SEWANEE, Tenn. - For the third consecutive
year, the Trinity University men were crowned SCAC Men's Track and
Field champions, earning the 2009 title Saturday on the campus of
The University of the South. Official
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The Texas Tigers finished with 198 points, 26 more than
second-place Centre College who had 172 points. Rhodes College
finished third with 134 points, followed by DePauw University with
98, Sewanee-The University of the South with 68, Colorado
College with 52.5, Hendrix College with 26.5, Southwestern
University with 18 and Oglethorpe University with six.
Trinity's Todd Wildman was named the SCAC Men's Track and Field
Athlete of the Year. The senior from Dallas, Texas, finished first
in the long jump, the 110-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles
and took second in the high jump. He set new SCAC championship
meet records in both the 110-meter hurdles (14.80) and the
400-meter hurdles (52.36).
Other Trinity men who set new SCAC championship records included
Chass Armstrong, who finished in a record time of 3:55.46 in the
men's 1,500 meters and Zach Brush, who set a new standard in the
800 meters with a finishing time of 1:54.65. Chris Baer launched
the javelin to a new SCAC meet distance of 198 feet, eight
inches.
For the two day event, 14 SCAC men's and women's meet records fell.
| New SCAC Track & Field Championship Meet Records | ||||||
| Name | School | Event | New Record | |||
| Chass Armstrong | Trinity | Men's 1,500 Meters | 3:55.46 | |||
| Chris Baer | Trinity | Men's Javelin | 198' 8" | |||
| Chalankis Brown | Sewanee | Men's 100 Meters | 10.75 | |||
| Zach Brush | Trinity | Men's 800 Meters | 1:54.65 | |||
| Elizabeth Eder | Trinity | Women's 10,000 Meters | 37:04.23 | |||
| Kristen Forbes | Rhodes | Women's 200 Meters | 25.04 | |||
| Chrys Jones | Centre | Men's Triple Jump |
49' 3 1/2" | |||
| Emily Loeffler | Trinity | Women's 3,000 Meter Steeplechase | 10:44.91 | |||
| Andrew Maryott | Rhodes | Men's Hammer Throw | 153' 8" | |||
| Emily Niehaus | Centre | Women's Hammer Throw | 164' 1" | |||
| Lauren Reich | DePauw | Women's 800 Meters | 2:14.74 | |||
| Kim Tryon | Rhodes | Women's Pole Vault | 11' 4 1/2" | |||
| Todd Wildman | Trinity | Men's 110-Meter Hurdles | 14.80 | |||
| Todd Wildman | Trinity | Men's 400-Meter Hurdles | 52.36 | |||
Click here for a link to the official results of the 2009 SCAC Men's and Women's Track & Field Championships.
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