Two members of the Missouri S&T women's track and field team have been selected to the ESPN the Magazine academic all-district team for the recently completed 2008 season.

Juniors Taylor Hahn and Jamie Statler, both of whom compete in the pole vault and other sprint and jumping events, were selected to the second team for District VII.

Hahn, a chemistry major at Missouri S&T, repeated as the Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in the pole vault during the indoor season, then finished second at the conference's outdoor meet in May. During the course of the 2008 season, Hahn established new school records in the pole vault with marks of 11-8 indoors and 11-9 3/4 outdoors, which also made the provisional qualifying standard for the national meet.

The junior from Salem, Ill., who earned three GLVC "Athlete of the Week" awards during the year, is also a member of the Alpha Phi Omega and Psi Chi honor societies at S&T.

Statler, who hails from St. Charles., Mo., finished third in the pole vault during both the indoor and outdoor conference meets in 2008. She also earned GLVC "Athlete of the Week" honors during the season after her clearance of 11-5 3/4 made the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard. Statler also cleared 11-6 1/4 during the outdoor season.

A biological sciences major at S&T, Statler is a member of the Alpha Chi Sigma and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies.

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WALNUT, Calif. -- Tamara McCaskill finished in a tie for 11th place Saturday night in the women's high jump competition at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships at Mount San Antonio College.

McCaskill cleared 5-5 to end up tied for the 11th spot with a quartet of competitiors. She made her first two jumps of the night at 5-3 and 5-5, but was unable to clear the bar at 5-7.

She finished tied with UC San DIego's Linda Rainwater, Grand Valley State's Maegen Doyen, Ashland's Abby Kacsandi and Abilene Christian's Jessica Withrow.

Lincoln's Notoya Thompson took the national title in the event with a clearance of 5-9 1/4. She was one of three competitors to make the winning height, but had fewer misses in the event than the other two.

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Missouri S&T has announced the signing of five individuals to national letters of intent to compete on the track and field teams in the 2008-09 academic year.

The men's team signed two individuals -- Eric Fairbairn from Deer Creek High School in Edmond, Okla., and Elijah Thomas from Webster Groves High School -- while the women's team also added a trio of newcomers in Paige Kruse from Cuba High School, Colleen Conrad from St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio and Sadye Wichmunn from Kirksville High School.

Fairbairn, from Deer Creek High School in Edmond, Okla., competes in cross country and in the middle distance events, where he ran a time of 1:58.25 at this year's Oklahoma Class 5 State Championships in the 800-meters to take second place. During the cross country season, Fairbairn finished seventh at the Class 4 state meet, running a time of 16:59 in the state meet to help lead his team to the championship.

Thomas, from Webster Groves High School in Webster Groves, Mo., is a sprinter and jumper for the Statesmen, has posted a mark of 22-2 in the long jump this season after going 22-6 as a junior. As a junior, he placed seventh in the long jump at the Missouri Class 4 state meet. He also competed in the high jump and cleared six feet in the event during the 2007 season.

Conrad, from St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, has been a three-year state qualifier in Ohio, where she finished ninth in the state's Division II cross country meet as a senior with a time of 18:44 over five kilometers. She also holds her school's record in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs and has earned Academic All-Ohio honors in the 2007 season.

Kruse, from Cuba High School in Cuba, Mo., is an all-state performer in the high jump and 800-meters, with recent finishes of sixth in both events at the Missouri Class 2 state meet held over the past weekend in Jefferson City. Kruse had a time of 2:23.76 in the 800 and a clearance of 4-10 in the high jump at the state meet. She also competed in cross country and helped lead her team to a district championship in the 2007 season; she would later finish 30th at the state cross country meet.

Wichmann qualified for the Missouri Class 3 state meet in two events after placing second in the triple jump and fourth in the long jump at the sectional meet. She recorded a mark of 35-9 in the triple jump and 16-9 3/4 in the long jump to earn her spot in the state meet. Wichmunn also took third in the district meet in the triple jump and fourth in the long jump. She has been an all-district and all-conference performer in both events throughout her high school career.

The Miners signed three student-athletes earlier this year in Jason Barry from Osage Beach, Joe Skelton from Potosi and George Thomas from Marshfield to national letters of intent, while the Lady Miners had previously signed Kassie Osborne from Evansville, Ind., Central High School.

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Three members of the Missouri S&T track and field teams have earned berths to the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships, which will begin May 22 in Walnut, Calif.

Two pole vaulters, Jordan Henry and Peter Hollenbeck, along with women's high jumper Tamara McCaskill landed the berths to the meet that will take place at Mount San Antonio College.

Henry, the national runner-up in the pole vault during the indoor season, earned an automatic berth during the outdoor season with his best mark of 17 feet that he posted over the weekend at Emporia State. Henry's mark is the fifth-best in the nation heading into the meet; the top mark is 17-1 1/2 held by Abilene Christian's Landon Ehlers.

Hollenbeck comes in with a clearance of 16-3 1/2 that is tied for the 16th-best in Division II. He posted the mark during the course of his second place finish at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships on May 3.

The pole vault competition will take place on Saturday, May 24 at 6:55 p.m. Central time. It will be Henry's fourth appearance at the national meet and Hollenbeck's second; he made last year's field during the outdoor championships.

McCaskill's best performance of the year also came at Alabama when she cleared 5-7 in the high jump. Her marks rank in a tie for 15th heading into the meet and she will compete at 7:45 p.m. Central on May 24. This will be McCaskill's first appearance at the national meet.

