INDIANAPOLIS – Now ranked 13th nationally as a program, Tiffin swept Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week that were announced on Wednesday afternoon.
 
The Dragons are getting ready to host the Great Midwest Indoor Championships starting on Friday. Tiffin’s men’s and women’s programs, both nationally ranked for the entire 2019-20 indoor season, are defending conference team champions.
 
Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
Tatiyana Cooper-Laylor
Tiffin
Sprints
Sophomore
Yeadon, PA (Penn Wood HS)
 
Cooper-Laylor had a very busy weekend at the Silverston Invitational while competing in the 60-meter dash, 200-meter dash and on the 4x400-meter relay squad.
 
She clocked a season PR of 7.57 in the 60m and heads into the indoor conference championships poised to break the meet record along with teammate Rajiah Andrews.
 
Cooper-Laylor would finish runner-up in the event after running a 7.60 in the prelims.
 
The sophomore also ran a 25.69 to finish fourth in the 200 and combined with Andrews, Alexya Peoples and Keyonna McGill, won the 4x4 relay with a time of 4:00.29.
 
Women’s Field Athlete of the Week
Marisa Gwinner
Tiffin
Jumps
Sophomore
Galion, OH (Galion HS)
 
The target is on Gwinner’s back after winning the national title in high jump as a freshman.
 
With the auto qualifying height for nationals at 1.75m, Gwinner is just one of four in the Division II ranks to have met that tough mark.
 
Gwinner remains in a tie for first as the top seed (1.76m) along with Franklin Pierce’s Paola Brena and Saginaw Valley State’s Cheyenne Williamson.
 
Gwinner has cleared 1.76m (5’ 9.25”) two times this season, including over the weekend at the Silverston Invitational. The other time was at the Tiffin Alumni Open back in mid December.