INDIANAPOLIS – With more provisional marks cleared, Walsh staked claim to both Great Midwest Athletic Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week honors that were announced on Monday afternoon.
 
Track Athlete of the Week
Alexa Leppelmeier
Walsh
Distance
Fifth-Year Senior
Wauseon, OH (Pettisville HS)
 
Leppelmeier and teammate Alex Bauer are the two conference runners to provisionally qualify for nationals in the mile so far this year.
 
They did so at the Youngstown State Indoor Invitational over the weekend and Walsh also split some of the roster the MVNU Chip Wilson Invite.
 
Leppelmeier was about a mile off of the conference championship record pace by clocking a 4:54.44 in the event.
 
It was her second event of the indoor campaign after also winning the 5K at Youngstown State in early December.
 
 
Field Athlete of the Week
Ndidiamaka Anaraodo
Walsh
Throws
Senior
Columbus, OH (Worthington Kilbourne HS)
 
Anaraodo has the current claim of the top-seeded thrower in shot put of all Division II after posting a personal PR at the Chip Wilson Invite.
 
The senior hurled the weighted ball at 15.48m to post the conference’s third-best distance of all time.
 
Anaraodo is also leading all provisional qualifiers in the event with second place through the weekend being Central Missouri’s Ashlan Burton at 15.23m.
 
Anaraodo collected her second weekly conference honor of the indoor season after posting provisional shot put and weight throw performances at the Youngstown State Icebreaker.