NCAC Women's Outdoor Track

Edited: April 28, 2008

The 2008 NCAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships are set for Thursday and Friday, May 1-2. Ohio Wesleyan hosts the 24th annual event. Allegheny is the defending men's champion, and has taken the past five crowns in a row and eight overall. Denison has won six men's North Coast titles, while Ohio Wesleyan and Wittenberg have claimed four and Case Western Reserve one. The host Battling Bishops are the defending women's champions, and have taken six NCAC titles in all. Allegheny leads all conference teams with 12 women's championships; Wooster took four, and Denison has claimed one.

NCAC Multi-Event Championships:
The first leg of the North Coast Athletic Conference track championship was completed last weekend at Oberlin as decathlon and heptathlon were contested. The results of those competitions will be factored into next weekend's results in the team standings.

Ohio Wesleyan junior Andrew Bloom (Powell, OH/Worthington Kilbourne) was the decathlon champion and Allegheny senior Emily Pfeufer (St. Marys PA/Elk County Catholic) won the heptathlon. Bloom set a school record with 5,804 points, to edge the second-place finisher, Oberlin junior Kyle Taljan (North Ridgeville, OH/St. Ignatius) by 72 points. Bloom won the 100 meters, long jump, high jump, and 110-meter hurdles. Pfeufer scored 4,388 points to outscore runner-up senior Ashley Shaffer (Lancaster, OH/Lancaster) of Ohio Wesleyan by 227 points. Pfeufer won three of the seven events: the high jump, long jump and javelin. Both Pfeufer and Shaffer qualified for the NCAA Division III championships in the heptathlon.

Notes:
ALLEGHENY sent a partial squad to the Carnegie Mellon Senior Meet. Angela Dyer (McKeesport, PA/Elizabeth Forward) was third in the 400 (1:05.41). Stephanie Alberico (Bethesda, MD/Walter Johnson) posted the best effort of her career with a time of 2:24.62 en route to finishing third in the 800. At the Penn Relays, senior Liz Earley (Venetia, PA/Peters Township) broke her own school record in the hammer ...

Freshman Brooke Boening (Harpers Ferry, WV/Jefferson) won the 3000 meters in 10:56.68, while classmate Ashley Putnam (North East, PA/North East) won the 800 (2:22.67) at the Denison Last Chance Meet - DU's first outdoor home meet since 1999. Sophomore Emily Hammeren (Olmsted Falls, OH/Olmsted Falls) won the pole vault (9 feet, 6 inches) and Claire Navarro (Seal Beach, CA/Los Alamitos) took the long jump (16-0.5) ...

Sophomore Nadrienna Damaris (Detroit, MI/Renaissance) won the long jump to lead HIRAM at the Oberlin Invitational. Damaris lept 16 feet, 9.75 inches as the Terriers placed seventh in the nine-team event ...

Sophomore Betsy Segelken (Gahanna, OH/Columbus Academy) placed fifth in the discus (91 feet, 7 inches) and fourth in the javelin (85-11) to lead KENYON at the Denison Last Chance meet. Both efforts were personal records, as was her heave in the hammer (65-5) which gave her sixth place in the event ...

Sophomore Sharon Rymut (Broadview Hts., OH/Brecksville-Broadview Hts.) won the discus (123-6) and hammer (121-8) to lead OHIO WESLEYAN at the Denison Last Chance meet ...

WITTENBERG senior Allison Walker (Columbus, OH/Academy) won the hammer at Oberlin ...

WOOSTER junior Ali Drushal (Lakeville, OH/West Holmes) won the 400-meter hurdles ( 1:09.53) and javelin (109-2) and freshman Elizabeth Wardrop (Rockford, MI/American School of the Hague) took the high jump (4-10.25) and triple jump (31-8.75) at the Denison meet.

Athletes of the Week All-NCAC Teams Championships Records NCAA Outdoor Track Top Times	*Edited:* April 28, 2008 The 2008 NCAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships are set for Thursday and Friday, May 1-2. Ohio Wesleyan hosts the 24th annual event. Allegheny is the defending men's champion, and has taken the past five crowns in a row and eight overall. Denison has won six men's North Coast titles, while Ohio Wesleyan and Wittenberg have claimed four and Case Western Reserve one. The host Battling Bishops are the defending women's champions, and have taken six NCAC titles in all. Allegheny leads all conference teams with 12 women's championships; Wooster took four, and Denison has claimed one. *NCAC Multi-Event Championships:* The first leg of the North Coast Athletic Conference track championship was completed last weekend at Oberlin as decathlon and heptathlon were contested. The results of those competitions will be factored into next weekend's results in the team standings. Ohio Wesleyan junior Andrew Bloom (Powell, OH/Worthington Kilbourne) was the decathlon champion and Allegheny senior Emily Pfeufer (St. Marys PA/Elk County Catholic) won the heptathlon. Bloom set a school record with 5,804 points, to edge the second-place finisher, Oberlin junior Kyle Taljan (North Ridgeville, OH/St. Ignatius) by 72 points. Bloom won the 100 meters, long jump, high jump, and 110-meter hurdles. Pfeufer scored 4,388 points to outscore runner-up senior Ashley Shaffer (Lancaster, OH/Lancaster) of Ohio Wesleyan by 227 points. Pfeufer won three of the seven events: the high jump, long jump and javelin. Both Pfeufer and Shaffer qualified for the NCAA Division III championships in the heptathlon. Notes: ALLEGHENY sent a partial squad to the Carnegie Mellon Senior Meet. Angela Dyer (McKeesport, PA/Elizabeth Forward) was third in the 400 (1:05.41). Stephanie Alberico (Bethesda, MD/Walter Johnson) posted the best effort of her career with a time of 2:24.62 en route to finishing third in the 800. At the Penn Relays, senior Liz Earley (Venetia, PA/Peters Township) broke her own school record in the hammer ... Freshman Brooke Boening (Harpers Ferry, WV/Jefferson) won the 3000 meters in 10:56.68, while classmate Ashley Putnam (North East, PA/North East) won the 800 (2:22.67) at the Denison Last Chance Meet - DU's first outdoor home meet since 1999. Sophomore Emily Hammeren (Olmsted Falls, OH/Olmsted Falls) won the pole vault (9 feet, 6 inches) and Claire Navarro (Seal Beach, CA/Los Alamitos) took the long jump (16-0.5) ... Sophomore Nadrienna Damaris (Detroit, MI/Renaissance) won the long jump to lead HIRAM at the Oberlin Invitational. Damaris lept 16 feet, 9.75 inches as the Terriers placed seventh in the nine-team event ... Sophomore Betsy Segelken (Gahanna, OH/Columbus Academy) placed fifth in the discus (91 feet, 7 inches) and fourth in the javelin (85-11) to lead KENYON at the Denison Last Chance meet. Both efforts were personal records, as was her heave in the hammer (65-5) which gave her sixth place in the event ... Sophomore Sharon Rymut (Broadview Hts., OH/Brecksville-Broadview Hts.) won the discus (123-6) and hammer (121-8) to lead OHIO WESLEYAN at the Denison Last Chance meet ... WITTENBERG senior Allison Walker (Columbus, OH/Academy) won the hammer at Oberlin ... WOOSTER junior Ali Drushal (Lakeville, OH/West Holmes) won the 400-meter hurdles ( 1:09.53) and javelin (109-2) and freshman Elizabeth Wardrop (Rockford, MI/American School of the Hague) took the high jump (4-10.25) and triple jump (31-8.75) at the Denison meet.

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