MAC Annouces Women's Track and Field Weekly Honors

Women’s Track Winner:

 

Ali Bishel,

Ball State

Sophmore ● Chesterton, Ind. (Chesterton H.S.)

 

Bishel competed in the Indiana Relays against competition such as Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Southern Illinois, Indiana, and a mix of unattatched athletes.  She took first place in the 3000-meter run clocking in at 9:43.59.  She was also a key member of the distance medley relay team that earned first place finishing with a time of 12:02.73.  Finally she competed in the 4x800 meter relay team and finished fifth (9:18.10).

Other Nominations:

 

Jenaie Edwards, Central Michigan

Edwards placed second in the 800m at the Michigan Intercollegiates with a time of 2:10.86. It is the top time in the MAC this season. She placed behind Michigan’s Nicole Edwards who set a NCAA provisional mark. Edwards also anchored CMU’s 4x400m relay team which placed third (3:57.81)

 

Brooke Sposito, Kent State

Sposito won the women’s pentathlon with a total of 3,340 points. She scored a career-best in the 55 meter hurdles (8.67 seconds) to finish second. She won the women’s shot put with a career-best toss of 34’-2.25”. She also placed second in the high jump (5’-3.25”) and the 800 meters (2:22.30).

 

Breezie Gibson, Toledo

Gibson ran 25.14 in the 200m dash for a sixth place finish with only Akron's Brittany Hocker the only person from the MAC in front of her. She also came in third in the 60m dash with a time of 7.66, three hundredths of a second behind her all-time best indoor record. Gibson took part in the 4X400 medley relay that placed eighth overall (first team to finish in the MAC) with a time of 3:57.79.

 

Beverly Elcock, Eastern Michigan

Freshman Beverly Elcock continues to improve her 800 meter time this season as she ran to a fourth place finish in the 800-meters as the Michigan Intercollegiates, featuring several MAC foes (CMU/WMU) and the nationally ranked Michigan Wolverines (fifth). This time rankes Elcock 17th in EMU women's track history and ranks her fifth in the conference in the event.

 

Becky Horn, Western Michigan
Horn took first place in the 400m (55.03) at the Michigan Intercollegiates. Her split time in the 4x400 helped the relay team recover from an early baton miscue to retake the lead and win.

 

Mary Veith, Buffalo

Veith ran a personal best time in the Mile Run and placed 8th in a very competitive field at the Sykes-Sabcock Invitational.  Her time of 4:56.06 bettered her previous season's best by 3 seconds.  She currently leads the MAC standings.

 

Melissa Wiley, Ohio

Wiley recorded her best time so far this season in the 60 meter hurdles, breaking the nine second barrier with a time of 8.79, just .31 seconds off the school record. Wiley has consistently been the best competitor for the Bobcats in the hurdles, holding Bobcat season best times in the 60 meter and 55 meter hurdle events.

 

 

 

Women’s Field Winner:

 

Kristina Bolterstein

Miami University

Senior ● Middleburg Heights, OH , (Midpark H.S.)l

 

Miami University senior Kristina Bolterstein won the high jump at the University of Kentucky’s Rod McCrevy Memorial Track and Field Meet on Saturday. In a field that consisted of six top-30 teams, including Tennessee, Texas A & M, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia Tech, Bolterstein won the event after a jump off with Florida’s Jenna Utecht. Bolterstein cleared 5-8, which is two inches below her season-best and NCAA Provisional Qualifying Mark of 5-10.

 

Other Nominations

 

Janice Keppler, Eastern Michigan

Junior Janice Keppler won the pole vault for the fourth week in a row at the Michigan Intercollegiates, going 13-00.25 for the win. This mark is the third time this season that she posts an NCAA provisional qualifying mark,that continues to push her up in the national rankings. She is now tied for 15th.

 

Jessie Tanner, Ohio

Tanner set a new indoor track and field school record in the 20-lb. weight throw with a toss of 55 feet, 7.25 inches. She eclipsed Jaclyn Lugaila’s mark of 55 feet, 5.75 inches. Tanner took first in the Blue Division weight throw event at the Akron Open with her record setting heave and placed second in the Gold Division Discus with a throw of 139 feet, five inches. It was just the first time this season Tanner competed in the discus.

 

Erika Schroll, Central Michigan

Schroll placed fourth in the high jump and sixth in the pentathlon at the Michigan Intercollegiates. She jumped 5-6 to place fourth in the high jump and in her first pentathlon of her career she scored 3,228 points. Her marks in the pentathlon were 9.27 in the 55 m hurdles (734, 5-6 ½ in the high jump (842), 28-8 ¼ in the shot (447), 16-1 ¾ in the long jump (538) and 2:32.09 in the 800 m (667)

 

Jessica Miller Hafner, Akron

Hafner was the top collegian to place at the Akron Open, finishing second overall in pole vault to Olympic hopeful Kira Sims. Cleared a season-best and NCAA provisional height of 12-11.75 (3.96).

 

Brittany Houghton, Northern Illinois

Houghton earned two of NIU's eight first place finishes at the Tadd Metzger Invitational... Huskies scored 197 points as a team, the most they have all season and 104 points more than their closest competitor... senior Meagan Guenther again swept the throwing events, winning both the shot put (44'04.25") and the weight throw (58'06").

 

Anne Zakelj, Kent State

Zakelj, who competed in her second collegiate track meet after starring for the Golden Flashes’ volleyball team for four seasons, finished in a tie for fourth in the women’s high jump with a career-best leap of 5’-05.25” at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup at the Penn State University on Saturday (2/2).

 

Lauren McNichols, Ball State

McNichols competed in the Indiana Relays as well.  She earned second place in pole vault open session with a height of 11-7 3/4.  That height ties the BSU school record that McNichols currently owns.  She also competed in the high jump.  She cleared 5-2 1/4 finishing in a tie for 12th place.

 

Irene Cooper, Western Michigan
In the Michigan Intercollegiates, Cooper won the Weight throw at 61-01.25 breaking WMU's weight throw record, previously at 60-11.75. She also took fifth in Shot Put (44-06)

 

Tiffany Maskulinski, Buffalo

Maskulinski dominated the field at the Sykes-Sabcock Invitational at PSU in the PV. She claimed 1st place with her NCAA provisional qualifying standard and setting an indoor college best mark of 12'11.50".