INDIANAPOLIS –Tiffin swept both positional selections as Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week on Wednesday.
 
Track Athlete of the Week
Tatiyana Cooper-Laylor
Tiffin
Sprints
Sophomore
Yeadon, PA (Penn Wood HS)
 
Cooper-Laylor recorded a trio of runner-up performances at the Tiffin Dragon Open, her team’s first event of the new calendar year.
 
Cooper-Laylor matched her PR with a provisional qualifying 7.64 in the 60-meter dash finals, tying her own mark for the second fastest in conference history. She also ran a 7.64 in her last meet entered in, the Tiffin Alumni Open.
 
Cooper-Laylor had won the preliminary heat with a time of 7.69, another time that will go down as a top 10 mark.
 
Additionally, the sprinter showed off her speed in the 200-meter dash, finishing second in 25.96.
 
In the 4x400 relay, Tiffin and Cooper-Laylor finished second behind a foursome from Lake Erie by less than two seconds.
 
Field Athlete of the Week
Brenda Johnson
Tiffin
Throws
RS Senior
Bellefontaine, OH (Bellefontaine HS)
 
Johnson is now in sixth place for the conference records in the shot put, penciling her name for the second time at the Tiffin Dragon Open.
 
Johnson won the event against teammate (and conference record holder) Nicole Berry as the Dragons tandem both hit provisional qualifying marks.
 
Johnson’s sixth and final attempt from the throws cage resulted in a distance of 15.12m (49’ 7.25”).
 
Johnson has competed in three different indoor events this season so far and has competed in the shot put in all of them.