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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Samford track and field standouts Tray Oates and Keyth Fightmaster will be competing in the 2018 USA Track & Field (USATF) Indoor Championships on Saturday as the top athletes in the sport gather at the Albuquerque Convention Center to vie for a spot on Team USATF for the Indoor World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
 
Oates, the reigning Southern Conference Indoor Field Athlete of the Week and of the Month, will be competing in the pole vault on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. (CT).
 
Recently, Oates cleared a height of 5.51 meters (18 feet, 1 inch) to set a meet record at the Samford Open. The senior from Acworth, Georgia, also upped his SoCon-leading mark, which now stands more than half a meter higher than that of second-place teammate Gavin Gautreau. 
 
Oates will face some stiff competition Saturday. Rio Olympics bronze medalist and 2017 World Champion Sam Kendricks from Oxford, Mississippi, enters with the eighth highest vault in the world this year.
 
Fightmaster will be competing in the high jump this weekend at the USATF Indoor Championships. As one of the best in the nation in the event, the Bulldogs' junior from Calhoun, Georgia, will challenge for the championship beginning at 4:25 p.m. (CT).

Oates and Fightmaster are the first Samford competitors to qualify for the prestigious USATF Indoor Championships since Michael Seaman in 2013. It also marks Oates' third United States championship event and Fightmaster's first.
 
To follow along at home, the 2018 USATF Indoor Championships feature live commercial free-coverage on NBC Sports Gold, as well as an additional three and a half hours of broadcast coverage on NBCSN.
 
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