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The Missouri S&T track and field teams each had six individuals selected to the Great Lakes Valley Conference's all-league squad for the outdoor season for their performances during the GLVC Outdoor Championships earlier this month.

The five individuals who won conference championships at the GLVC meet were first team selections, with the men's team being represented by league champions Kal-El Waters-Jones, Joffroi Holcombe, Jordan Henry and Brandon Etzold and the women's team by Leah Morehead. In addition, Peter Hollenbeck was a first-team selection on the men's side after finishing second in the pole vault with a mark that exceeded the NCAA provisonal qualifying standard.

Waters-Jones won the triple jump, Holcombe won the 10,000-meters, Henry took the title in the pole vault and Brandon Etzold claimed the title in the 800-meters. Morehead led a sweep of the top three spots in the women's pole vault by taking the title in that event and was one of the recipients of the league's "Freshman of the Year" award; Etzold shared the men's top freshman honor.

Henry and Hollenbeck will represent the Miners at the NCAA Division II Championships next week in Walnut, Calif., while Tamara McCaskill, one of five Lady Miners named to the second team, will be the Lady Miners' lone competitor in California at the national meet in the high jump.

McCaskill was joined on the second team by pole vaulters Taylor Hahn and Jamie Statler, middle distance runner Kierra Handley and sprinter Katie Bruce.

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GLVC Freshmen of the Year Leah Morehead & Brandon Etzold

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Missouri S&T got a sweep of the top three spots in the pole vault to highlight its showing at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships over the weekend at Southern Illinois Edwardsville.

Leah Morehead, who was the co-recipient of the GLVC's "Freshman of the Year" award, won the event with a mark of 11-8 that broke the conference record. The previous holder of the mark, Taylor Hahn, took second with a clearance of 11-2 1/4 and Jamie Statler was third at 10-8 1/4.

S&T got a third place showing from Tamara McCaskill in the high jump as she cleared 5-3 1/4 and fourths from Katie Bruce in the 400-meters with a time of 59.48 seconds in Saturday's finals and Kierra Handley in the 800-meters in a season-best 2:19.44.

Sarah Zaremba also scored points for the Lady Miners in the pole vault with a clearance of 10-2 1/2, while Hannah Terwelp was seventh in the shot put with a mark of 38-2 1/4 as was Hillary Griffith in the 100-meters in 12.49 seconds. Griffith was also eighth in the 200-meters in 26.35 seconds along with Maggie Mawhiney in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:11.52

Both of S&T's relay teams had fourth place finishes, with the 4x100-meter team posting a time of 48.81 seconds and the 4x400 quartet posting a mark of 4:02.40. S&T had the lead in the latter relay at the midway point thanks to a strong second leg by freshman Aubrey Moore.

S&T finished sixth in the final team standings with 58 points; SIUE won the meet with a total of 323 points in its final meet before it reclassifies to NCAA Division I.

Complete results

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JOPLIN, Mo. -- With one week to go before the conference meet, Jordan Henry locked up a spot in the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a career-best performance in the pole vault Friday at Missouri Southern.

Henry, a junior who finished as the national runner-up during the indoor season in the event, cleared 16-8 at the Bill Williams/Bob Laptad Open to go beyond the automatic qualifying standard and earn a spot in the national meet next month in Pomona, Calif. His mark, wihch also set the Missouri S&T school record, has been topped by only two individuals in DIvision II this season heading into the weekend.

Henry was one of three Miners to finish among the top 10 in the pole vault Friday. Peter Hollenbeck was fifth with a clearance of 15-11 and Jared Anders, who has already provisionally qualified, was 10th with a mark of 15-5 3/4.

The Miners got third place finishes from Thomas Green in the 1,500-meters in 4:07.71 and Brandon Etzold in the 800-meters with a mark of 1:55.54, the same event where Paul Roland took eighth in 2:00.48.

Ian Packard was fourth in the 400-meters with a time of 50.22 seconds, while Brian Kluge had a time of 52.82 in that event.

The women's team had five competitors in Joplin Friday, with three of them placing in the pole vault. Taylor Hahn and Jamie Statler both cleared the 11-6 1/4 mark to finish sixth and seventh, respectively, while Leah Moreland was eighth with a mark of 11-0 1/4. Kierra Handley finished sixth in the 800-meters with a time of 2:20.63.

Missouri S&T will have two individuals -- Joffroi Holcombe and Brendan Smith -- taking part in the Hillsdale Invitational Saturday in Michigan, then the teams will gear up for the GLVC Outdoor Championships that begins Friday at Southern Illinois Edwardsville.

Complete results from Missouri Southern

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Jamie Statler

The Missouri S&T women's track and field team recorded a number of high finishes, including four first place efforts, at the fourth annual Dewey Allgood Invitational held Saturday at S&T's Allgood-Bailey Stadium.

The first place finishes came from Hillary Griffith in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.77 seconds, Kierra Handley in the 800-meters in a seasonal-best time of 2:19.66, Tamara McCaskill in the high jump at 5-5 1/4 and Jamie Statler in the pole vault, where she won with a mark of 11-4 1/4 with fewer misses than the other three that cleared that height.

