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CEDARVILLE, Ohio - With all eight member institutions competing, this year’s 2017 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships will be one to remember for quite some time.
Most of the established meet records will fall. The first national champion produced within the league will be on center stage. And the margin for error will be slim in the race for team trophies in the fifth annual offering of the meet.
Cedarville’s cozy confines in the Doden Field House will once again serve as host for the G-MAC student-athletes to display their talents. Seven teams will be competing in men’s events while all eight schools will battle it out on the women’s side.
Ohio Valley, Davis & Elkins and Malone, are all competing in their first G-MAC indoor track championships on Saturday. Waiting in the wings are talented track and field programs from Findlay, Hillsdale, Lake Erie, Ohio Dominican and Walsh, all officially joining the league in the 2017-18 academic year.
Records are meant to be broken and the G-MAC student-athletes have certainly done just that over the course of a short amount of time. If the indoor season is any indication, the outdoor season will be just as fun as the weather continues to already heat up towards the end of the month.
On Saturday morning, throwing events at the 2017 G-MAC Indoor Championships officially get underway at 10 a.m. EST before the running events will commence around 11:30 a.m. EST. The awards ceremony will wrap things up later in the afternoon with the all-conference selections announced.
The G-MAC will primarily be tracking student-athletes through Instagram and posting story content to the league’s account throughout the day; the social media handle can be followed @greatmidwestac.
Live results of meet updated in real time can be tracked
here. Official results will be posted to G-MACsports.com once they become available.
Events to Watch
Men’s 55, 60-Meter Dashes
A pair of underclassmen have been ripping through the indoor performance record books with Alderson Broaddus freshman speedster Todd Sekowski (who already has a home run with the baseball team) and Kentucky Wesleyan sophomore blur James Glenn. Glenn has claim to the 60-meter dash record while Sekowski is planted at the top of the 55-meter dash top times. Seeing these two go at it head-to-head will really be a treat.
Men’s Distance Events
Whether it be the 3K or mile run, some form of combination between Daniel Michalski (Cedarville), Brandon Laws (Trevecca Nazarene), 2016 G-MAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Year Ben Moroney (Trevecca Nazarene), Logan Rodgers (Trevecca Nazarene), should be competing. Michalski and Laws have both shattered conference indoor records in the mile and 3K, respectively, already this season. Add to the mix a group of talented distance runners from the other schools, which will include all-conference XC performers (like David Magda – D&E, George McCartney – MAL, among others), and these races will be tight down to the wire.
Men’s Weight Throw
As a record six-time G-MAC Indoor Field Athlete of the Week, Duke Taylor (Malone), there might not be another more intriguing event with the senior from East Canton entered in. Taylor is top-10 nationally in the event and continues to creep closer to the automatic-qualifying distance mark; well rested after sitting out the Pioneers’ last event at Kent State, we will be following this guy from his first attempt in the throws cage. Without seeing him in person and only viewing the numbers on paper, it’s difficult to truly appreciate the success he has had in his final season of competition.
Anything Carsyn Koch competes in…
The junior from Cedarville and pride of a quaint city in Washburn, Maine (population under 2,000), has nationally qualified for the DII indoor championships in the mile, 800m run and distance medley relay. As the reigning national indoor/outdoor 800m champ, it’s a joker’s wild type of guess before the heat sheets are finalized as to which events fans would be privileged to see her running in. The fifth-ranked Yellow Jackets (new USTFCCCA Poll) are stacked once again while gunning for their fourth league title in five tries.
Women’s Sprints/Hurdles
The Ursuline trio of Tea Fletcher, Nicole Yeargin and Janelle Perry, have taken over the short sprints/hurdles by storm. They are a big reason the Arrows broke through in the national rankings for the first time this year (at No. 16) and will factor considerably in the point totals as UC tries for its second league indoor title. Fletcher is a freshman, Yeargin is a freshman and Perry, just a sophomore, had a compelling case for G-MAC Track, Field and Freshman Athlete of the Year, consideration in 2016. Perry is a super-gifted athlete packed into a 5-7 frame who can win sprints, hurdles or jumps, depending on the entries.
Women’s Shot Put/Weight Throw
The dominant tandem of Kentucky Wesleyan’s Crystal Hopkins and Cornelia Thomas is back once again. Hopkins has ahold of the shot put and weight throw conference and league meet records while both have already provisionally qualified in each event. The fierce competition between the two is healthy and is just one of the many reasons the KWC track and field program has been on the rise in recent history.