Sophomore Brady Palen was selected for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship that will be hosted by the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 10-11.

This is the seventh-straight year that Wichita State will have a student athlete at the event. 

Palen is  the seventh seed in the men’s high jump.with a 2.22 meter mark. This feat ties the school record that was set by Mark Todd in 1985. Nationally, he is tied with sophomore Kennedy Sauder from Liberty University.

In-conference rival junior Romaine Beckford from the University of South Florida sits at the three seed with a 2.26m mark.

The men’s high jump contest will begin March 11 at 1 p.m. The event will be livestreamed on ESPN+ and will be rerun on ESPNU at 5 p.m. on March 12 and at 6 p.m. on March 13.