INDIANAPOLIS – Three different events on Friday and Saturday were completed as Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week were released on Tuesday morning.
 
Hillsdale hosted The Sequential Border War featuring Findlay and incoming 2021-22 member Ashland in the Biermann Center. Kentucky Wesleyan lifted the lid on its season by participating in the Samford Open down in Alabama. Malone, Ohio Dominican, Tiffin and Walsh, were all in the field at the Dragon Revolution Classic hosted by the Dragons.
 
Both men’s and women’s programs are working to be ready for the Great Midwest Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Cedarville on Feb. 26-27 in the Doden Field House.
 
Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week
Sophia Maeda
Hillsdale
Distance
Junior
Mead, CO (Mead HS)
 
Maeda helped the Chargers rumble to their first indoor women’s team conference title in 2019-20 and recorded a win in the 3K at the Hillsdale-hosted Sequential Border War over the weekend.
 
Maeda finished the event with a time of 10:06.41, holding off a number of familiar 2020 all-conference cross country runners, including Findlay’s Gabrielle Lawrence, who was runner-up.
 
While just shy of a provisional time, she is currently ranked 11th in Division II as she made her indoor season debut. It is also the top time in the conference in the season to date.
 
 
Women’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week
Morgan England
Findlay
Pole Vault
Sophomore
Bloomville, OH (Seneca East HS)
 
Make it back-to-back weeks for England, one of a few Findlay pole vault specialist standouts, as she improved and moved up in the record books following her Sequential Border War (Hillsdale/Ashland) performance.
 
Findlay went 1-2-3 in the event with England leading the way followed closely by Lindsey Kluesener and Meadow Cromer.
 
England cleared 3.96m (12’11.75”) to move into third all-time in the conference record books and is ranked second in the country only behind 4.16m by Pittsburg State’s Haven Lander.
 
England had just established a personal best that didn’t last very long at the YSU Indoor Invitational by soaring over the bar at 3.92m.