Manchester's Honn and RHIT's Evans Finish 1st and 2nd at NCAA Championships

Release courtesy of Rose-Hulman and Manchester College

Men's Results / Women's Results

BEREA, OH -- Manchester College junior Kailey Honn (Westfield, Ind./H.S.) became the sixth National Champion for Manchester, winning the women's high jump event at the 2010 NCAA Division III National Outdoor Championships. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology freshman Liz Evans (Bicknell, Ind./North Knox) earned national runner-up honors with an All-American performance at the national meet.

Honn, a Westfield, Indiana native broke her own school record with a height of 1.78 meters (5-8), defeating conference rival Elizabeth Evans of Rose-Hulman by one inch. Evans was one of four athletes to clear the 5' 7" mark and cleared the height on her second attempt to capture tiebreak honors for second place in the national meet.

Evans remains the only All-American in the history of Rose-Hulman women's and track and field, and is also the first Fightin' Engineer female student-athlete to earn All-American honors in an individual sport. Honn became the sixth National Champion for Manchester after winning the event.

Defending national champion John Kimmel (Ft. Wayne, Ind./Elmhurst) of Manchester took second in the high jump, falling to Monmouth's Tyler Hannam by judges decision, as both cleared 2.12 meters (6-11 1/2). Manchester's Korey Bucher (Plymouth, Ind./H.S.) took eighth in the men's 400 meter dash, finishing the race in 48.35 seconds.

Honn, Kimmel, Bucher and Evans all earn All-American honors, as Kimmel and Bucher were All-Americans last season, while Honn and Evans earn their first All-American honor this year.