1st of 8 at NCAC championship
Senior Cirrus Robinson (Ashland) repeated as a North Coast Athletic Conference champion in 2 different events and helped a relay team win all-conference honors as Ohio Wesleyan won the NCAC championship meet, hosted by Denison University on Friday and Saturday in Granville.
Ohio Wesleyan won the meet with 175 points to 167 for Oberlin. Wittenberg finished third with 129 points, followed by Allegheny (67), Wooster (56), Kenyon (46½), DePauw (41½), and Denison (19). The conference championship was Ohio Wesleyan's first since 2016, when the Bishops won the last of 10 consecutive NCAC indoor track & field titles.
Robinson won her fourth straight NCAC title in the high jump, clearing 5-7¾ to lead a 1-2-3 Bishop sweep of the event. She also repeated as conference champion in the 400-meter dash, breaking the tape in 1:00.86. Robinson also teamed with junior Makayla Trebella (Girard), sophomore Zoe Price (Bellefontaine), and sophomore Julia Dickman (Marysville) for a second-place finish in the 1600-meter relay.
Junior Courtney Owens (Gahanna/Lincoln) also won an NCAC championship, taking the 60-meter hurdles in :09.04. Owens also placed fifth in the long jump. Last week, Owens won the NCAC pentathlon title with a school-record 3388 points.
The Ohio Wesleyan 800-meter relay team of Dickman, Price, senior Megan Sievers (Strongsville), and senior Jaliyah Atkinson (Columbus/Groveport Madison) won its event in 1:46.36. It marked the fourth straight year in which the Bishop 800 relay team brought back a conference title. Price, Sievers, and Atkinson helped the Bishops win in 2019; Sievers, Robinson, and Atkinson helped the 2018 Bishops win that event; and Robinson and Atkinson helped the 2017 relay team take the crown.
All-NCAC honors also went to sophomore Chase Patton (Delaware/Hayes), who placed second in the pole vault; sophomore Chayanne Conley (Galena, Ohio/Aurora), who was second in the weight throw; freshman Peyton Howell (Canton/GlenOak), who finished second in the high jump; Sievers, who finished third in the long jump; Trebella, who was third in the 800-meter run; and senior Tiffany Moore (Cleveland/Euclid), who placed third in the high jump.
Other standouts for the Bishops included junior Erin Sheehan (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge), who placed fourth in the pole vault; Dickman, who finished fourth in the 60-meter dash; freshman Katie Corbin (Findlay), who was fifth in the 800-meter run; junior Erin Ross (Middlefield/Cardinal), who finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles; sophomore Kylee McFarland (Granville), who placed sixth in the 800-meter run; Atkinson, who was sixth in the 60-meter dash; sophomore Kiara Harris (Bronx, N.Y./Pelham Preparatory Academy), who finished seventh in the long jump; and Price, who was seventh in the 60-meter hurdles.
On Friday, junior Ari McPheters (Reynoldsburg/Bishop Hartley) won All-NCAC honors with a second-place finish in the shot put. Sophomore Kiara Harris (Bronx, N.Y./Pelham Preparatory Academy) set a school record of 36-1¼ on the way to a fourth-place finish in the triple jump. Other standouts for the Bishops included sophomore Chayanne Conley (Aurora), who was sixth in the shot put; and senior Tiffany Moore (Cleveland/Euclid), who finished seventh in the triple jump. The Ohio Wesleyan distance medley relay team of junior Darcy Picker (Mount Gilead), freshman Lordina Orleans-Onyina (Rocky Hill, Conn.), sophomore Judy Larson (Cologne, Minn./Norwood Young America Central), and senior Erica VanHoose (Marysville) finished fourth.
Ohio Wesleyan head coach Kris Boey was named NCAC Coach of the Year in recognition of the Bishops' accomplishments. This is his 10th NCAC Coach of the Year citation in women's indoor track & field and his 30th overall NCAC Coach of the Year award.
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