Scots Women Tracksters Regain MWC Crown 

Release Date: May 18, 2000

The Fighting Scots women’s track team repeated the Midwest Conference title they won during the indoor season by taking the outdoor championship May 12-13 at Appleton, Wis., in the process edging defending outdoor champ Carroll by 2-1/2 points.

Keying the victory was a record-equaling performance by junior standout Constance Jackson, who virtually mirrored the best-ever MWC meet showing by a female athlete. In 1996, Heather Furrow won a combined five events, including two relays, and Jackson won four of the same five events that Furrow did, taking the long jump (17’6-1/4), 200-meter dash (26.43) and two relays.

Furrow also won the 400 in ’96, but Jackson let teammate Philicia Moredock take that title (1:00.29). Instead, Jackson won the 100-meter dash (12.83) to gain five firsts and earn one of the meet’s three MVP awards.

"It was clearly an outstanding set of performances under difficult weather conditions," said coach Roger Haynes, referring to the rain on May 12 and the strong wind on the 13th.

Jackson now has seven MWC outdoor titles to her credit, trailing only – you guessed it – Furrow on the all-time list. Furrow won 12 titles in her three-year career.

Entering this season, Furrow was also the only Scot to win four events at an MWC meet (1998), but now Jill Hoops can make that claim, as she won both hurdle races (16.48 and 1:05.02) and also ran on the two winning relays. Hoops and Jackson were joined by Moredock and Elise Estes in both of the relay victories (49.22 and an MWC Meet-record 3:58.76).

Kara Kuhrts added an individual title in the triple jump (35’6-1/2), and Melissa Jones won the high jump (5’1-3/4).

In any close victory, the second- through eighth-place finishers are also very important, and the following athletes all contributed to Monmouth’s winning score:

Seconds: Moredock, 200; Maggie Semington, 100 hurdles; Cheris Beaty, pole vault; Julie Larson, triple jump

Thirds: Hoops, 100; Semington, 400 hurdles

Fourths: Estes, 100; Estes, 400; Beaty, 100 hurdles; Katie McGee, 400 hurdles; Larson, long jump

Fifth: Kuhrts, high jump

Sixth: Kuhrts, 400

Seventh: Ann Moody, 800