BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – A group of five Union College Bulldog runners will travel south to Johnson City, Tenn., Thursday for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Indoor Track & Field National Championship.

The championship will start Thursday and conclude Saturday at Memorial Center on East Tennessee State University’s campus.

Johnnie Nabors (Lawrenceville, Ga.) will look to repeat his All-American performance from 2007 in the 60-meter dash. He enters the event with the second-fastest qualifying time at 6.82 seconds which he ran at the Virginia Tech Challenge. Last year he was third with a 6.88 second performance in the finals to become Union’s first Indoor Track & Field All-American.

The 60-meter dash prelim races are scheduled to start at 1:50 p.m. Friday with the semifinals at 4 p.m. The final is 1:25 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Andre Thornton (Loganville, Ga.) has qualified for two individual events, the 200 and 400 meters. Both events have their semifinals Friday, with the first being the 400 at 3:05 p.m. while the 200 is set to start at 6:20 p.m. Both finals are Saturday afternoon.

He is ranked ninth and tenth in the 200 and 400, respectively. Thornton posted a 200-meter dash time of 22.15 seconds at the Virginia Tech Challenge. In the 400, he raced to a 49.81 second time in January’s Gladstein Invitational.

Both are a part of the 1,600 relay team that owns the 19th fastest time nationally. The duo will be joined by Erick Coleman (Chicago, Ill.) and Scotty Barnes (Ewing, Va.). Jamie Jimison, Union's head coach, will take Cody Miller (Middlesboro, Ky.) as an alternant. The group ran to a time of three minutes and 24.49 seconds at the Virginia Tech Challenge.

The relay prelim race is Thursday evening at 6:15 p.m. and the final is the last event Saturday at 4:15 p.m.

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