S&T also had four second place efforts, which were recorded by Kendra Lewis in 100-meters in 12.95 seconds, Aubrey Moore in the 200-meters in 26.14 seconds, Leah Morehead in the pole vault at 11-4 1/4, Sarah Stach in the long jump with a mark of 15-11 1/2 which was her personal best in the event.

Third place finishes were posted by Moore in the 100-meters in 13.13 seconds and 400-meters in a season-best 59.29, Griffith in the 200-meters in 26.28, Rebecca McNally in the 3,000-meters in a personal-best 11:45.97, Maggie Mawhiney in the 100-hurdles in 17.95 seconds and Hannah Terwelp in the shot put with a season-best mark of 40-4 3/4.

Lewis had a time of 26.71 in the 200-meters to come in fourth, as did Katie Bruce in the 800-meters in 2:27.14, Taylor Hahn in the pole vault at 11-4 1/4, McCaskill in the long jump at 15-7 1/2 and Terwelp in the hammer throw at 127-8, while fifths were posted by Sarah Stach in the 200-meters in 28.85 seconds, Samantha Schussele in the 800 in 2:30.38, Mawhiney in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:17.26 and Sarah Zaremba in the pole vault at 10-4 1/4.

The Lady Miners' 4x100-meter relay team took second in a seasonal-best time of 48.81 seconds, while the 4x400-meter relay team posted a time of 4:10.73.

Complete results

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The Missouri S&T track and field teams will host the fourth annual Dewey Allgood Invitational Saturday at Allgood-Bailey Stadium, with five teams coming to town to join S&T as well as other individuals who plan to participate in the meet.

The Miners and Lady Miners will compete with Truman State, Lincoln, Lindenwood, Evangel and Hendrix Saturday, with a handful of unattached competitors also expected to be in the field.

Missouri S&T currently has four provisional qualifiers for the NCAA Division II Championships, with Jared Anders having made the mark in the pole vault and Heath Groom in the javelin throw on the men's side and Taylor Hahn reaching the standard in the pole vault and Tamara McCaskill in the high jump for the women.

The meet will start at 11 a.m. with five field events, including the aforementioned men's javelin and women's pole vault. The men's pole vault competition that will include Anders and Jordan Henry, the national runner-up in the indoor pole vault at the 2008 NCAA Championships, will start at 1 p.m.. The women's high jump that McCaskill will compete in starts at 2:30 p.m.

The track events start at 1 p.m. with the preliminary rounds of the men's 100-meter dash, followed by the men's steeplechase and 400-meter relays for the men and women. All of the events will take place at Allgood-Bailey Stadium except for the hammer and discus throws, which will be contested at the Missouri S&T intramural fields by Fraternity Row.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Field Events
11:00a.m. Men’s Hammer Throw
Men’s Long Jump (Women to Follow)
Men’s Javelin (Women to Follow)
Women’s Shot Put (Women Hammer to Follow)
Women’s Pole Vault
1:00p.m. Men’s Pole Vault
Men’s Shot Put
2:30p.m. Men’s Triple Jump (Women to Follow)
Women’s High Jump (Men to Follow)
Women’s Discus (Men to follow)

Track Events
1:00 p.m. Men’s 100 Meter Prelims
1:15 p.m. Men’s 3000 Steeple
1:40 p.m. Women’s 4 x 100 Meter Relays
Men’s 4 x 100 Meter Relays
1:55 p.m. Women’s 1500 Meter Run
Men’s 1500 Meter Run
2:25 p.m. Women’s 100 Meter Hurdles Finals
Men’s 110 Meter Hurdles Finals
2:35 p.m. Women’s 3000 Meter Run
2:50 p.m. Women’s 400 Meter Dash
Men’s 400 Meter Dash
3:15 p.m. Women’s 100 Meter Dash Finals
Men’s 100 Meter Dash Finals
3:25 p.m. Women’s 800 Meter Run
Men’s 800 Meter Run
3:50 p.m. Women’s 400 Hurdles
Men’s 400 Hurdles
4:15 p.m. Women’s 200 Meter Dash
Men’s 200 Meter Dash
4:30 p.m. Men’s 5000 Meter Run
5:00 p.m. Women’s 4 x 400 Relay
Men’s 4 x 400 Relay

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EMPORIA, Kan. -- Missouri S&T had several of its individuals record finishes in the top ten in events Sunday as the Lady Miners finished eighth in the team standings at the Papa John's Division II Challenge at Emporia State.

Tamara McCaskill had the highest finish among the Lady Miner competitors in the meet with a second place finish in the high jump, clearing 5-5 but falling short in the jumpoff for the title with Central Missouri's Samantha Frisbie.

Kierra Handley posted a third place finish in the 800-meters with a time of 2:21.74, while Jamie Statler had a third in the pole vault with a mark of 10-11 3/4, the same height cleared by Leah Moreland in her fourth place effort in the event (Statler had fewer misses to finish third).

The Lady Miners also got a fifth place finish from Katie Bruce in the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.38, while Aubrey Moore was seventh in the event in 1:01.11. Later in the day, Moore finished eighth in the 200-meters in 26.03 seconds.

Kendra Lewis finished eighth in the 100-meters with a time of 12.64 in the finals after going 12.60 in the preliminary round, while Maggie Mahwhiney was eighth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:12.58

Hannah Terwelp placed eighth in the hammer throw with a mark of 121-3 and also placed ninth in the shot put with a mark of 37-1 1/4.

