Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week (Dec. 10)

12.10.18

INDIANAPOLIS – Malone and Tiffin received Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week awards on Monday afternoon. 
 
Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week
Hannah Thompson
Malone
Distance
Senior
Canton, OH (GlenOak HS)
 
Thompson was a 5K NCAA indoor qualifier and 5K Great Midwest champ a year ago and she competed unattached in a handful of cross country events during the most recent fall season. 
 
Already owning the conference meet record, Thompson carved out one of the league’s best times with a new PR of 16:43.68 at the Grand Valley State Holiday Open. 
 
Thompson’s new best ranks third all-time in Great Midwest only behind former Hillsdale All-American Hannah McIntyre. 
 
Thompson ran against a handful of Division I student-athletes in Allendale. She finished ninth in the field of 54 total racers and the winning time was from Sydney Meyers of Eastern Michigan. 
 
Thompson provisionally qualified for nationals in the new calendar year and her 5K standard currently ranks third in all of NCAA Division II only behind Mount Olive’s Leah Hanle and Grand Valley State’s Hanna Groeber.
 
 
Women’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week
Kirsten Camp
Tiffin
Senior
Multis
Attica, OH (Seneca East HS)
 
Camp competed in the pentathlon at the Saginaw Valley State Open, recording a provisional qualifying point total and the fourth most points in conference history. 
 
The top three pentathlon point totals in the conference record books are held by former Ursuline national champ Janelle Perry. Camp scored 3,472 points with a balanced effort in the five-event showcase.
 
Camp won the high jump by clearing 1.67m (5’ 5.75”), a top 10 height clearance in Great Midwest history. 
 
She was the runner-up in the long jump and crossed the finish line in fourth of the 800-meter run. Camp also scored points in the shot put with a fifth-place finish and placed sixth in the 60-meter hurdles. 
 
Camp’s new point total officially ranks 14th in the multis events scored among NCAA provisional qualifiers.