INDIANAPOLIS – Talented student-athletes from Ohio Dominican and Walsh earned Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week accolades on Monday afternoon.
 
The Great Midwest Indoor Championships are less than two weeks away at Hillsdale’s Biermann Athletic Center. Provisional marks and conference records continue to fall as the regular season continued over the most recent weekend of competition.
 
The Great Midwest has a total of 20 provisional qualifiers for nationals, including a new name to the list with Mark Hadley (Walsh) and his time in the 5K. Fourteen different conference records have all been broken this season alone.
 
Men’s Track Athlete of the Week
Justin Carroll
Ohio Dominican
Senior
Berea, OH (Berea Midpark HS)
 
Carroll has been on the conference’s radar for some time with his improved times throughout the season, but his effort at the GVSU Big Meet was just too hard to overlook.
 
In three different events, the senior made his mark and his going to be a name to keep track of at the conference meet in the near future. He is ODU’s first track and field student-athlete selected for conference weekly honors.
 
Carroll, also a participants on the Panthers’ cross country squad, ran the 400, 800 and was a member of the 4x4-relay group in Allendale, Mich.
 
Carroll’s 400-meter dash time of 49.09 placed him fifth in the event, but it also marked the second-fastest time in conference history only behind Findlay’s George Effah (48.49).
 
He proceeded to record the league’s fastest time in the 800 for the current season with a time of 1:53.77, also the second-best standard in conference indoor history. His impressive weekend showing was capped with a 4x400-meter relay conference record as he, Amir Metts, Draven Bass and Avery Sumpter, were clocked at 3:17.40.
 
The previous 4x400 conference record was by Hillsdale earlier this year at the SVSU Holiday Open & Multis.
 
 
Men’s Field Athlete of the Week
Marcus Myers
Walsh
Senior
Grelton, OH (Patrick Henry HS)
 
The throws group in the Great Midwest is among the best in the nation with five different provisional qualifiers in the weight throw alone.
 
Two-time field athlete of the week Austin Combs of Findlay has grabbed headlines as an auto qualifier while underrated throwers continue to impress under the radar.
 
Myers, along with teammate Bradley Gallitz, are among that elite list as the nation’s best.
 
Myers had a season-high attempt of 19.63m (64’ 5”) at the Tiffin-hosted Dragon Grand Prix. It ranks as the third-best distance this season behind only Combs (21.38m) and Findlay’s Dequan Lovell (19.64m).
 
Myers won the event with 33 different throwers in the field.
 
Myers’ effort puts him in the top 10 nationally in all of NCAA Division II this season at ninth.