SCAC Releases 2015 All-Conference Women's Track & Field Team

SCAC Releases 2015 All-Conference Women's Track & Field Team

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Based on the results of the 2015 SCAC Women's Track & Field Championships, which were held this past weekend at Trinity University, the conference office today released the All-SCAC Men's Track & Field team. Complete All-SCAC Listing

Trinity University won the women's team championship for the second time in three years.

To earn All-SCAC honors, a student-athlete had to finish in the top three in any individual event and/or be a part of a top three relay team at the conference championship meet.

Junior Bailey Drury of Trinity (pictured), the 2015 SCAC Track & Field Female Athlete of the Meet, highlights the team after posting a win in the 400 meters in addition to all-SCAC finishes in the 100 (third place) and 200 (second place). Drury was also on the Tigers' 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams, which took first place in both races.

Trinity produced three double event winners during the championship meet. Nkolika Nweke took first-place honors in both the 100 and 200 meters, Mariana Sigala won the 800 and 1,500 meters, and Britney Sullivan doubled up with victories in the long jump and triple jump.

Meredith Berger, Haleigh Garcia and Marlena Hunt of Texas Lutheran joined Drury as three-time all-SCAC honorees. Berger took first place in the shot put, second place in the discus and third place in the javelin; Garcia earned second place in the long jump and third place in the triple jump and high jump, while Hunt earned second place in both the triple jump and high jump and third place in the long jump.

Other multiple individual All-SCAC honorees include:
Ranecia Faison, Texas Lutheran (third place - 100 hurdles; third place - 400 hurdles)
Katie Groke, Trinity (second place - 400 meters; second place - 400 hurdles)
Rebecca Lavietes, Colorado College (first place - 10,000 meters; second place - 5,000 meters)
Haley Lesseter, Texas Lutheran (first place - javelin; third place - discus)
Michelle Obendorf, Trinity (first place - 3,000 steeplechase; third place - 5,000 meters)
Brittany Steubing, Texas Lutheran (second place - 100 meters; third place - 200 meters)