Two Missouri State track and field athletes qualified and competed in the NCAA Indoor Championship. Fabian Florant competed in the triple jump and finished sixth and Tracy Partain represented the Bears in the pentathlon and came out with a tenth-place finish on Saturday's final day of the championship meet, hosted by University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark.

Florant, a Missouri State senior, finished sixth in the triple jump with a distance of 53'1". This jump sets a new MSU varsity mark. The previous mark was held by Greg Crookendale at 52'5 1/2", set in 1998. Florant's jump ranks first on the Bears' all-time top performers. Florant also earned All-America honors.

Senior Partain finished 10th in the women's indoor pentathlon with a total score of 4,017. This score raises Partain's MSU varsity record, that she set last season, by two points. Partain ran a time of 8.57 in the 60-meter hurdles, jumped 5'7" in the high jump, threw 35'11 1/2" in the shot put, leaped 18'7" in the long jump and ran a time of 2:21.67 in the 800-meter run. Partain's score ranks first on MSU's list of all-time performers.

This meet concludes the Bears' 2006 indoor track and field season. The outdoor season will begin Mar. 25 as Missouri State travels to Tulsa, Okla., for the University of Tulsa Invitational.