FROSTBURG, Md. - Frostburg State University has qualified three student-athletes, two females and one male, for the 2009 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio from Thursday, May 21 through Saturday, May 23. 

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Senior Sumer Rohrs (Frostburg, Md./Forest) is poised to add to her four National Championships as she will compete in two events this weekend, the 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles. She is currently tied for second all-time in school history with those four championships and with two more this weekend, will hold the most national titles in school history.

Rohrs currently holds the nation's second fastest time in the 100-hurdles (14.04) after winning the event this past weekend at the ECAC Championships. A three-time Indoor National Champion in the 55-meter hurdles, Rohrs will try and defend her one and only 100-meter hurdle national title after winning the event last season at the outdoor championships with a time of 13.68.

Rohrs, the 2009 Most Outstanding Female Performer at the ECAC Championships, will also try for her first NCAA Championship in the 400-meter hurdles after garnering All-American honors last spring after capturing second place (60.71) in the event at the outdoor championships. This year, Rohrs holds the top time in the event after winning an ECAC Championship this past weekend with a time of 60.97.

However, Rohrs holds an edge in both events over the rest of the field that will be competing this weekend. Earlier this spring at the Don Frail Invitational at Marietta College, Rohrs set the Don Drumm Stadium record in both hurdles events after running a 14.41 in the 100 and a 1:01.91 in the 400 hurdles. Overall, she has four victories in four events in two trips to Marietta College.

Senior Brian Leiter (New Windsor, Md./Francis Scott Key) will also compete in two events; the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs. He advanced to the finals in both events at last year's outdoor championships, winning All-American honors in the 800, after taking fifth in 1:52.48.

Despite not earning All-American honors in the 1,500 last spring, Leiter currently holds the country's fastest time in the event with a school record 3:48.47. He also currently holds the fifth fastest time in the 800-meter run this season after setting an ECAC Championship and FSU school record with a 1:50.50 this past weekend.

Joining those two at the NCAA Championships for the first time will be sophomore Emily Furr (Damascus, Md./Poolesville), competing in the triple jump and high jump. Furr is one of just three student-athletes this spring to automatically qualify for the NCAA's in the triple jump, slipping into the top three with a distance of 12.00 meters. She will also compete in the high jump after qualifying with a height of 1.65 meters.