INDIANAPOLIS – Walsh and Tiffin collected a new set of Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week honors as announced on Tuesday.
 
Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
Andra Lehotay
Walsh
Middle Distance
Junior
Magnolia, OH (Sandy Valley HS)
 
Lehotay provisionally qualified for nationals in the 1,500-meter race and came dangerously close to matching the 2018 national championship time held by her former teammate Sarah Berger.
 
Lehotay did that at the Raleigh Relays over the weekend, clocking a 4:23.16 and finishing 14th in a race stacked with Division I runners. 
 
The junior beat out runners from Harvard, Duke, Princeton and Notre Dame, among many others for the impressive showing. She also ran in the 4x800 relay, and the Cavaliers clocked the third-fastest time in Great Midwest history with a 9:07.93.
 
The grouping of Bre Bakan, Megan Soehnlen, Alexa Leppelmeier and Lehotay, finished sixth overall in the relay race.
 
Lehotay’s time currently ranks second in Division II and sixth all-time in conference history. Between cross country and track and field, she has now won conference athlete of the week honors four times in less than a two-year span.
 
Women’s Field Athlete of the Week
Nicole Berry
Tiffin
Throws
Freshman
Pitsburg, OH (Monroe HS)
 
Berry established herself as a provisional qualifier in two different throwing events as the indoor champion Dragons competed at the Emory Invitational. 
 
Berry smashed the conference shot put record with an attempt of 15.56m (51’ 0.75”) on her sixth and final attempt from the ring in Atlanta. 
 
It represented considerable improvement from her first outdoor meet with 14.41m being her long throw. 
 
Berry is also now fifth all-time in conference outdoor history in the discus, leading a trio of freshmen around the league who currently have top marks in the event. She tossed the discus 45.79m (150’ 3”). 
 
Berry is now a three-time conference athlete of the week recipient as a freshman, twice in indoor and once for outdoor.