INDIANAPOLIS – Walsh and Lake Erie each shared Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week recognition as announced on Monday. 
 
Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
Andra Lehotay
Walsh
Junior
Distance
Magnolia, OH (Sandy Valley HS)
 
Lehotay contributed to two of the conference’s best season times in the mile and the distance medley relay as Walsh participated in the SPIRE Midwest Open.
 
After having a strong cross country campaign with another NCAA Championship appearance, the junior clocked a 4:56.99 in the mile, a provisional-qualifying time.
 
Lehotay won the event with 84 total runners broken up into six different heats. She is the lone provisional qualifier in the mile from the Great Midwest this year.
 
In the distance medley relay, she combined with Alexa Leppelmeier, Jetaiya Smith and Megan Soehnlen, for a time of 12:02.90. 
 
The Cavaliers won the event and came close to breaking through with one of the top 10 performances in league history. 
 
Women’s Field Athlete of the Week
Madyson Plante
Lake Erie
Multis
Sophomore
Marlborough, MA (Marlborough HS)
 
At the Tom Hathaway Distance Classic, Plante won the pentathlon as she accumulated 3,376 points to provisionally qualify for nationals. 
 
She won the high jump and shot put competitions while placing second in the 60-meter hurdles, third in the 800-meter run and fourth in long jump. 
 
Her point total for all five events ranks fifth best in conference history. 
 
Plante also was dangerously close to breaking the conference high jump record, set earlier this year by Tiffin rookie Marisa Gwinner (1.73m). Plante cleared 1.72m (5’ 7.75”) for the second-best height clearance in Great Midwest history. 
 
Plante’s height is tied for the eighth best among all Division II student-athletes this year and her point total is currently ranked at No. 19 nationally.