Monmouth College crowned 16 champions on their way to another Midwest Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship Saturday in DePere, Wis.
Competing at St. Norbert College’s Schneider Stadium the Fighting Scots’ women claimed their eighth straight crown and the men their 12th, both outdistancing runner up St. Norbert by a large margin. The wins completed the Scots’ sweep of the indoor and outdoor championships for the eighth consecutive year.
Roger Haynes was awarded the conference’s Coach of the Year honor in a vote of the league’s coaches. Double winner Amanda Streeter was named women’s Field Event co-Performer while DeAndre Smith – also a double champion – and Brock McAnally won the same award in the men’s division. Jake Barr – a two-time winner this weekend – and Kiante Green were named men’s Track Event co-Performers.
Streeter – a three-time hammer throw champion – launched a personal-best 163’9” effort Friday night to lead the Scots to a 1-2-3 finish in the event where Allison Devor and Raven Robinson joined her on the awards stand. Streeter then defended her discus title from a year ago with a throw of 137’3’ to earn her second title of the meet.
Barr earned his first and second conference titles in the two longest events of the meet. He earned his first conference crown Friday, outlasting the competition in the 10K with a time 33:02.17 to win by 17 seconds. On Saturday, Barr became the Scots’ first men’s champion since 1996 in the 5K, edging his closest competitor by less than six seconds after running a 15:22.42.
Smith earned his first outdoor league title in the shot put Friday with a throw of 50’5-1/2” to win by more than two feet. He then successfully defended his discus crown by throwing a personal-best 157’4” to win by nearly 20’.
McAnally became the conference champion in the pole vault for the third straight year. The senior cleared 16’4-3/4” to win by more than a foot over teammate Steve Andris in second place.
Green became the first Monmouth runner since Dante Daniels in 2007 to win the 100-meter dash. Green clocked a personal-best 10.63 to equal Daniels’ then-MWC record time. Bailey Jackson earned her first individual outdoor title, breaking the tape in the women’s 100 with a 12.51.
Monmouth also returned with a pair of titles in the steeplechase. Mary Kate Beyer defended her title with a time of 11:09.03. Jon Welty clocked a lifetime-best in the steeple, winning the men’s event in 9:19.74. Barr finished fourth with a career-best time of 9:28.89.
Kayla Corzine became a first-time winner. The junior led a Monmouth sweep of the shot put, throwing the sphere a personal-best 44’7”. Defending champion Devor was second and Streeter was third with a personal-best throw of 43’6-1/2”.
Karston Anderson had the meet’s best triple jump. He brought home the title with a mark of 45’3-1/2”.
Sophomore Eric Brown ran away with his first outdoor individual title. A lifetime-best 48.44 took the 400 dash crown by 14-hundredths.
Monmouth’s men also broke the tape in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Andre Taylor, James Wilson, Brown and Green ran a record time in the 4x1 of 41.66, breaking the old conference record set in 2007 by the Scots’ Shane Reschke, Aaron Daverin, Kyle Prout and Saidu Sesay. Brian Sullivan, Garrett Daniel, Raimius Foulkes and Reschke clocked a 3:20.65 in the 4x4 to win by nearly a full second.
The Scots piled on points with 12 runner up finishes on the women’s side.
Jackson earned second place points twice. She was less than a half second behind the winner in the 200 and placed second in the triple jump. Alexa Allen took second in the 100 hurdles and Haley Jones was runner up in the 400 hurdles.
The women’s 4x100 relay was just seven-hundredths off the pace in that event. The women’s 4x100 relay was just seven-hundredths off the pace in that event. Kimarri Campbell, Kenzie Payton, Jackson and Allen clocked a 48.80 for second-place points.
Monmouth also had near-misses in the distance races where Rachel Bowden and Alyssa Edwards finished 2-3 in the 1500. It was a 2-3 finish in the women’s 5K with Tori Beaty and Brittney Frazier.
Beaty was also second in the 10K.
In the field events, Emily Tysma placed second in the high jump and Mackinsey Marquith was second in the long jump, just ahead of Jackson in third.
Jake Nysather and DeAndre Smith each threw personal-best in the hammer throw to finish 2-3. Nysather’s 169’6” throw was 9’ farther than Smith’s effort.
Joining Nysather and Andris as second place finishers for the men were Green in the 200 and James Wilson who had a career-best long jump of 23’11”.
The teams will follow their conference titles with a Last Chance qualifying meet next weekend prior to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Claremont, Calif., May 24-26.
