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HCAC Sends Six Athletes to NCAA Division III Track Championships
Men's Entry List / Women's Entry List
BEREA, OH - Three Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference schools have qualified student-athletes to the 2010 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The event will be held Thursday through Saturday, May 27-29, at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
A total of 688 participants will compete in the championships. Student-athletes qualified for the championships by reaching the automatic and provisional standards established for each event. Competition will take place at George Finnie Stadium on the BWC campus.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Manchester College will each compete in three events, while Anderson University qualified one participant.
Rose-Hulman's Sutton Coleman (Lebanon, Va./H.S.) and Liz Evans (Bicknell, Ind./North Knox) qualified for a total of three events at the meet. Coleman will compete in the 400-meter hurdles on Thursday and the 110-meter high hurdles on Friday afternoon. The sophomore will compete in a field of 17 in the 400-meter event and 16 in the 110-meter race.
Evans is the first female student-athlete in Rose history to compete at the outdoor championships, qualifying with the top mark in the nation in the high jump. The freshman earned national runner-up honors in the women's high jump at the indoor championships to become the first female All-American in an individual sport in RHIT history. She will compete in a field of 20 in the women's high jump on Saturday.
Joining Evans in the high jump at the meet will be Manchester College's Kailey Honn (Westfield, Ind./H.S.). The junior defeated Evans at the HCAC Championships, clearing 1.67 meters to claim the conference title.
Manchester's John Kimmel (Ft. Wayne, Ind./Elmhurst) returns to defend his national title in the high jump from a year ago. The senior holds the top qualifying mark in the country this spring (2.11 meters) and will compete against a field of 18 in the men's high jump on Saturday afternoon.
The Spartans also qualified a participant in the men's 400-meter dash. Senior Korey Bucher (Plymouth, Ind./H.S.) will compete among 17 other athletes on Friday afternoon, after qualifying with a time of 48.00 seconds.
Anderson University's Leonard Wells (Warsaw, Ind./H.S.) qualified in the discus for the championship meet. The sophomore is ranked eighth in the field of 16 and will throw on Saturday afternoon. Wells best throw of 171' 10" this season set an Anderson University record.
The top eight finishers in each event will earn All-American honors after the completion of event finals Saturday.
