INDIANAPOLIS - A pair of standout seniors from Walsh helped set a pair of new league records to earn selections of Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week.
Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
Sarah Berger
Walsh
Senior
Wadsworth, OH (Wadsworth HS)
Berger is the first of two Cavaliers to take home honors this week after an impressive run at the Bryan Clay Invitational in California, an event loaded with NCAA Division I competition and sponsored athletes.
Distance events have been Berger’s bread and butter throughout her career as she finished second at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championship this past fall and was an NCAA Indoor Track & Field All-American in both the mile (third) and DMR (second).
She also set the Great Midwest outdoor 5K record and has earned athlete of the week honors multiple times in 2017-18 for her accomplishments.
This past weekend at the Bryan Clay Invitational, she ran an automatic qualifying mark in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:06.10.
The current DII leader in the 1,500-meter run now ranks third in in the 3K steeplechase as well and is on her way to cementing her place as one of the most accomplished runners in conference history.
Women’s Field Athlete of the Week
Kaitlyn Barber
Walsh
Senior
Toledo, OH (Whitmer HS)
Barber is the second Walsh senior to be recognized this week after she competed at the Jesse Owens Track Classic on Saturday. She placed third in her only event of the pole vault behind two Division I competitors.
Barber is also coming off a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships in the pole vault for All-American status.
Her height of 3.97 meters set the conference mark for the season and also was the tallest clearance in Great Midwest history.
She has been going back-and-forth with Hillsdale’s Alexandra Whitford breaking the pole vault outdoor conference record this spring.
She is also now tied for fifth in all of Division II in the event with that height clearance.