Walker vaults to new personal best at Knox

February 22, 2000

Monmouth College's Aaron Walker, a junior from Seneca, Ill., broke his own indoor track record in the pole vault to highlight the Fighting Scots' efforts at a five-team meet hosted by Knox College on Jan. 29.

Walker topped his previous best by 10 inches with his winning vault of 14'6" to defeat competitors from Washington University, Loras, Augustana and the host Prairie Fire. Augustana won both the men's and women's meets.

Other individual first-place efforts on the day came from Scott Stanton in the 55-meter high hurdleds (7.77), Cort Mills in the high jump (6'6") and Will Smith in the triple jump (43'6"). Stanton's time was just .02 off the national-qualifying standard.

Two relays broke the tape as well, including Justin Bryant, Matt Beverly, Chris Lacy and Randy Williams in the men's 4x200 (1:32.80) and Constance Jackson, Maggie Semington, Jill Hoops and Philica Moredock in the women's 4x200 (1:49.23).

Placing second were the relay teams of Zach Hampson, Williams, Bryant and Lacy in the men's 4x400 (3:28.99), Amon Shelby, Beverly, Rich Johnson and Tony Miles in the men's 1600-meter sprint medley (3:48.25) and Jackson, Semington, Hoops and Moredock in the women's 4x400 (4:14.80).

Williams ran a personal-best time of 6.71 in the 55-meter dash to place second; David Hodge was runner-up in the long jump with a PR of 22' 4-1/4"; and Eric Holmes was second in the shot put (51'5") and the weight throw (43'2"). His latter effort was a personal record, and PRs were also set in that event by Monmouth throwers Tobias Dicerson (40'2") and Irann Higgins (39'3").

Other notable performances included: Vanessa Armstrong and Trista Neal finishing fourth and fifth in the women's weight throw (36'1" and 36'0"); James Amerison and Matt Beverly finishing fifth and eighth in the 55-meter dash (6.77 and 6.84); Hoops and Moredock setting PRs in the 55-meter dash as they finished fourth and fifth (7.65 and 7.70); Tony Miles taking sixth in the 1,500 (4:19.78); and the women's 1,600-meter sprint relay team of Elise Estes, Julie Larson, Katie McGee and Ann Moody, which placed third (4:42.88).