Four ISU athletes secured spots for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Cyclone track and field teams competed at the NCAA Midwest regional championships last weekend.

The regional meet marked the final opportunity for athletes to surpass qualifying standards for the Outdoor championships, which are being held June 10-12 in Fayetteville, Ark.

Freshman Betsy Saina, Iowa State’s highest finisher at the meet, held off Tulsa’s Alex Beckett for an NCAA qualifying second-place finish.

Iowa State’s steeplechase record holder, Hillary Bor, took third in the event, outrunning Nebraska’s Brian Parr by only four hundredths of a second.

Thrower Luke Pinkelman also qualified for the Cyclones in the shot put, while a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles was fast enough to give junior Jenna Caffrey a spot at the championship meet.

Having already met qualifying standards in the 10,000-meter race, ISU distance runners Lisa Koll and Grace Kemmey were held from the meet. Koll, who won her third-consecutive 10,000-meter Big 12 title at the conference championship meet two weeks ago, is the defending NCAA champion in the event.