
Blaut is one of 18 American Athletic Conference student-athletes competing in Birmingham this weekend. The AAC held its indoor championship at the same facility on Feb. 22-23, 2019.
The senior won her third-straight American high jump indoor title and second-straight AAC Indoor Field Most Outstanding Performance Award. She cleared 1.82m on her second attempt to grab the gold.
The national runner-up indoors and out last year, Blaut capped her conference career by winning each of the last five high jump titles, which includes the past two outdoor crowns as well. All told, the AAC and school's indoor and outdoor record holder in the event is now the second woman to post a three-peat in the indoor high jump in the American after former teammate Erika Hurd won the first three titles, meaning only Cincinnati has ever won the women's high jump since the league began in time for the 2014 championship seasons.
Blaut, a five-time United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches All-America honoree, has maintained championship form this season, going undefeated against collegiate competition while winning five of the six events she has entered and posting one of the top marks in the nation. Her winning jump of 1.87m at the Charlie Thomas Invitational in February tied for the top clearance in the NCAA this indoor season along with Andrea Stapleton-Johnson from BYU.
BLAUT 2019 MEET-BY-MEET
12/7/18: Hoosier Open (1.82m/1st)
1/11/19: Jim Green Invitational (1.81m/2nd*)
1/19/19: Gladstein Invitational (1.72m/1st)
2/2/19: Charlie Thomas Invitational (1.87m/1st)
2/9/19: Music City Challenge (1.76m/1st)
2/23/19: American Athletic Conference Championship (1.82m/1st)
*- Top collegiate finisher
The women's high jump competition gets underway at 2 p.m. ET Saturday with a field of 16 competitors. ESPN3 will stream the championships live starting at 5 p.m. ET Saturday. A re-air of the championship will take place starting at 10 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN2 and again Monday starting at 10 p.m. ET on ESPNU.
Blaut is one of 18 American Athletic Conference student-athletes competing in Birmingham this weekend. The AAC held its indoor championship at the same facility on Feb. 22-23, 2019.
The senior won her third-straight American high jump indoor title and second-straight AAC Indoor Field Most Outstanding Performance Award. She cleared 1.82m on her second attempt to grab the gold.
The national runner-up indoors and out last year, Blaut capped her conference career by winning each of the last five high jump titles, which includes the past two outdoor crowns as well. All told, the AAC and school's indoor and outdoor record holder in the event is now the second woman to post a three-peat in the indoor high jump in the American after former teammate Erika Hurd won the first three titles, meaning only Cincinnati has ever won the women's high jump since the league began in time for the 2014 championship seasons.
Blaut, a five-time United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches All-America honoree, has maintained championship form this season, going undefeated against collegiate competition while winning five of the six events she has entered and posting one of the top marks in the nation. Her winning jump of 1.87m at the Charlie Thomas Invitational in February tied for the top clearance in the NCAA this indoor season along with Andrea Stapleton-Johnson from BYU.
BLAUT 2019 MEET-BY-MEET
12/7/18: Hoosier Open (1.82m/1st)
1/11/19: Jim Green Invitational (1.81m/2nd*)
1/19/19: Gladstein Invitational (1.72m/1st)
2/2/19: Charlie Thomas Invitational (1.87m/1st)
2/9/19: Music City Challenge (1.76m/1st)
2/23/19: American Athletic Conference Championship (1.82m/1st)
*- Top collegiate finisher