HCAC Sends Six Athletes to NCAA Division III Indoor Track Championships
Men's Entry List / Women's Entry List
COLUMBUS, OH - Three Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference schools have qualified student-athletes to the 2011 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships in results released by the NCAA. The event will be held Friday and Saturday, March 11-12, at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
Approximately 450 of the nation’s top indoor track and field student-athletes are expected to compete. Student-athletes qualified for the championships by reaching the automatic and provisional standards established for each event. Competition will take place at The Capital Center on campus.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will each compete in four events, while Franklin College and Manchester College qualified one participant.
Rose sophomore Liz Evans (Bicknell, Ind./North Knox) enters with the nation's top high jump performance this season with a leap of 5' 7.25". Evans earned two national runner-up honors last season and is the first Engineer female student-athlete to earn multiple All-American honors at Rose-Hulman.
Junior Jeremiah Edwards (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence North) recorded the No. 5 seed nationally in the 55-meter dash with a Rose-Hulman school record time of 6.39 seconds at Wisconsin-Stevens Point last weekend. Edwards has set a school record three times in the 55-meter dash this season.
Junior Sutton Coleman (Lebanon, Va./H.S.) will make his second appearance at the NCAA Indoor National Championships after qualifying seventh in the 55-meter high hurdles. Coleman snapped a 33-year old school record earlier this season and recorded a season-best time of 7.59 seconds on Saturday at Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Senior Derek Bischak (Angola, Ind./H.S.) earned the No. 12 spot in the mile run and rounds out the Rose-Hulman national qualifiers. Bischak ran a season-best time of 4:13.84 to snap a 29-year old school record by nearly five seconds to qualify for the national meet. He also earned HCAC co-Most Valuable Runner honors at the league's Indoor championships.
Franklin College’s Heather Waterman (Shelbyville, Ind./Morristown) qualified for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in the mile run at Mount Union this past weekend. The senior finished second in the event, posting a time of 5:00.96 to make the cut among provisional qualifiers. Waterman will be seeded fourteenth at the national meet.
Manchester College’s Jessi Bremer (Howe, Ind./Prairie Heights) broke her own school record and qualified for the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in the 800-meter run over the weekend. The senior broke her own school record by two seconds at Wisconsin-Stevens Point Saturday, finishing the event with a time of 2:15.27 to qualify for the national meet this weekend.
The top eight finishers in each event will earn All-American honors after the completion of event finals Saturday.
