McWilliams Returns To Boston For USA Indoor National Championships
STARKVILLE, Miss. ?€” Former Mississippi State University track and field standout Tiffany McWilliams will compete in the 1500-meter run at the United States Indoor Track and Field National Championships on Sat. afternoon, Feb. 26, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College in Boston. ESPN will air the event Sunday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m. CT.
"This will be Tiffany's first national championship, and she's looking forward to it," said MSU head coach Al Schmidt, who has continued to train McWilliams throughout her professional career. "Hopefully this will begin a long series of championships for her."
According to the USATF, the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships is the world's oldest indoor track championship, with the first meet being held in 1888 in New York and is the concluding event of Visa Championship Series.
Previously this season, McWilliams has posted two fourth place finishes and a fifth place finish.At the Boston Indoor Games, she finished the 800-meter run in 2 minutes, 5.68 seconds.The following week at the Millrose Games in New York City, McWilliams competed in the mile run (4:37.16).Two weeks ago, McWilliams finished fifth in the 800 at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. (2:04.70).
In three seasons at State, McWilliams captured three NCAA individual titles: two in the outdoor 800- meter run (2003 & 2004) and the indoor mile (2004). The four-time all-American and seven-time Southeastern Conference champion was named the 2004 SEC Female Runner of the Year. For her efforts in the classroom, she was named to the 2004 SEC Academic Honor Roll and 2003 National Collegiate Division I Track Coaches Association all-Academic Team.