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- Indoor Track and Field Athletes
Prepare for National Championships
- (March 6, 2008)
The
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference has 35 indoor
track and field athletes who will represent the
league at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and
Field Championships. The two-day event will be
held March 14-15 in Myers Field House on the campus
of Minnesota State University, Mankato.
On the women's side, 14 student-athletes will
participate in six events, including one relay.
For the men, 21 student-athletes hope to bring home
gold in seven individual events and two relays.
Shippensburg will be represented by its
record-breaking distance medley squad of Abby Huber,
Shannon Hare, Jamie McCollum and Mary Dell.
A trio of Slippery Rock women in Lacey Cochran,
Jennifer Hansen and Whitney Hendershot represent The
Rock. All three have set new Rock records in
their respective events while Hansen also set the
conference mark in the pole vault with a mark of
13-1.5. Cochran will compete in the 400-meter
dash while Hendershot will compete in the high jump.
The East Stroudsburg duo of Lynn Mayer and Janelle
Smith will battle Hendershot in the high jump.
Mayer and Smith both recorded qualifying heights of
5-7.25.
Holly Urban (California), Maureen Newell (IUP),
Priscilla Jennings (Millersville), Danielle Scardino
(West Chester) and Lock Haven's Chelsea Morse round
out the women's qualifiers.
For the men, California (5), Mansfield (4), Kutztown
(3), Slippery Rock (2), East Stroudsburg (2), West
Chester (2), Shippensburg (2) and Lock Haven have
all qualified student-athletes for the championship.
California's Chris Clark is seeded second in the
5000-meter run with his automatic qualifying time of
14:02.52. He will be joined by the Vulcans
1,600-meter relay squad of Brad Rager, CJ Baker,
Dadre Williams and Frank Ehrensberger.
Mansfield's Chris Cummings hopes to bring home a
gold in the mile run and add another chapter to his
epic career as a Mountaineer. He will join
Dave Sanford, Bryan Falcone and Victor Garcia as
part of the distance medley squad.
Kutztown is represented in three individual events
by Rusty Smith (60-meter hurdles) and James Dart and
Steve Tyson in the shot put.
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Name - Women |
Event |
Seed |
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Lacey Cochran, Slippery Rock |
400m |
16, 57.29 |
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Priscilla Jennings, Millersville |
800m |
16, 2:14.32 |
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Mile |
13, 5:03.77 |
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Maureen Newell, IUP |
Mile |
14, 5:02.55 |
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Holly Urban, California |
800m |
12, 2:14.06 |
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Danielle Scardino, West Chester |
60m H |
14, 8.74 |
Abby Huber, Shannon Hare,
Jamie McCollum, Mary Dell - Shippensburg |
DMR |
9, 12:00.78 |
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Whitney Hendershot, Slippery Rock |
HJ |
2, 5-9.25 |
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Chelsea Morse, Lock Haven |
HJ |
4, 5-9.25 |
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Lynn Mayer, East Stroudsburg |
HJ |
7, 5-7.25 |
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Janelle Smith, East Stroudsburg |
HJ |
8, 5-7.25 |
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Jennifer Hansen, Slippery Rock |
PV |
2, 13.-1.5 |
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Name - Men |
Event |
Seed |
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Chris Clark, California |
5000m |
2, 14:02.52 |
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Chris Cummings, Mansfield |
Mile |
7, 4:10.60 |
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Brad Mueller, Slippery Rock |
60m |
6, 6.79 |
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Iuri Pinto, East Stroudsburg |
Mile |
13, 4:11.63 |
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Jarret Eaton, West Chester |
60m H |
1, 7.84 |
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Paul Martin, Lock Haven |
60m H |
11, 8.10 |
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Rusty Smith, East Stroudsburg |
60m H |
7, 8.04 |
Brad Rager, CJ Baker,
Dadre Williams, Frank Ehrensberger -
California |
1,600R |
9, 3:18.01 |
Dave Sanford, Bryan Falcone,
Victor Garcia, Cummings - Mansfield |
DMR |
7, 10:00.81 |
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Leander Toney, Shippensburg |
HJ |
6, 6-10.25 |
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Cody Hartzler, Kutztown |
HJ |
7, 6-10.25 |
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Jamal James, Shippensburg |
LJ |
8, 23-9 |
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Adam Samborski, West Chester |
LJ |
12, 23-8.25 |
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James Dart, Kutztown |
Shot |
10, 55-1 |
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Steve Tyson, Kutztown |
Shot |
11, 54-10.75 |
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