Sarah Zaremba cleared 10-feet in the pole vault to finish tenth. S&T's 4x100-meter relay team came in third place with a time of 49.48 seconds and its 4x400-meter relay team was sixth in 4:09.18.

The next competition for the Lady Miners comes up on Saturday when they host the Dewey Allgood Invitational at Allgood-Bailey Stadium. The meet will get underway at 11 a.m.

Results from Emporia State

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Lady Miner track and field team had two first place finishes Saturday in the Big Bear Invitational hosted by Missouri State University.

The Missouri S&T victories came from Hannah Terwelp, who captured first in the hammer throw with a school record mark of 129-7 and Jamie Statler, who posted a personal-best 11-5 3/4 in the pole vault to win that event over three teammates.

Statler beat out Leah Moreland, who also cleared that height, on the basis of fewer misses. The third place finisher was Taylor Hahn with a clearance of 10-6, while Sarah Zaremba took fourth at 10-feet.

Tamara McCaskill, who made an NCAA provisional qualifying mark in the high jump a week ago, cleared 5-5 3/4 Saturday to finish fifth behind four Division I competitors. McCaskill also took fifth in the long jump with a mark of 15-10 1/4.

Maggie Mahwiney finished sixth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 17.29 seconds and in the 400-meter hurdles as well in 1:10.52, while Sarah Stach was seventh in the long jump with a mark of 15-3 1/2.

Kendra Lewis ran a 12.76 in the 100-meters and Aubrey Moore posted a mark of 12.94 in that event; Moore also ran a 26.07 in the 200-meters.

Missouri S&T got second place finishes from both of its relay teams Saturday, with the 4x100-meter relay team taking second in the competition with a time of 49.40 seconds and the 4x400 group finishing in 4:07.69.

The Lady Miners will send competitors to the Papa John's Division II Challenge next Saturday at Emporia State.

Complete results from Missouri State

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The Missouri S&T women's track and field team has been recognized by the Great Lakes Valley Conference as one of the recipients of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's Sportsmanship Awards for the 2007-08 winter season.

The SAAC Sportsmanship Award is determined by votes of the 14 GLVC member institutions’ campus SAACs. The committees select their top three choices in each sport and base their decision on their view of sportsmanship. The GLVC sponsors the award in each of the league’s 17 championship sports.

The Lady Miner track and field team earned the school's first such award since the university became a member of the conference. During the recently completed indoor season, Missouri S&T had a fourth place finish as a team at the conference meet and had five individuals earn All-GLVC honors, including a conference champion as Taylor Hahn won the pole vault competition.

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Missouri S&T's Tamara McCaskill was a two-time selection as the Great Lakes Valley Conference "Player of the Week" duiring the 2007-08 basketball season -- and now she has earned a similar honor in track and field.

McCaskill was named as the GLVC's "Athlete of the Week" for the field events in track and field after tying the school record in the high jump with a performance that also made the NCAA provisional qualifying mark.

She cleared the bar at 5-7 during the Alabama Relays over the weekend to finish second in the event. Her metric mark of 1.70 meters exceeded the provisional standard of 1.68 meters in the event as she took second to South Alabama's Nicole Knox.

The Lady Miners will compete this weekend at the Big Bear Invitational at Missouri State University in Springfield.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The Lady Miner track and field team got a second NCAA Division II provisional qualifier Saturday as Tamara McCaskill made the mark in the high jump at the Alabama Relays.

McCaskill cleared 1.70 meters, or 5-7, in the event to surpass the provisional mark, of 1.68 meters to take second place in the event to South Alabama's Nicole Knox who won it with a mark of 5-8 3/4.

McCaskill tied the school record in the event with her 5-7 performance and joins Taylor Hahn as the Lady Miners' provisional qualifers in the early stages of the 2008 outdoor season.

The Lady Miners also got a fifth place finish from Jamie Statler in the pole vault with a mark of 10-11 3/4, while Leah Morehead and Sarah Zaremba were ninth and tenth, respectively, with clearances of 10-feet.

On Saturday, Rebecca McNally finished 15th in the 5,000-meters with a time of 20:41.68 and Dana Narconis was three spots behind her in 20:52.54.

Aubrey Moore, who ran a 59.65 in the 400-meters Sunday, had a time of 12.88 seconds and Kendra Lewis a time of 12.98 seconds in the 100-meter dash; Moore also had a 26.29 and Lewis a 26.31 in the 200-meters. Hillary Griffith also had a sub-27 second time in the event at 26.76 seconds as did Katie Bruce at 26.98 seconds.

Kierra Handley posted a time of 2:22.68 in the 800-meters, while Samantha Schussele came in at 2:29.51 and Teresa Conley in 2:29.94 in the event. Hannah Terwelp posted a mark of 108-1 in the hammer throw.

Saturday's results from Alabama

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Jared Anders

Taylor Hahn

Missouri S&T had two of its pole vaulters reach the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard in its first outdoor meet of the season Friday and those performances have landed each of them the Great Lakes Valley Conference "Athlete of the Week" award.

Jared Anders, who cleared 16-2 3/4 to win the pole vault competition at Washington University and Taylor Hahn, who set the women's school record at 11-9 3/4 in the same meet, were honored by the GLVC Tuesday for their efforts.

Anders, a junior from Quincy, Ill., cleared the same height at Washington University as he did a week earlier in the process of finishing seventh at the NCAA Divison II Indoor Championships. His mark of 16-2 3/4 was good enough to make the provisional mark and win the competition in the meet.

