JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- University of Saint Francis weight specialist Adam Longsworth will return to the NAIA Indoor Track and Field Championship which start today and continue through Saturday (March 10).

  Longsworth will compete in the weight throw on Friday, March 9, starting with preliminaries at 2 p.m. with finals to follow the completion of preliminaries. The shot put begins Saturday, March 10, at 1 p.m. with finals to follow.

  Heading into the championships for the second year in a row, Longsworth, an Elmhurst H.S. graduate, has the eighth best distance in the weight throw this season at 54 feet, 4 inches (16.56 meters) recorded in the DePauw Invitational. Topping the weight throw list is Eric Flores (Black Hills State) at 58-5.

   Longsworth is the No. 9 seed in the shot put with a best of 53-1 (16.19m) at the Anderson Invitational.

   In 2005-06, Longsworth did not produce a qualifying effort in the weight throw. He finished 14th in the shot put with a best effort of 50-9 1/2 in the preliminaries, his best effort in the 2005-06 indoor season.

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