(Portions of this story were taken from the Rhodes
College website)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - After two days of intense
competition, the Rhodes College women claimed their fourth
consecutive SCAC Track & Field Championship, cruising to a
comfortable 54.5 point win over second-place DePauw University. Official website | Complete Results
Rhodes posted 204.5 points to DePauw's 150. Centre College
followed in third place with 128 points.
Rounding out the standings, Trinity University finished fourth
with 112.5 points, Millsaps College was fifth with 59 points
and Hendrix College finished sixth with 44 points.
Oglethorpe University placed seventh with 37
points, Southwestern University was eighth with 20
points, Colorado College followed in ninth with 14 points
and Sewanee-The University of the South came in 10th
with 11 points.
DePauw University's Courtney Lauer earned 2011 SCAC
Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Meet with 42 points
courtesy of four all-SCAC performances. Lauer won the javelin
throw and finished second in the shot put, the triple jump and the
long jump. She picked up additional points with a fourth-place
finish in the high jump, a seventh place finish in the 100-meter
hurdles and an eighth-place finish in the 800 meter run.
As for the Lynx, it was a banner meet for senior co-captain
Molly
Buck as she amassed almost a fourth of the team's point
total. She claimed victory in the 400m hurdles in a national
automatic qualifying time of 1:01.85 and victory in the long jump
with a distance of 17'6” (5.33m), second in the 100m hurdles
in a national provisional time of 14.77 seconds, and second in the
400m dash with a time of 57.80 seconds. She also helped the 4x100m
relay of freshman Mary Kate
Mullen, sophomore Megan
Lee, and sophomore Lindsay
Svehla to a first place finish with a season best time of
48.80 and she anchored the 4x400m squad of freshman Jess Burnam,
senior Sandy
Henin, and Lee to victory with a time 3:58.97.
Henin also had a strong meet in her own right, winning both the
1,500m and 800m run. In what was a very competitive 800m race,
Henin managed to outlast the runner up from DePauw, running a
2:18.19 to her 2:18.66. In the 1,500m it was a 1-2 finish for
Rhodes as Henin secured the victory with a 4:48.27 and senior
co-captain Kelsey
Dudziak finishing close on her heals in a 4:48.65. On day
one of competition Dudziak not only ran to a lifetime best and a
new school record in the 3,000m steeplechase, but her time of
11:09.82 also qualified her for the NCAA National
Championships.
Junior Taylor
Stephens ran two very strong and very intelligent races
to win the 10,000m and 5,000m in respective times of 37:53.41 and
18:04.87. It was her second consecutive 10,000m conference
championship and her first 5,000m title.
Freshman Amy Handelmann smashed the school record in the hammer
throw to place third. Her toss of 138'10” (42.32m) broke the
previous school record of 120'11” (36.87m) held by teammate
Alison
Lang. Lang had a fantastic meet in her own right,
bettering her personal best and previous school record with a
distance of 131'7” (40.12m). In the javelin she also threw a
lifetime best of 114'6” (34.89m) to place fifth it what was a
very competitive field.
After the meet Commissioner Dwayne Hanberry caught up with Rhodes head coach Robert Shankman to discuss his team’s championship performance. To listen to coach Shankman, click here.
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