WLU Women Place 3rd at MEC Championships
11 All-Conference citations for Hilltopper track teams
GLENVILLE, W.Va. – The West Liberty University women’s track team notched a third-place finish here Tuesday as the Mountain East Conference Track Championships wrapped up its three-day run at Morris Stadium on the campus of Glenville State College.
The Lady Hilltoppers held off a late charge from Charleston to place third in the final team standings with 125 points. Wheeling won the women’s title with 189 points while West Virginia Wesleyan was second at 153.5. Charleston (121) and Davis & Elkins (54.5) rounded out the top five. The West Liberty men placed seventh in the nine-team field.
One school record fell during Tuesday’s final day of competition. Hailey Carreon’s third-place time of 15.04 seconds in the women’s 100 hurdles shaved three-tenths of a second off her own school record set earlier this spring.
West Liberty collected 11 All-MEC Team berths during the post-tournament awards ceremony. Hannah Kemp was a first-team All-MEC honoree after winning the women’s 10,000 meters and picked up a pair of second-team All-MEC honors on Tuesday with runner-up finishes in the 1,500 and 5,000-meter runs.
Kelsi Hulit also earned multiple honors, picking up a first-team All-MEC award with a win in the women’s discus and getting honorable mention All-MEC with a third-place finish in the shot put.
Also earning second-team All-MEC recognition for the WLU women were Nichole Groseclose as runner-up in the 3,000 steeplechase and Aubree Story, who placed second in the high jump with a school- and meet-record leap of 5 feet, 5 inches. Carreon received honorable mention for her third-place finish in the 100 hurdles.
Adam O’Donnell was the lone first-team All-MEC honoree for the Hilltopper men after his runaway win in the decathlon with a school-record – and NCAA provisional qualifying – total of 6,343 points. Second-team All-MEC honors went to Michael Harriman with a meet-record runner-up finish at 800 meters, Danah Phillips with a meet-record runner-up finish in the 1500, and Gary Braithwaite with a runner-up finish in the javelin.
Following is a full list of West Liberty placers from the three-day meet:
TRACK AND FIELD
MEC Championships
(at Glenville, W.Va.)
Women
Team Scoring
1. Wheeling 189; 2. W.Va. Wesleyan 153.5; 3. WEST LIBERTY 125; 4. Charleston 121; 5. Davis & Elkins 54.5; 6. (tie) Glenville State, Frostburg State 51; 8. Concord 47; 9. Alderson Broaddus 23
West Liberty Final Placers
100: 6. Hailey Carreon 12.97
200: 6. Hailey Carreon 26.65
800: 4. Emily Louk 2:28.43
1500: 2. Hannah Kemp 4:57.55
5000: 2. Hannah Kemp 18:26.30
10000: 1. Hannah Kemp 38:22.33
100H: 3. Hailey Carreon *15.04
400H: 8. Alexis Slusser 1:14.69
3000 Steeple: 2. Nichole Groseclose 12:15.84
4x400 Relay: 8. West Liberty 4:31.25
Pole Vault: 7. Mackenzie Rine 2.85m
Triple Jump: 8. Aubree Story 9.87m
High Jump: 2. Aubree Story *#1.65m
Shot: 3. Kelsi Hulit 12.38m; 4. Kennedy Martin 11.76m; 8. Kaylee Savage 10.73m
Discus: 1. Kelsi Hulit 42.11m; 4. Lura Simons 34.36m; 5. Kennedy Martin 33.61m; 7. Sydney Jefferys 32.75m
Heptathlon: 5. Megan Hawthorne 3,037
*-school record
#-meet record
+-NCAA provisional mark
Men
Team Scoring
1. Charleston 193; 2. Wheeling 107; 3. Glenville State 95; 4. W.Va. Wesleyan 93.5; 5. Frostburg State 91; 6. Davis & Elkins 90; 7. WEST LIBERTY 80.5; 8. Concord 64; 9. Alderson Broaddus 5
West Liberty Final Placers
200: 8. Elian Lamar 22.51
800: 2. Michael Harriman #1:53.34; 4. Tavian Richardson 1:54.95
1500: 2. Danah Phillips #3:55.27
5000: 6. Danah Phillips 15:25.57
10000: 6. Philip White 31:56.50
3000 Steeple: 7. Jordan Hosey 9:45.01
4x100 Relay: 6. West Liberty 42.51
4x400 Relay: 8. West Liberty 3.33.75
Triple Jump: 6. Corey Wyttenbach 12.73m
High Jump: 5. Corey Wyttenbach 1.90m; 8. Dillon Meintel 1.85m
Long Jump: 5. Adam O'Donnell 6.71m
Shot: 5. Trevor Hoosier 13.74m
Hammer: 7. Grant Sproull 42.86m
Javelin: 2. Gary Braithwaite 45.24m; 4. Adam O'Donnell 43.00m; 5. Grant Sproull 42.29m; 7. John Taylor 39.72m
Decathlon: 1. Adam O'Donnell *+6,343
*-school record
#-meet record
+-NCAA provisional mark