INDIANAPOLIS – More provisional marks were set by various student-athletes around the league as Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week awards continued.
 
Two notable performances cracked the top 10 list of separate events that have been dominated for a long time by former national champions from the conference.
 
The Great Midwest Indoor Track & Field Championships are approaching as student-athletes take aim at meet records and all-conference honors inside Tiffin’s Heminger Center. The Dragons are defending conference champions in both genders.
 
Track Athlete of the Week
Andra Lehotay
Walsh
Senior
Middle Distance
Magnolia, OH (Sandy Valley HS)
 
The 800-meter run has been one of the most longstanding records in conference history with former two-time national champion Carsyn Koch (Johnson) reigning from Cedarville.
 
At the GVSU Big Meet on Friday, Lehotay clocked a 2:09.74 to remain the only other name besides Koch-Johnson in the conference record books.
 
The senior actually bumped herself out from the No. 10 slot that she recorded at last year’s GVSU Big Meet. On Saturday, the Walsh distance medley relay team also ran the fifth fastest time in conference history at 11:37.68.
 
She finished fifth overall and Lehotay now ranks seventh in Division II in the 800-meter run while three runners above her in the last also competed at the GVSU Big Meet. The Cavaliers DMR team also ranks fourth in the country, only behind GVSU, Colorado State-Pueblo and Simon Fraser.
 
Lehotay earned back-to-back conference track athlete of the week recognition after starring in the mile her last time out at the Akron Invitational.
 
Field Athlete of the Week
Simone Green
Findlay
Jumps
Freshman
Toledo, OH (Central Catholic HS)
 
Similarly, the dominance that former Ursuline star Janelle Perry has demonstrated in the long jump has been extremely difficult for student-athletes to break some of her standards.
 
Green is just a freshman and won the event at the Findlay Alumni Classic with a distance of 5.77m (18’ 11.25”).
 
Green is now tied for a rank of 13th in Division II and her distance ranks eighth all-time in conference history to only Perry.
 
Green also won the triple jump with a mark of 10.94m. She is the third freshman Oiler to receive track weekly awards for the current season.