Hahn also reached the provisional standard in a winning performance as she broke her own school record by two inches. A junior from Salem, Ill., Hahn was competing for the first time since winning the GLVC indoor title in the pole vault.

The Miners and Lady Miners will compete this weekend in the Alabama Relays in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Missouri S&T's Taylor Hahn reached the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark in the pole vault for the outdoor season Friday during the team's inaugural outdoor meet of the season at Washington University.

Hahn, a junior, broke the outdoor school record in the event with a mark of 11-9 3/4 in the pole vault, which matches the NCAA Division II provisional mark. Hahn reached the provisional mark during the recently completed indoor season as well.

The Lady Miners had three of the top five finishers in the pole vault Friday, as Jamie Statler was second at a career-best 11-5 3/4 and Leah Moreland came in fifth at 10-6.

Kendra Lewis recorded a second place effort in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.53 seconds and Hillary Griffith was third in the event in 12.60 seconds. Kierra Handley also had a second place finish Friday in the 800-meters with a time of 2:21.56

Hannah Terwelp took third in the hammer throw with a mark of 119-1; she was also sixth in the shot put later in the day with a mark of 35-6 1/2. Sarah Stach took fourth in the long jump with a mark of 14-11 1/4 as did Teresa Conley in the 1,500-meters in 5:28.51

Fifth place finishes came from Samantha Schussele in the 800-meters in 2:35.63, Aubrey Moore in the 200-meters in 26.04 seconds and Maggie Mawhiney in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.76 seconds.

The Lady Miners' 4x100-meter relay team posted a time of 49.54 seconds and the 4x400-meter relay team had a time of 4:14.15.

The Lady Miners, who finished third as a team at the meet, will compete in the Alabama Relays next weekend in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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A number of individuals from the Missouri S&T track and field teams have earned all-conference honors after their performances over the weekend at the Great Lakes Valley Conference championships.

Both the men's and women's team had a conference champion at the meet in the pole vault -- Jordan Henry from the men's squad and Taylor Hahn from the women's team -- and as a result, both were selected to the All-GLVC first team for their efforts. Henry cleared 16-0 3/4 at the meet to win the men's pole vault, while Hahn broke the conference and school record with her clearance of 11-8.

The men's team had six individuals earn second team honors -- pole vaulter Jared Anders, triple jumper Kal-El Waters-Jones (both had second place finishes), sprinter Michael Wilson, pole vaulter Peter Hollenbeck and distance runners Brendan Smith and Joffroi Holcombe, all of whom placed third in their events.

Four members of the Lady Miners were second team selections -- pole vaulters Jamie Statler and Leah Moreland, who tied for third in the event; sprinter Aubrey Moore and weight thrower Hannah Terwelp, who set a school record in that event Saturday.

The Miners and Lady Miners each finished fourth in the meet.

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Taylor Hahn

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. -- Taylor Hahn repeated as the pole vault champion in the Great Lakes Valley Conference by breaking the school record she set a week ago in the event, clearing 11-8 to also better her NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard.

Hahn, who won the event by nearly a foot over four others that cleared 10-8 1/4, helped the Lady Miners finish fourth as a team at the GLVC Indoor Championships Saturday afternoon.

The Lady Miners had four of the top six finishers in the pole vault, as Jamie Statler took third at 10-8 1/4, Leah Moreland fourth at the same height and Sarah Zaremba sixth at 10-2 1/2.

S&T's 4x400-meter relay team of Katie Bruce, Aubrey Moore, Kierra Handley and Hillary Griffith captured the second place spot and all-league honors in that event with a time of 4:04.99, holding off Lewis by less than a second to take the runner-up position.

The Lady Miners also got a fourth place finish from Moore in the 400-meters with a time of 59.44 seconds -- only 0.16 seconds off the school record -- and a seventh place showing in that event from Bruce in 59.81 seconds.

Handley also scored for the Lady Miners on an individual basis in the 800-meters with an eighth place effort in a season-best 2:23.94 as did Hannah Terwelp in two events, the weight throw where she was third with a S&T record mark of 49-9 and in the shot put where she was seventh at 36-7 3/4.

Southern Illinois Edwardsville, competing for the last time in the indoor meet before its move to NCAA Division I, swept the team title by a convincing margin.

Complete results from GLVC Championships

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Taylor Hahn

Jamie Statler

Two Missouri S&T pole vaulters who set a school record in the event and reached the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard in the process are the co-recipients of the Great Lakes Valley Conference's "Field Athlete of the Week" in women's track and field.

Juniors Taylor Hahn and Jamie Statler, both of whom cleared 11-5 3/4 -- the provisional qualifying standard -- Friday at the Central Missouri Classic in Warrensburg, Mo. The clearances that established the new school record in the event earned them each a third place finish in the event.

Hahn is from Salem, Ill., while Statler hails from Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Mo. They currently boast the top mark in the GLVC this season and will head to Crawfordsville, Ind., Saturday for the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships.

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- Missouri S&T saw two of its pole vaulters reach the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard Friday night during the competition at the Central Missouri Classic.

Taylor Hahn and Jaime Statler both cleared the 11-5 3/4 mark -- breaking the school record in the process -- to become the first Lady Miners this season to reach an NCAA qualifying standard. Hahn finished third in the event Friday while Statler placed fourth.

