MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #20
April 22-23,
2011
Centre College wins its first conference men's track and field
title in program history at the 2011 SCAC Men's Track & Field
Championships hosted by Rhodes College. In the school's 49 years in
the College Athletic Conference and then Southern Collegiate
Athletic Conference, Centre had won 61 conference championships -
but none in men's track and field.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #19
May 26-28,
2011
Senior Chrys Jones ends his four year stint at Centre College with
a fifth-place finish in the triple jump with a long leap
of 49' 5 3/4" at the 2011 NCAA Division III Men's Track &
Field Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University. He was named
an All-American for his performance. Jones ends his career with
four national championships in the triple jump - two of which were
indoor national championships and two were outdoor.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #18
May
27-29, 2004
Senior Simon Flory of DePauw University earns all-America
honors at the 2004 NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track &
Field Championship at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. Flory
finishes eighth with a time of 9:16.33 in the 3,000 meter
steeplechase.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT
#17
May 24-26, 2007
At the 2007 NCAA Division III Men’s Outdoor Track & Field
Championships, hosted by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Colorado
College’s Julian Boggs garners all-American honors in the
5,000 meter run, finishing in fifth place with a time of 14:33.23
– earning Colorado four points and a 49th-place team
finish.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #16
May 24-26,
2001
Sophomore Andrew Schipper of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
earns his second consecutive all-America honor at the 2001 NCAA
Division III Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championship at
Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. Schipper clears 15-7 to earn
fourth place. He finished tied for second in the event as a
freshman and duplicated that feat earlier in the year at the 2001
NCAA Division III Indoor Championships.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT
#15
May 21-23,
1998
Tim Barkley, a freshman from Rhodes College, finishes in a
tie for seventh place in the high jump competition with
a leap of 6-6 3/4 inches to earn all-America honors at the
1998 NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Championships in St. Paul, Minn., on the campus of Macalester
College.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #14
April 27-28,
2001
The DePauw University men successfully defend their SCAC men's
track & field crown with a conference championship meet record
score of 268 points at the 2001 Spring Sports Festival - hosted by
DePauw. The Indiana Tigers won 10 of 17 individual events and also
earned first-place honors in the 4x100 meter relay. The 118-point
winning margin over second-place Trinity University remains the
largest margin of victory in SCAC Men's Track & Field
championship history.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #13
April 22-23,
1999
Senior Mike Wottle of Rhodes College is named the SCAC Male
Athlete-of-the-Year for the third time in his career (1996 and
1998), making him the first three-time winner of the award. Wottle,
who takes top honors with a win in the 5,000 meters, 3,000 meter
steeplechase and a second place finish in the 10,000 meters,
finishes his SCAC career with six individual
championship titles (2 in the 10,000 meters, 2 in the 5,000
meters and 2 in the 3,000 meter steeplechase).
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #12
April 23-24,
2004
By the narrowest of margins, DePauw University claims its fourth
SCAC Men’s Track title in five years. The Tigers out-point
Centre College 178-177 to win the 2004 SCAC Men’s Track &
Field Championship at Georgia Tech. Rhodes College’s 161-156
victory over Sewanee-University of the South at the 1993
Championships had been the closest SCAC Men’s Track team
finish.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #11
May 22-24,
2003
Senior Andrew Schipper became the first Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology student-athlete to earn six all-America honors in his
career with a seventh-place finish in the pole vault (15-7) at the
2003 NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Championships at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #10
May 28, 2005
DePauw University senior Graham Wellman concludes his
collegiate career with an all-America performance at the 2005 NCAA
Division III Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships at
Wartburg College. Wellman finishes fifth in the 5,000-meter run in
14:46.56. The all-America honor was his fourth at DePauw - first in
outdoor track - and gave the Tigers four points and a tie for 44th
place in the team standings.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #9
May 22-24,
2008
For the third time in its history, the SCAC has three
individuals earn all-America honors at one national championship
meet. First-year Zach Brush of Trinity University runs a 1:52.59
and finishes in sixth place at the 2008 NCAA Division III
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Oshkosh,
Wisc. Junior Chris Baer of Trinity finishes in fifth place in the
javelin competition with a toss of 205 feet and 2 inches.
