March 6, 2001

Junior sprint-specialist Liz Grow (New Braunfels, Texas) will represent the University of Notre Dame women's track and field team at the 2001 NCAA Indoor Championship this weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. The preliminaries of the 400 meters are scheduled to begin at 5:10 p.m. on Friday, March 9. The finals are set for Saturday, March 10, at 6:45 p.m.

It will be Grow's second appearance in the NCAA indoor meet, as she also competed in the 400 meters in 1999. Grow enters the meet with the seventh-fastest time in her field, a 53.30 mark she ran at the Meyo Invitational (Feb. 3). That 53.30 time is a school record, breaking Grow's 54.05 that she posted at the 1999 Alex Wilson Invitational.

The Irish junior also competed in the 400 meters at the 2000 NCAA outdoor championship and finished second in the event at the 2001 BIG EAST Championship (Feb. 18) in Syracuse, NY.

2001 NCAA Indoor Championship 400-meter dash field:

1. Demetria Washington	South Carolina	52.06
2. Lesley Owusu		Nebraska	52.37
3. Mikele Barber	South Carolina	52.95
4. Faith Rein		Florida		53.22
5. Nadja Petersen	Tulane		53.26
6. Ronetta Smith	LSU		53.28
7. Liz Grow		Notre Dame	53.30
8. Petagay Gayle	Alabama		53.46
9. Tacita Bass		South Carolina	53.54
10. Myra Combs		LSU		53.56
11. Ngozi Iwu		Texas Tech	53.67
12. Edi Ntuen		North Carolina	53.67
13. Christine Amertil	SE Louisiana	53.76
14. Tia Tabb		Pittsburgh	53.83
15. Sasha Spencer	Georgetown	53.88
16. Allison Beckford	Rice		53.91