NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Wellesley College's Randelle Boots has qualified to the finals of the mile run at the 2013 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.

The senior ran a time of 4:56.43 in the second heat of the preliminaries, which was fast enough to qualify to Saturday's finals. Boots ranked sixth in her heat, and will be the 10th-seeded athlete in the finals. 

Boots is gunning for her fourth-straight All-America honor in the mile. She won the event in 2011 and has earned All-America honors in each of her last three seasons of indoor track. 

Tomorrow's mile run final will be contested at 2:40pm EST. The event will be live streamed at:http://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule/2013/03/09

Wellesley students, faculty and staff gathered
to watch Randelle's preliminary heat