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Members of the Fighting Scots men's track team pose with their second place team trophy from the NCAA
Division III Indoor Championships. |
The meet results confirmed
it – the Monmouth College men’s track team is second in the nation.
The Fighting Scots further proved that they are one of the elite teams
in the nation by picking up the second-place team trophy from the NCAA
Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships held Friday and Saturday
in Ada, Ohio. The Scots, who took sixth at last year’s indoor meet and
followed that with a third-place finish in the outdoor season, had their
best team finish in school history with the runner-up performance this
weekend. Monmouth led after the first day of competition but UW-La
Crosse passed the Scots on Day 2 to win the meet 43-33. Monmouth
finished 12 points ahead of Wisconsin schools Platteville and Oshkosh,
who tied for third.
Junior sprinter Luke Reschke had a big hand in the Scots’ strong
showing, collecting his fourth and fifth All-American honors on
Saturday. Reschke clocked a second-place finish of 49.51 in the
400-meter dash, then teamed with Logan Hohl, Brad Gross and Jacob Stott
in the 4x400 relay, which placed fourth with a time of 3:22.22. Senior
thrower Zach Wilson’s 51’4-1/2 mark in the shot put failed to advance
him to the finals.
Women’s pole vaulter Jessica White cleared a personal-best 12’4 to
finish third, making her a three-time All-American, a day after men’s
three-time pole vault All-American Jonny Henkins won the national title
by tying his personal-best height of 16’9-1/2.
Also Friday, Peter Sprecher, last year’s outdoor pole vault champion,
took fifth, just four inches behind Henkins’ winning height, to also
achieve his third All-American honor. Wilson added to the All-American
parade for the Scots, taking third in the weight throw with a toss of
61’0-3/4.
Hohl just missed the 55-meter hurdle finals with a time of 7.78. Women’s
hurdler Shannon Turczyn failed to make Saturday’s finals with a time of
8.39.
