ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T will have two members of its men's track & field team in competition next week at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Allendale, Mich., as the NCAA announced the field for the meet today.

Mitch Fairless (St. Charles, MO/Duchesne) and Nathan Swadley (Willard, MO/Willard) – both of whom won championships at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Outdoor Championships won by the Miners as a team earlier this month – will represent S&T at the meet that will be hosted by Grand Valley State University.  Fairless will compete in the high jump and Swadley will take part in the competition in the shot put.

Fairless enters the national meet with the highest national ranking among the Miner competitors of 12^th in the high jump, where he cleared a school record 6-11 to win the conference championship. Fairless is tied at the No. 12 spot with Augustana's Tyl Woelber, who also cleared 6-11 last weekend at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championships and Orlandus Gamble of UNC Pembroke, who cleared that height at a meet in early April.  Woebler, however, was not among the 13 competitors selected to compete in the high jump.

The top high jump mark of the 2021 season has been posted by Ushan Perera of Texas A&M-Commerce of 7-6½, which he cleared to win the Lone Star Conference Championships.  Competition in the high jump, which will mark the first national appearance for Fairless, will take place on Friday, May 28 starting at 1 p.m., Central time.

Swadley was named as the GLVC Field Athlete of the Year after becoming only the second student-athlete to capture the conference's discus, hammer throw and shot put titles in the same conference meet.  Swadley holds the S&T school record in both the shot put and discus – both marks were set this season – and has his highest ranking in the shot put of 15^th with his top performance of 58-7½ that won the GLVC title.

Swadley will be competing at the national meet for the second time; his previous appearance came at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championships, where he finished 16^th in the shot put with a mark of 56-5¾ during his freshman season.

The shot put competition is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 29 at 1 p.m., Central time.  The top mark recorded in the event this season came last week from Missouri Southern's Rajindra Campbell of 65-6¾.