Results (PDF)
Records (PDF)
2017 All-Conference Award Winners (PDF)
CEDARVILLE, Ohio - A total of 13 meet records were shattered during the 2017 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championships conducted at Cedarville University over the weekend.
Inclement weather tested the patience of the field as a lightning delay ended events early on Friday evening and overnight thunderstorms with more forecasted rain delayed Saturday's activities for several hours.
But the sun broke through the clouds and with minimal winds, all 20 events were completed flawlessly without complication followed by the traditional awards ceremony.
On the podium collecting team honors was host Cedarville. For the fourth consecutive year, the Yellow Jackets bested the field with a total of 253 points. Malone, the conference indoor team champion, was runner-up with 218.
All seven teams adjusted to a rolling schedule that started at 1 p.m. EST on Saturday. Many student-athletes were hustling to get to their next event after exerting energy on the track or in the field.
The fifth offering of the G-MAC Outdoor Championships simply didn't disappoint as the following standards were broken: 100, 200, 800, 10K, 110 hurdles, 400 hurdles, 4x1 relay, 4x4 relay, triple jump, discus, hammer and javelin.
The impressive times/distances established in the 100, 200, 4x1 relay, long jump, triple jump and javelin, also represented new overall conference bests.
The league's coaches voted for individual honors at the conclusion of the meet and those results followed the same script as the indoor season. Sweeping G-MAC Track (Ashton Dulin), Field (Duke Taylor) and Freshman (Ja'Vonne Brashears) Athlete of the Year awards, was Malone University. G-MAC Coach of the Year was swept for both genders by Cedarville's Jeff Bolender.
Dulin won the 400-meter hurdles and long jump while finishing runner-up in the 100 and 200-meter dashes and 110-meter hurdles. He set conference and championship records in both events he won and just 0.02 seconds separated him from another medal in a photo finish at the line of the 110-meter hurdles vs. Alderson Broaddus' Paris Vaughan.
Chants of "Duuuuuke" from his teammates came as the senior collected his hardware in front of his peers. Taylor stamped his impact again in the throws while winning discus and the hammer throw and finishing runner-up in shot put.
Brashears repeated as triple jump conference champion to replicate his indoor feat with a distance of 13.89m (45' 7"). He also finished third in the 100, 4x1 relay and long jump.
Cedarville won the 400 (Josiah Bernard), 800 (Daniel Michalski), 1,500 (Michalski), shot put (Jonathan Scouten) and javelin (Kevin Knox). Michalski and Knox each were able to break a conference record.
Trevecca Nazarene dominated the longer distances as Brandon Laws (3K steeplechase), Ben Moroney (5K) and Logan Rodgers (10K), all won outdoor titles.
Kentucky Wesleyan sophomore James Glenn earned his stripes again in the short sprints with 100, 200 and 4x1 relay conference titles. The Panthers' time in the 4x1 relay was a new league best at 42.40 seconds.
Glenn not only set championship meet records, but broke his own conference records in the 100 and 200-meter dashes.
AB was third in the team standings with 101 points as the Battlers won the 4x4 relay and Vaughan's lunge at the finish line to end the 110-meter hurdles gave his team 10 more points. Trevecca Nazarene was next in fourth with 60 points. First-year programs Davis & Elkins and Ohio Valley finished fifth and sixth and KWC, competing without reigning G-MAC Field Athlete of the Year Dallan Goldring, rounded out the team scoring.