TRAFFORD, Pa. (pacathletics.org) - The 2025 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships, scheduled for Friday-Saturday, March 14-15 at the Golisano Training Center in Rochester, N.Y., will feature five student-athletes from Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) programs, including four women and one man competing for All-American status. The top 20 performers in each individual event are invited to the NCAA Championships.

Among the PAC women who qualified is Chatham University senior Aurielle Brunner (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle), who will compete in three events, including the pentathlon, long jump and triple jump. Also competing in multiple events is Westminster graduate student Breannda Davis (Streetsboro, Ohio/Streetsboro), who qualified in the pentathlon and high jump, while her Titan teammate, graduate student Madison Conley (New Castle, Pa./New Castle) is competing in the pole vault. Rounding out the qualifiers on the women's side is Grove City College senior Lydia Bennett (Bethel, Maine/Gould Academy), who will run in the one-mile event.

The lone male from the PAC who will compete in Rochester is Grove City junior Alex Mitchell (Hummelstown, Pa./Harrisburg Christian), a qualifier in the 400 meters.

Counting indoor and outdoor, this is Brunner's fourth trip overall to NCAA Championships and second for indoor. She also qualified a season ago in the long jump and earned All-American by placing eighth. This season, Brunner enters Championships ranked fourth in the field in the triple jump after a measurement of 12.31 meters (40-4.75) at the Muskingum Muskie Meet #1 on Jan. 18th. She is also tied for fourth in the long jump with a mark of 5.89m/19-4, which she hit at PAC Championships Feb. 27th.

Brunner, who earned Field MVP and Overall Track & Field MVP honors at PAC Championships, will also compete at NCAAs in the pentathlon. The Chatham senior scored 3,392 points at the Youngstown State Mid-Major Invitational Jan. 31st, which was good enough to rank 17th in the country.

Brunner's busy weekend begins Friday morning with the start of the pentathlon, while the long jump commences Friday at noon. The women's triple jump is scheduled for Saturday at 11 am.

Of her two events this weekend, Davis, who is appearing at Indoor Championships for the first time after qualifying for Outdoor Nationals last spring, is seeded higher in the high jump. Before she set a new PAC-record while winning the high jump at the conference meet, Davis recorded her best effort of the season Feb. 14th at the YSU Last Chance meet when she cleared a school-record height of 1.71m/5-7.25, which was tied for the sixth-best jump this year in Division III. In qualifying for the pentathlon, Davis squeezed in as the 20th competitor after she scored a school-record 3,369 points at Shenandoah's South Regional Final Qualifier March 7th.

Like Brunner, Davis will be competing both days at Championships, with the pentathlon running all day Friday and the high jump slated for 3 pm on Saturday.

Conley, a two-time All-American, was seventh at both the indoor and outdoor national championships last year. At the 2024 Indoor Championships, Conley entered as the 20th seed, but took home All-American honors when she cleared 3.77m (12-4.5). This season, she'll enter the championships tied as the No. 14 seed after winning the PAC title, vaulting a season-best 3.83m/12-6.75 on Feb. 27.

Conley's quest to be a three-time All-American and earn the 21st pole vault All-American honor in Westminster history will begin Friday at 11 am.

While this will be Bennett's first trip to NCAA Indoor Championships, it's her second appearance at a national meet this season, as she also competed in the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships in November. Bennett, who was the Track MVP at PAC Championships Feb. 27th, qualified for NCAAs this winter in the one-mile run after recording a time of 4:56.30 at the Nazareth Division III Elite Meet, which was run at the same Golisano Training Center hosting this weekend's Championships.

Prelims for the mile will go off Friday at 2:50 pm, with Bennett running in the second of two heats. The top 10, including first four in each heat and the next two best times, will advance to Saturday's final at 4:15 pm.

This marks the first NCAA Championship appearance for Mitchell, who like Bennett, was the Track MVP at PAC Championships late last month. He is the 10th seed in the 400 field after qualifying with a converted time of 48.38 seconds. Mitchell won the PAC title in the event at the conference meet by crossing in 47.61 seconds on YSU's 300-meter flat track.

The first of six preliminary heats in the 400 is scheduled for 3:05 pm. Mitchell will run in the fifth heat and need to place in the top eight overall to move on to the final, which will be Saturday at 4:25 pm.