Simon Fraser University 800-metre runners met the standard and then some for the NCAA Division II national championships.
Senior Helen Crofts beat her own Div.II-leading mark in the metric half-mile by two seconds to automatically qualify for the nationals indoor track and field championships with a time of 2: 08.52.
Crofts also helped post the top Div. II team time in the women's distance medley relay with Chantel Desch, Michaela Kane and Lindsay Butterworth, finishing fifth overall at the University of Washington invitational indoor meet in Seattle on Jan. 26.
Four other SFU runners posted excellent provisional qualifying results and are ranked in the top 15.
Kane is ranked sixth following her time of 2: 13.29. Sarah Sawatzky is in 12th place with a time of 2: 14.15 and freshman Kansas Mackenzie is ranked 14th with a 2: 14.96 clocking.
First-year Kayla Lennea garnered a Great Northwest conference standard in the same 800m race with a time of 2: 18.68.
Desch also met the provisional national standard in the 400m with a top conference time of 57.67.
Hurdler Andrea Abrams posted the fourth best time in the conference in the 60m event with a 9.15 finish.
SFU field athletes Mercedes Rhode and Charlotte Crombeen in long jump and Jade Richardson in the shot put also made conference standards in their events.
On the men's side, middle distance runners Cameron Proceviat, Adam Reid and James Young qualified at their respective distances.
Keir Forster posted the second-fastest 3,000m time with a personal-best 8: 32.49 at the meet.
Luca Molinari made the Great Northwest standard in the weight throw.
The men's distance relay team of Forster, Reid, Young and Stuart Ellenwood have the second-best time in the conference to date. Ellenwood also qualified in the individual 400m in a time of 50.15.
The Clan team will be back in action at the Harry Jerome indoor meet in Richmond on Saturday.