Sophomore Jerry Maldonado of Hendrix College - with a leap of
6 feet, 6 inches - finishes seventh in the high jump. Trinity
finishes 43rd, Hendrix 77th in the final team
standings.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #8
May 20-22, 1999
DePauw University finishes tied for 28th at the 1999 NCAA
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships (@ Berea, Ohio)
behind the all-America performance of sophomore Colin Smith. Smith,
the defending discus champion and an all-American in the weight
throw at the 1999 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, finishes
second in this year’s discus competition with his third-best
throw ever at 173-7. Smith's teammate, Jake Carpenter, finishes
seventh in the 1,500 meters (3:52.93) to also take home all-America
honors. Junior Matt Wilkinson of Rhodes College earns all-America
honors with a seventh-place finish in the javelin with a toss of
190-1.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #7
May 25-27,
2000
The SCAC has a tremendous national meet at the 2000 NCAA Division
III Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at North
Central College in Naperville, Ill. Three student-athletes earn
all-America honors and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology posts
the league's best-ever finish (at that time), finishing in a tie
for 19th-place among 74 schools who scored. Rose-Hulman
freshman Andrew Schipper ties the league's highest individual
finish with a tie for second in the pole valut (16-2 3/4) and
teammate Phil Reksel, a senior, finishes fifth in the 400 hurdles
(52.40). DePauw junior Colin Smith places sixth in the discus with
a toss of 158-0.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #6
April 26-27,
1996
At the 1996 SCAC Spring Sports Festival on the campus of
Sewanee-The University of the South, Rhodes College wins the SCAC
Men's Track & Field Championship with a 62.25 point win over
second-place Centre College. The Lynx place first in seven
individual events - led by freshman Mike Wottle who earns
Co-Athlete-of-the-Year honors with a first-place finish in the
10,000 meters and second-place finishes in the 3,000 meter
steeplechase and 5,000 meters. The championship is the fourth
straight for the Rhodes' men, which remains the longest consecutive
win streak in the sport by any program in the SCAC
era.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #5
May 21-24,
1997
Sophomore Jason Walter of Rhodes College jumps 47-9 1/4 to finish
fifth in the triple jump at the 1997 NCAA Division III Men's
Outdoor Track & Field Championships held on the campus of the
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The performance earns him the
first-ever all-America honor for a men's track & field
student-athlete in the SCAC era. Walter had earned all-America
honors in the 1997 NCAA Division III Indoor Track &
Field Championships with a seventh place finish in the same
event.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #4
April 25-26,
2003
Trinity University claimed the 2003 SCAC Men's Track &
Field championship with 209.5 points, outdistancing second-place
DePauw University with 181.5 at the William Welch Track at
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The victory
snapping DePauw's three-year stranglehold on the
title. Trinity earned 10 championships to claim the victory,
led by five from the SCAC Track Athlete of the Year Jerheme Urban.
The versatile Urban claimed titles in the 100-meter dash, 400-meter
hurdles, long jump, triple jump and the javelin throw - giving him
12 individual conference career titles in six different
events. It was Urban's fourth-consecutive Athlete of the Year award
- an all-time first in SCAC Track & Field. The 50 individual
points he accumulated at the 2003 conference meet are the most by
any single athlete at any SCAC Track & Field championship.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #3
May 23-25,
2002
DePauw University senior Eric Fruth becomes the first SCAC
student-athlete to earn two all-America honors at the same meet
when he finishes fifth in the both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter runs
at the 2002 NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Championships at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Fruth's
5,000 meter time was 14:54.37 and his 10,000 meter finishing time
was 31:08.64. His performances propel DePauw to a 38th place team
finish.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT #2
May 27-29,
2010
Centre College junior Chrys Jones wins his third national
title in the triple jump, following a win at the 2010 NCAA Division
III Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships at
Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio. Jones took the triple
jump title with a jump of 49’9.75”, and topped 16 other
participants. He won the 2009 outdoor national title as well as the
2010 indoor national title in the triple jump.
Trinity University junior Zach Brush also earns all-America
honors with a fourth-place finish in the 800 meter run. He recorded
a time of 1:52.91 and was just .12 seconds behind the third-place
finisher.
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD - MOMENT
#1
May 21-23, 2009
Led by Centre College sophomore Chrys Jones (pictured
left), SCAC student-athletes record five all-America
performances - a new conference high - at the 2009 NCAA Division
III Men's Track & Field Championships at Marietta College.
On the final day of the event, Jones sets a new Don Drumm Stadium
record with his winning triple jump at the 2009 national
championship. The individual national title is the 19th
all-time for a SCAC student-athlete and third during the
2008-09 academic year. Jones jumps 50 feet, 3 1/4 inches to earn
the national title in the event, the first-ever for a Centre
College student-athlete. He is the first male SCAC
student-athlete to win a national title at the NCAA
Outdoor Track and Field Championships since Rose-Hulman's Chris
Trapp won back-to-back-to-back javelin titles from 1984-1986.
In addition, Trinity University senior Chris Baer earns all-America
honors for the second straight year by registering a throw of 201
feet even (61.27 meters) to take third place in the javelin. His
teammate, freshman Justin Campbell, placed third in the discus with
a toss of 164 feet, 7 inches (50.18 meters). Trinity senior Todd
Wildman earned two all-America honors, placing second in the 110
meter hurdles in a time of 14.29 seconds (just five-hundredths of a
second behind the winner and sixth in the long jump with a jump of
22 feet, 10 3/4 inches (6.98 meters).
For more on the top SCAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field moment,
including an interview with Chrys Jones, click here.