At stake this weekend is the national championships, and female track and field athletes from Division I schools will travel to the University of Oklahoma in Norman for the regional meet, hoping to move on.

The ISU women’s track and field team is sending Leigh Wagner and Agata Kosuda, two junior jumpers, to the meet at John Jacobs Field.

Wagner said she is happy to have qualified for the regional meet.

“It is nice to see all of the hard work pay off,” she said.

Jumps coach Ron McEachran believes Wagner is ready.

“She’s been looking good in practice,” McEachran said. “I think Leigh is ready to have a personal record.”

McEachran said Wagner has worked harder lately because she has been jumping the same height in recent meets.

“In high jumping, you can kind of get in a rut and always be jumping at the same height,” he said. “She has been working at different heights to get prepared for the meet.”

Wagner said jumping at the same height has been difficult.

“I almost feel like I have plateaued,” she said. “Practices have been going well though.”

Wagner said this season has been good for her in many different respects. She set a new personal record this season and said that was something she hadn’t done since high school.

Wagner said it is a “definite possibility” that she will qualify for the national meet, and that is her overall goal for this season.

McEachran says Kosuda has a chance to do well despite having competed in few meets this season.

“She has really only had two meets this season — the Drake Relays and the Big 12 Conference meet,” McEachran said.

Kosuda ranks fourth nationally in the triple jump and McEachran said she could qualify for the national meet.

“She is in the national mix,” he said. “Normally, 13 meters gets you into the national meet, and she has been over that already this season.”

McEachran added Kosuda could finish in the top eight at the national meet, which would make her an All-American.

“She will have to jump well, but if she jumps anywhere near what she has been jumping, she will qualify for the national meet,” McEachran said.

Kosuda could not be reached for comment.