2023 HCAC Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship – Day 1 Recap

HCAC Track and Field4/28/2023 9:45:33 PM Tyler Smith

FRANKLIN, Ind. - The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) kicked off the first day of the 2023 Outdoor Track and Field Championships on the campus of Franklin College, at Grizzly Park’s H. Dean Evans Track and Field Complex.

Manchester University, the reigning 2022 HCAC Men’s and Women’s Outdoor track and field champions look to go back-to-back. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is looking to re-establish themselves as champions of the HCAC, following up their successful indoor track and field season after being named HCAC champions in the men’s and women’s respectively.

After the first day of competition, Rose-Hulman leads in the men’s standings with a total of 82 points through six events. The Fightin’ Engineers are followed by Manchester with 57 points and Hanover College with 25 points. On the women’s side, Hanover narrowly leads Manchester with 75 points. Manchester sits in second place after day one with a total of 68 points followed by Rose-Hulman (48 points).

On day one several athletes throughout the HCAC were crowned champions while also seeing school records being broken. Alisson Muck of Franklin College broke Franklin’s previous school record in the 100M Hurdles with a second-place finish in the preliminary round.

Hanover’s Nina Jazdzewski claimed the title of champion in the women’s pole vault for the second year in a row with a height of 2.96 meters. Rose-Hulman’s Colin Welsh won the men’s pole vault championship, clearing a height of 3.75 meters.

Justin Dreyling of Mount St. Joseph University won the men’s triple jump, with a distance of 14.25 meters. Rofiat Adeyemi of Rose-Hulman took the women’s triple jump title, clearing 11.23 meters. Adeyemi will look to repeat as the HCAC’s women’s long jump champion on day two.

Hanover swept the discus throws, with Nick Stroud becoming champion of the men’s discus throw, tossing 47.4 meters. Jessie Stenger’s throw of 43.62 meters gave her a second straight title and was just enough to edge out teammate Jessica Beckman who threw 43.08 meters.

Anderson University’s Michael Sweigart took the title of the men’s shot put with a throw of 15.87 meters. Carley Camp of Manchester edged out Hanover’s Stenger by .02 meters for the women’s shot put throw championship with a distance of 13.52 meters.

The Women’s 3000-meter Steeplechase champion was Elizabeth Lohman of Manchester for the second year in a row with a time of 12:21.20. Drew Meader of Transylvania University raced to the title in the men’s 3000-meter with a time of 9:45.81.

Day one was closed out by the men’s and women’s 10,000-meter run with Manchester Seniors Hannah Brubaker and Enrique Salazar as the winners of both events. Brubaker posted a time of 39:04.08 for the women’s 10,000-meter championship. Salazar won the men’s 10,000 meters with a time of 31:39.02, becoming a three-time 10,000-meter champion in the HCAC.

Day two of the Spring Outdoor Track and Field Championships will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 29th at Grizzly Park’s H. Dean Evans Track and Field Complex.

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