Two other pole vaulters, Leah Moreland and Sarah Zaremba, also recorded top 10 finishes as Moreland was fifth at 10-6 and Zaremba placed eighth with that same clearance.

The only other S&T competitor in action Friday, Kierra Handley, finished seventh in the 800-meters with a mark of 2:23.87.

The Lady Miners will take part in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships March 1 in Crawfordsville, Ind.

Results from Central Missouri

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JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Missouri S&T women's track team has seven finishes in the top ten Saturday -- most of which set or matched a seasonal best -- on the final day of the Radio Shack Invitational at Missouri Southern State University.

The top S&T finishes Saturday came from the pole vaulters, as Jaime Statler placed second with a clearance of 11-1 3/4 and Taylor Hahn who cleared the same height to take third (based on more misses in the competition). The clearances matched the seasonal best for both Statler and Hahn.

The Lady Miners also got a sixth place finish from Leah Morehead in the event at a mark of 10-8 and an eighth place effort from Sarah Zaremba at 10-2.

Katie Bruce came in fifth place in the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.06, with Aubrey Moore finishing two spots behind her in 1:00.51. Moore was also 14th in the 60-meter dash in 8.19 seconds. Meanwhile, Kierra Handley took sixth in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:30.55.

Hannah Terwelp came in 11th place in the shot put with a mark of 38-2 while Rebecca McNally finished 15th in the 3,000-meters in 11:54.49. The Lady Miners' 4x400-meter relay team placed seventh in the event with a time of 4:09.22, a drop of nearly 11 seconds from their previous best time of the season.

The Lady Miners' next competition will be at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships, slated to take place March 1 in Crawfordsville, Ind.

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JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Lady Miner track and field team had a handful of competitors in action Friday at the Radio Shack Invitational at Missouri Southern State University.

The top finish of the night was recorded by Hannah Terwelp, where she improved on her school record mark in the event with a seventh place finish. Terwelp posted a mark of 48-2 in the event Friday.

Kendra Lewis finished ninth in the 200-meters with a time of 26.78, while Aubrey Moore was 11th in 26.95. The Lady Miners also got times of 27.32 from Katie Bruce and 27.40 from Hillary Griffith in the event.

Sarah Stach finished 12th in the long jump with a seasonal-best mark of 16-2 1/2, while Rebecca McNally posted a time of 11:54.49 in the 3,000-meters to finish 14th.

The meet at Missouri Southern will conclude Saturday.

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JACKSONVILLE, Ill. -- The Lady Miner track and field team had nine individuals post finishes among the top 10 -- including some seasonal high marks and a school record mark by sophomore Hannah Terwelp -- at the Blue Classic Saturday at Illinois College.

Terwelp broke the school record in the weight throw that she set nearly a month ago at Eastern Illinois, with her throw of 47-4 good enough to place fourth in the overall competition.

Taylor Hahn and Jamie Statler shared the highest finish among the Lady Miners at the meet, with the duo tying for second in the pole vault with a clearance of 10-9 3/4. Leah Moreland cleared that height as well, but finished fourth due to more misses, while Sarah Zaremba was fifth at 10-4.

Kierra Handley had a third place showing in the 800-meters with a time of 2:24.13, a three-second improvement over her best seasonal time in the event.

Sarah Stach had a ninth place showing in the long jump with a mark of 15-11 1/2, while Kendra Lewis took ninth as well in the 200-meters with a time of 26.93; she also finished 11th in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.60 seconds. Aubrey Moore placed 10th in the 400-meters with a mark of 1:00.62 and Maggie Mawhiney was 11th in the 55-meter hurdles in 9.82 seconds.

Hillary Griffith was 12th in the 200-meters in 27.32 as was Samantha Schussele in the 800-meters in 2:36.49 and Terwelp in the shot put with a mark of 34-9 1/2.

The Lady Miners will compete next weekend at the Radio Shack Invitational at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Taylor Hahn finished in a tie for fourth place in the pole vault to head the Lady Miner performances Friday at the Indiana Relays.

Hahn cleared 11-1 3/4 in the event to finish in a tie for fourth with three other competitors. She was one of three MIssouri S&T performers to finish among the top 10 in the event, as Jamie Statler tied for seventh with a clearance of the same height (finishing lower in the standings due to more misses) and Sarah Zaremba was tenth at 10-6.

Also on Friday, Katie Bruce posted a time of 1:00.56 in the 400-meters while Aubrey Moore had a time of 1:01.95 in that event. Kierra Handley had her best time of the season in the 800-meters of 2:27.38.

The meet concludes Saturday.

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- The Missouri S&T women's track team gpt a strong performance from sophomore Katie Bruce Friday night to highlight its performance at the Central Missouri Invitational.

Bruce won the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.72 and added a third place showing in the 200-meters in 27.32. She also finished eighth in the 60-meters with a mark of 8.29 seconds and was part of S&T's 4x440-yard relay team that took third.

The Lady Miners also had a second place showing from Samantha Schussele in the 80-meters with a time of 2:36.88 while Kierra Handley finished in fifth place in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:31.34. Kendra Lewis placed sixth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.33 in the finals after she posted a mark of 8.25 in the preliminary round.

The Lady Miners also got a eighth-place showing from Hannah Terwelp in the weight throw with a mark of 41-5; she also placed 10th in the shot put with a mark of 33-10 1/4.

