USTFCCCA Indoor T&F Women's Poll (Poll #2)

INDIANAPOLIS – A youthful program is attracting plenty of attention at Ursuline after the Arrows were ranked 16th in the new USTFCCCA Women’s Indoor Track & Field Poll released this week.
 
Ursuline went from unranked all the way to No. 16 in the second poll of the current indoor season.
 
The Arrows have turned heads with their work in the sprints. Freshmen Tea Fletcher and Nicole Yeargin have shattered conference records several times this year and have established times that rival the best in Division II so far this year.
 
Yeargin set G-MAC records with provisional marks in the 200 and 400-meter dashes this past weekend and 24.53 and 55.80. Nationally, Yeargin’s 200-meter dash time ranks third overall only to Chelsea Hayward’s 24.32 (Roberts Wesleyan) and Sunayna Wahi’s 24.16 (Adams State).
 
The auto-qualifying mark in the 200-meter dash is a flat 24 seconds.
 
In the 400, Yeargin ranks fifth nationally heading into the new weekend. Only two runners have cleared the auto-qualifying standard and she has provisionally qualified along with Cedarville’s Carsyn Koch in the event.
 
Fletcher shattered the previous-existing 55-meter dash record twice with a 7.28 and 7.30 in the prelims and finals.
 
Sophomore Janelle Perry recorded 3,689 points in the pentathlon at the SPIRE Midwest Indoor T&F Open. She broke her own record in the long jump at 5.79m and has some of the league’s fastest 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdle times registered.
 
Perry, Kayla Cool, Yeargin and Fletcher have been G-MAC Indoor Track or Field Athletes of the Week this season.