The University of Wisconsin-Platteville track and field teams will be sending various talented athletes to the Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb., on March 14-15 to compete at the NCAA Indoor National Championships.

The NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Track & Field Committee announced the participants on March 10, according to a release from NCAA.com.

The top 17 women with the best performances in their events were chosen and the top 15 men in each event were also chosen.

The best 12 relay teams in the nation will be participating as well, although only one team from each institution is allowed.

The Pioneers’ women’s team will be sending three athletes to Lincoln to compete for a title.

Sophomore Alyssa Iserman will be fifth-seeded in the high jump with a leap of 1.7 meters (5 feet, 7 inches), which she achieved on Feb. 15 at the UW-Platteville Invitational Meet.

Accompanying Iserman in the high jump will be Caitlin Thomson, a junior from Whitehall.

Thomson’s performance has improved statistically, as well as mentally, from last year.

“This indoor season has gone really well. My biggest goal was to get to nationals for indoor and clear 5 feet 6 inches,” Thomson said. “I have also mentally had a lot more positive of a season than in the past. Even on rougher days, I would like to say I handled not doing as well better than the previous couple years. That was another big goal: to be a better teammate and more positive person during meets.”

Thomson’s highest clearance of 1.69 meters (5 feet, 6 inches) ties her with five other athletes from around the nation and places her 14th on the seeding chart.

She, along with the other Pioneer athletes, will prepare for nationals mostly by staying consistent in their training.

“I am preparing mostly by just keeping a similar routine to what I have done all semester, it has clearly been working pretty well so far, so I don’t feel the need to change anything really,” Thomson said.

Amber Williams, a freshman from Milwaukee, has had one of the more productive seasons on the team and will be headed to nationals in two events.

She ranked sixth in the nation with her 5.72 meters leap (18 feet, 9.75 inches) in the long jump and is also the sixth seed in the triple jump with her 11.90 meter (39 feet, 0.5 inch) performance.

Williams’ effort in the triple jump set a university record.

The men’s team will also be sending three athletes to the meet: sophomore Ian LaMere and seniors T.J. Valley and Jared Bradfish.

LaMere will be competing as the 15th-seed in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 8:17.27, as well as a sixth-seed in the 5,000-meter run (14:23.57).

Valley will be looking to cap off a highly productive season by competing as the fifth-seed for men’s 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.08 seconds.

This time, which Valley achieved at the UW-Platteville Final Qualifier last Friday in Williams Fieldhouse, is the fastest in school history.

Valley started off the season with a few injuries, but ended up recovering and now comes close to fulfilling the goals he originally set for himself.

“This indoor season has gone very well with only a few hiccups. At the beginning of the season I was dealing with some injuries in the calves. Towards conference, I got healthy and ran a time not too far off of my PR [personal record] to take first in conference, which was my goal for indoor season,” Valley said. “My goals going to the NCAA championships are running under eight seconds and hopefully taking first in the nation.”

Bradfish, who won WIAC Track and Field Athlete of the Week in the week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2 for his pole vault clearance of 16-2.75 at the Jack Jennett Invite on Jan. 31,  will start off the championship meet ranked third in the nation.

Two weeks following the March 15 NCAA indoor national championships, the Pioneer qualifiers, along with the rest of the team, will begin the 2014 outdoor season at the Washington University Invitational in St. Louis, Mo.