Hillary Griffith finished eighth in the 200-meters in 28.05 and ninth in the 60-meters with a time of 8.36 seconds, while Rebecca McNally was 10th in the 3,000-meters in 11:57.83, just ahead of teammate Teresa Conley's mark of 12:02.85.

S&T's 4x440-yard relay team recorded a time of 4:20.21 for its third place finish.

On Saturday, the Lady Miners had three finishers among the top seven in the pole vault competition at the Fazoli's/Baymont Inn Invitational at Missouri Southern. Taylor Hahn finished third in the event with a clearance of 10-11 3/4, while Jamie Statler came in sixth at 10-6 and freshman Leah Moreland was tied for seventh at 10-feet.

The Lady Miners will take part in the Indiana University Invitational next weekend in Bloomington, Ind.

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Complete results from Missouri Southern

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CHARLESTON, Ill. -- The Lady Miner track and field team had a trio of top ten finishes Saturday in the Eastern Illinois Invitational and also saw a school record fall along the way.

Taylor Hahn had the top finish among the Missouri S&T competitors, finishing fourth with a mark of 10-11 3/4 in the pole vault, while freshman Leah Moreland was eighth after clearing 10-feet in the event. The third top ten finish came courtesy of Kierra Handley, who came in ninth place in the 800-meters with a time of 2:31.31.

The school record mark came from Hannah Terwelp in the weight throw, as her mark of 46-4 3/4 broke her own record by more than a foot. She also had a throw of 35-8 1/2 in the shot put.

The Lady Miners also got an 11th-place finish from Sarah Zaremba in the pole vault with her mark of 10-feet, while getting a 12th-place finish from Samantha Schussele in the 1,000-meters in 3:25.35. Katie Bruce finished 13th in the 400-meters with a time of 1:01.17, one spot ahead of Aubrey Moore who ran her race in 1:01.24. Hillary Griffith had a time of 27.79 in the 200-meters.

The Lady Miners will have competitors at meets next weekend at Central Missouri and Arkansas.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri S&T's track season got underway Friday night with the Lady Miners posting six finishes among the top ten in various events at the Missouri Invitational.

Taylor Hahn had the top finish for an S&T competitor by taking second in the pole vault with a mark of 10-6. She was one of three Lady Miners to finish among the top five in the event, as Jamie Statler came in third with a clearance of 10-feet and Sarah Zaremba took fourth with the same height.

The Lady Miners also got a sixth-place finish from Katie Bruce in the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.19, while seventh place showings were also posted by Kierra Handley in the 800-meters in 2:31.26 and Hannah Terwelp in the weight throw with a mark of 41-9 1/4.

Freshman Samantha Schussele finished 11th in the 800-meters with a time of 2:47.18 in the meet that consisted of schools from both the NCAA Division I and II levels.

S&T will return to the track next Saturday when it takes part in the Eastern Illinois Invitational in Charleston, Ill.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Lady Miner cross country team competed Saturday at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships, with Kierra Handley posting the top finish among the UMR contingent.

Handley placed 49th in the six-kilometer race with a time of 24:48, while Dana Narconis was 63rd in 25:46. Rebecca McNally ended up in 68th place overall in 26:06 and Samantha Schussele rounded out the Lady Miner group in 85th in 27:48.

With only four runners in competition, the Lady Miners did not have enough runners to have a team score. A team must have five runners complete the race in order to have a team score and the Lady Miners' fifth runner was unable to compete in the race Saturday.

Wisconsin-Parkside, which had the individual winner in Jessica Lamp, won the GLVC title.

UMR will compete next at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Nov. 3 in Edwardsville, Ill.

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Kierra Handley

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Lady Miner cross country took part in its final competition Saturday night before the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships by participating in the Brooks Memphis Classic.

UMR's top performance in the five-kilometer race came from sophomore Kierra Handley, who posted a time of 20:37 to finish in 135th place in the 329-runner race. She was followed by Rebecca McNally in 194th in a time of 21:38 and Terea Conley, who finished in 22:14.

The Lady Miner contingent was wrapped up Samanth Schussele, who had a time of 22:43 and Dana Narconis who completed the race in 24:32.

UMR will take part in the GLVC Championships Oct. 20 in Indianapolis.

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Dana Narconis

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Competing with a full squad for the first time this season, the UMR women's cross country team came away with a fifth place finish in the Arkansas-Little Rock Invitational Saturday.

UMR posted a total of 124 points in a meet where the top four teams came from the Division I ranks. The host school won the meet, followed by Central Arkansas, Memphis and Arkansas State, which finished just 10 points ahead of the Lady Miners.

Dana Narconis was UMR's top finisher with a 23rd place showing, covering the five-kilometer course in 21:44. Rebecca McNally was right behind her in 21:47, while Kierra Handley was 29th in 22:44.

UMR's contingent was rounded out by Teresa Conley in 30th place in 22:58 and Samantha Schussele in 32nd in 23:10.

The Lady Miners will be idle next week and will compete in the Rhodes Twilight Invitational Oct. 6 in Memphis, Tenn.

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Joffroi Holcombe

Joffroi Holcombe won the Miner Invitational last September, then went out Saturday morning and repeated that title with a better time on a wet course.

Holcombe, who had a winning time of 15:34 in the meet last year, covered the five-kilometer course in a time of 15:19 to take his second straight title in the Miners' home meet. He won the race by nine seconds over Drury's Jaime Villa Zapatero, but the Panthers had four runners among the top six overall to edge UMR in the team competition by five points.

