INDIANAPOLIS – Familiar faces earned Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week selections as announced on Tuesday.
 
Great Midwest women’s student-athletes continue to tear down records on a weekly basis to get ready for the conference meet and ultimately, hope to get the chance to showcase their skills at the NCAA Championships.
 
Six different runners have now provisionally qualified for nationals in the 3K and 5K races while four more have done so in the mile.
 
Hillsdale’s Hannah McIntyre was pronounced the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week last week as an auto qualifier. Both the Walsh and Hillsdale distance medley relay units have also provisionally qualified. In pole vault, Walsh’s Kaitlyn Barber remains an auto qualifier.
 
Track Athlete of the Week
Janelle Perry
Ursuline
Junior
Akron, OH (Firestone HS)
 
For the 10th time in her career, Perry was named athlete of the week for either the indoor or outdoor season with another eye-opening effort at the Hillsdale Wide-Track Classic.
 
Perry auto qualified for nationals with an 8.24 clocked in the 60-meter hurdles, the new top time in Division II this season. She also met the USA Indoor Championships ‘A’ qualifying standard that will be held in Albuquerque, N.M., Feb. 16-18.
 
Perry’s time is 0.16 of a second quicker than Courtney Nelson (Pittsburg St.) and Ashlea Maddex (Cal State Los Angeles).
 
Perry set a new school record and conference record with her finals run. Her preliminary time was the fifth-best in conference history.
 
Perry now owns indoor conference records in the 60-meter dash, 60-meter hurdles and long jump.
 
Field Athlete of the Week
Sugar Henry
Ursuline
Freshman
Upper Darby, PA (Upper Darby Senior HS)
 
Henry took down her own triple jump record at the Hillsdale Wide-Track Classic for her second conference weekly honor this season.
 
She cleared 11.33m (37’ 2.25”) to officially break her PR of 11.18m at the Bob Eubanks Open in mid-January. Henry broke a conference record that had been held since 2013, the longest standing standard to fall.
 
Henry finished second out of 17 total competitors at the Hillsdale Wide-Track Classic.