After two days of competition in Delaware, Ohio, the Denison women's track and field team took fifth with 85 points at the 2015 North Coast Athletic Conference Outdoor Championship held at the George Gauthier Track. At the conclusion of the meet, junior Aedin Brennan was named NCAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year for the third-consecutive year.
The Big Red scored 42 points in seven events on Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan. Brennan led the charge with 26 of those points in four performances. She became a three-time champion in the outdoor triple jump with a conference and school-record mark of 39'7.75". That combined leap surpassed her own school record and the NCAC record, set by Oberlin's Apryl Wynn in 2001, by 1'3.50". Brennan now ranks fifth in Division III in the event based on the results reported to the Track & Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS). She also currently boasts the sixth-best heptathlon score (4,850), the ninth-fastest time in the 400 hurdles (1:01.96) and the 20th-best mark in the long jump (18'5").
Also posting a personal record in the triple jump at the NCAC meet was sophomore Anne Lee. Lee improved on her previous PR by 2.25" with a jump of 34'4". That performance resulted in a sixth-place finish.
In addition to the triple jump, Brennan also racked up points in three different running events. The Fairport, New York native also earned her third outdoor title in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.35. Roughly 40 minutes later, she returned to the track to place fourth in the 200 dash with a PR time of 25.56. That time bested her previous personal best by 17 hundredths of a second. Brennan's final point of the day came as a member of the 4x400 relay team alongside Olivia Ireland, Phoebe Osterhout and Kate Benson. The Denison foursome combined for a time of 4:13.36 which landed them in eighth place.
The freshman duo of Hannah Hall and Arlesha Cospy also supplied the Big Red with points on Saturday. Hall finished in a tie for second place in the high jump after successfully clearing 5'2.25". Cospy added four points to the team's total with a fifth-place showing in the shot put. The freshman thrower's top mark of 38'7" came in her second toss of the finals. Senior Abbi Boss, who earned her first-ever All-NCAC honor in track last night in the 10K, rounded out the scoring with a seventh-place finish in the 5,000-meter run. Boss crossed the line in 19:01.91.
Ohio Wesleyan ran away with the team title after scoring 251 points through 21 events. Oberlin finished second with 133, while Allegheny took third (100). Wooster (93), Denison, Wittenberg (69), DePauw (47) and Kenyon (35) rounded out the eight-team field.
