(Ann Arbor, MI) - The Women's Outdoor Track and Field team is sending two athletes to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Championship this weekend as Cardinal's Lena Korte and Julia Hirt will be competing in the Shot Put and Discus event later this week. 

KORTE'S NUMBERS

As the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) Champion, Korte has once again reset the program record books at nearly every meet this spring. She had her best throw of the season when she placed first at the WHAC Championship in early May.

Korte first qualified for the NAIA National Championship when she hit a B standard at the Golden Grizzly Invitational on April 10 as she threw 13.21 meters. She would then hit the A standard with a throw of 13.89 meters at the WHAC Championships on May 6. 

HIRT'S NUMBERS

Hirt was the WHAC runner-up for the discus event for the second straight year with her throw of 41.85 meters. She too owns the school record in the event that she would set at the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Championships. 

She hit the NAIA B Standard at the NCCAA Championships with her final throw of the event, which would also make her the NCCAA National Champion. She had a throw of 43.47 meters to earn the standard. 

THE REST OF THE FIELD

Korte enters the meet with the 10th-best throw in the country with her throw of 13.89 meters. The leader of the group, Maggie Ledbetter from Eastern Oregon, sits with a throw of 14.87 meters. 

Hirt enters the event sitting with the 25th-best throw in the nation with her top throw of 43.47 meters. Princess Kara from Indiana Wesleyan holds the top throw of the season at 55.31 meters. 

In order to qualify for an All-American spot you would have to finish within the top-8 of the event. 

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