The Miners' next-highest finisher was Kurt Schauwecker in fourth place with a time of 15:37, then UMR had Brendan Smith come in ninth in 15:48, Chris Murray in 11th in 15:56 and Brandon Etzold in 12th in 15:58. Drury's fifth runner, Chris Yates, crossed the finish line in 16th place just ahead of UMR's Brett Agee and Grant Brown.

In the women's race, Kierra Handley finished first among the Lady Miner runners in 19th place with a time of 21:31. Freshman Rebecca McNally came in 23rd in 22:03 and fellow freshman Samantha Schussel was 35th in the 64-runner race with a time of 22:56.

The Miners and Lady Miners will compete next Saturday at the Southern Stampede at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin.

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Dana Narconis

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The UMR women's cross country team got its season started Saturday by competing at the Bob Timmons Invitational at the University of Kansas.

Junior Dana Narconis was the top finisher among the Lady Miners at the meet, posting a time of 27:35 over six kilometers to finish in 74th place. Kierra Handley finished three spots behind her in a time of 27:48, while Rebecca McNally was right behind Handley with a time of 27:52. Samantha Schussel was 94th in 29:43.

UMR will host the Miner Invitational next Saturday at the UMR Golf Course.

Final results from Kansas

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Becca Kueny

University of Missouri-Rolla senior Becca Kueny, a two-time conference champion in the javelin throw, is now a two-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America selection.

Kueny was named to the team that was released today as a first team selection for the 2006-07 season. The award comes on the heels of a second straight appearance at the NCAA Division II Championships where she finished ninth in the javelin, the event in which she repeated as the Great Lakes Valley Conference champion just a month earlier.

A ceramic engineering major who was also the recipient of the women's Gale Bullman Award following the 2006-07 athletic season, Kueny earned All-America honors in the javelin in 2006 after posting the second-best throw in the event in school history of 148-6.

In addition, Kueny placed seventh in the discus throw at the conference meet this season to help lead the Lady Miners to a fourth place finish in the meet. She is also a member of the GLVC All-Academic team for the 2006-07 season and has earned four academic all-district awards, two in track and field and two more as a member of the women's basketball team.

Kueny is the fifth UMR student-athlete to earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors during the 2006-07 school year. She joins Dan Gravlin (men's soccer), Kandi Wieberg (women's soccer), Bill Gaul and Andy Shelley (swimming) as recipients of the award. UMR has had 47 Academic All-America awards given to its student-athletes throughout its history including 24 since 2000, the fifth-highest total among NCAA Division II institutions.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Becca Kueny reached the finals in the javelin throw Saturday, but couldn't rise any higher in the final three rounds and finished ninth in the event at the NCAA Division II Championships.

Kueny made the finals with a second round throw of 132-6 which put her in ninth after three rounds. Unfortunately for the UMR senior, she could not improve on that mark in any of her final three attempts, with the best mark being a 125-11 in the fifth round.

The eighth place finisher, Jayci Peters of Fort Hays State, had a mark of 136-3. Western Washington's Monica Gruszecki won the javelin with a throw of 145-8 in round three.

The other UMR competitor Saturday, men's freshman pole vaulter Peter Hollenbeck, did not clear the opening height of 15-5. The event was won by Grand Valley State's Bryant Wilson at 17-2 3/4.

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The University of Missouri-Rolla will have three individuals taking part in the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships over Memorial Day weekend at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C.

Becca Kueny, who earned All-America honors in the javelin throw last season, will have a chance to earn a second award in the event as the lone member of the Lady Miner squad picked to take part.

The men's team, meanwhile, will have a pair of first-time national entrants in senior Chris Carsten and freshman Peter Hollenbeck. Carsten will compete in the two events where he holds the UMR school record, the hammer throw and shot put, while Hollenbeck will compete in the pole vault.

Kueny will go into the national meet ranked 16th in the event in which 18 competitors were selected. She earned All-America honors last season at nationals at Emporia State with a throw of 148-6 to place eighth. Her top throw of the 2007 outdoor season is 138-9 and is a back-to-back Great Lakes Valley Conference champion in the event.

The national leader in the event is SIU Edwardsville's Alicia DeShasier with a mark of 164-9.

Hollenbeck continues a line of pole vaulters who have earned berths to nationals, as he is the fourth different member of that group to earn a national berth in the last four seasons. His top clearance of the season, 16-1 1/4 set during the Dewey Allgood Invitational at UMR, has him ranked in a tie for 10th heading into the meet.

The current leader in the pole vault is Grand Valley State's Bryant Wilson with a mark of 17-1 1/2.

Carsten set new school records this season in the hammer throw with a mark of 182-2 -- which won the GLVC title -- and shot put at 54-1 1/4 which was established during the Miners' home meet this spring.

He is 13th in the shot put and 18th in the hammer throw going into the national meet. The top performances in the events this season have been posted by competitors from Ashland University, with the shot put mark coming from Bryan Vickers of 61-8 1/4 and the top hammer mark is owned by Kibwe Johnson of 241-3.

The NCAA Championships get underway May 24. Carsten will compete in each of the first two days, with the hammer throw taking place on May 24 at 3 p.m. and the shot put at the same time on the following day. Kueny will compete May 26 in the javelin at 2:15 p.m., while Hollenbeck will be in action later that day in the pole vault at 5 p.m.

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