Five Chargers prepare for NCAA national competition Friday and Saturday
Cody Ewers
Issue date: 3/12/09 Section: Sports
Five representatives from the Hillsdale College indoor track and field team left for Houston, Texas, Tuesday to compete in the first annual NCAA Division II Winter National Championship held on the University of Houston grounds Friday and Saturday.
Junior Aaron Falk heaved his way to an automatically qualifying distance in the weight throw earlier this year with a school record 19.91 meters. A questionable foul called on one of junior Jared Krout's long jumps at the GLIAC Championship meet two weeks ago that would've put him past the auto-mark makes Falk the only Charger to automatically qualify this year.
"It's a pretty cool thing to automatically qualify," Falk said. "I'm really excited about getting down there and throwing well."
Despite ending the year ranked 15th on the national list of Division II long jumpers, of which the top 12 were taken to Houston, Krout barely made the cut due to a few drop-outs ahead of him.
"I'm lucky to even be going," Krout said. "But, I know I can jump [past the automatically qualifying time]. I just did it last week."
Senior Andrew Dodson returns to nationals this year off a high jump scoring 2.08 m and is ranked ninth.
All three men enter this year's national competition as former All-Americans.
This year marks freshman Amanda Putt's first trip to nationals and, coming off a first place finish that earned her the 12th seed in the mile at GLIAC Championships, she looks to earn her first All-American honor.
Sophomore Marta Scheiwe is experiencing her second trip to nationals this week for her efforts in the 400 m dash. She enters the race seeded tenth.
Results of the meet will be updated on the NCAA Web site throughout the weekend.
Junior Aaron Falk heaved his way to an automatically qualifying distance in the weight throw earlier this year with a school record 19.91 meters. A questionable foul called on one of junior Jared Krout's long jumps at the GLIAC Championship meet two weeks ago that would've put him past the auto-mark makes Falk the only Charger to automatically qualify this year.
"It's a pretty cool thing to automatically qualify," Falk said. "I'm really excited about getting down there and throwing well."
Despite ending the year ranked 15th on the national list of Division II long jumpers, of which the top 12 were taken to Houston, Krout barely made the cut due to a few drop-outs ahead of him.
"I'm lucky to even be going," Krout said. "But, I know I can jump [past the automatically qualifying time]. I just did it last week."
Senior Andrew Dodson returns to nationals this year off a high jump scoring 2.08 m and is ranked ninth.
All three men enter this year's national competition as former All-Americans.
This year marks freshman Amanda Putt's first trip to nationals and, coming off a first place finish that earned her the 12th seed in the mile at GLIAC Championships, she looks to earn her first All-American honor.
Sophomore Marta Scheiwe is experiencing her second trip to nationals this week for her efforts in the 400 m dash. She enters the race seeded tenth.
Results of the meet will be updated on the NCAA Web site throughout the weekend.
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