Denison Women’s Track and Field Teams Sit in Third at the NCAC Indoor Track and Field Championships, Drost Earns Program's First NCAC Women’s Weight Throw Title

Oberlin, Ohio- After the first day of the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, the Denison women's track and field teams sit in third place, and Mariel Drost earned the Big Red's first All-NCAC title of the weekend. The women's team totaled 27 points after day one with two All-Conference performances and five top-eight finishes.

Day 1 Highlights
The women kicked off the day with a bang, after sophomore Mariel Drost earned the title of NCAC women's weight throw champion, after throwing a distance of 13.90m, making Drost the first in program history to earn the NCAC weight throw title. Denison's Jane McNamara, Lillian Wallace Larkin, Evangelina Spoarks, and Fiona Martinelli finished second in the distance medley with a time of 12:47.31. The remaining point-getters for the Big Red were Sydney Brown and Julia Schena who competed in the pentathlon last week, earning Denison eight points, as well as Emery Kurth, who finished eighth in high jump with a height of 1.46m.

Below are all of the qualifiers for tomorrow's women's finals events

Event                    Student-Athlete       Results
60m Hurdles        Sydney Brown           9.19 (PR)
60m Dash             Anaya Jolivette        7.88
200m Dash          Anaya Jolivette           26.02
400m Dash          Piper Lee                  1:01.78
60m Hurdles Mira Renaldi               9.25

Up Next
The Big Red are back in action on Saturday, March 1, for day two of the NCAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

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