Albany, N.Y. ? Gered Burns has been selected to compete at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, as announced on Tuesday by the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee.  The national championships will take place at California State University, Sacramento's A.G. Spanos Sports Complex on June 6-9.  He joins teammates Joe Greene (400-meter hurdles) and Marc Pallozzi (javelin) in this year's NCAA competition.

Burns earned an at-large selection based on his school-record 1:48.20 time in the semifinals of the 800-meter run at the IC4A championships.  Burns, a senior from Altamont, N.Y. who won this year's America East Conference title, becomes the fourth UAlbany male athlete to compete at nationals in the program's Division I history.

            Greene and Pallozzi each advanced to the NCAA championships for the second straight year with top-five finishes at last weekend's East Regional meet.  Greene placed third in the 400-hurdles final, the best finish by a UAlbany athlete in regional competition, in a school-record time of 50.18 seconds.  Pallozzi took fifth place at regionals by producing the second-best throw in the program's history with a mark of 226-feet, 8-inches.