Warwick resident Melanie Brunelle is headed for a career first.

The former Pilgrim High School standout, who is a freshman at Rhode Island College, is headed for Grinnell, Iowa, where she will compete in this weekend’s NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.

“This will be Melanie’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Championship,” Scott Gibbons, RIC’s award-winning Director of Communications, announced earlier this week. “She’ll take an impressive resume with her for the event.”

Brunelle, who will compete in the high jump, earned All-New England honors, finishing first in the high jump (1.68m; program and field house record), first in the triple jump (11.68 field house record) and fourth in the 600m (1:347.75) while also competing as a member of the first-place 4x200m relay (1.44.19, program and field house record).

She also earned a trio of New England Alliance trials, finishing first in the 600m in 1:37:12; first in the long jump at 5.32m; and first in the triple jump at 11.43m. She also earned New England Alliance honors with a third-place finish in the high jump at 1.58m and a seventh-place effort in the 60m hurdles.

Brunelle was named a New England Alliance honoree after competing as a member of the second-place 4x200m relay at 1:45.91 at the NE Championships back on Feb. 13. She was named the Little East Conference Rookie Field Athlete of the Week nine times this winter.

She is the only member of the Anchorwomen’s 2016 indoor track and field team who qualified for this weekend’s NCAA championships.

Lincoln’s Edward Cummins, a senior with the Anchormen’s squad, will compete in the weight throw during this weekend’s NCAA championships in Iowa. He has earned All-New England honors throughout the season and was named Little East Conference Athlete of the Week five times.