Hardtke, Marx Chosen Verizon
Academic All-America
  Two UW-Oshkosh student-athletes,
both first-time honorees, have been named to the
2002 Verizon College Division Academic
All-America Women's Track and Field/Cross Country
Teams.
UW-Oshkosh
student-athletes cited for their academic and
athletic excellence were second team selection
Susan Hardtke and third team pick Jessica Marx.
The College Division of the Verizon Academic
All-America Women's Track & Field/Cross
Country Team includes schools belonging to the
NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III or the NAIA.
Hardtke, a senior
from Kewaunee, owns a 3.97 cumulative grade point
average as an elementary education major. Hardtke
compiled 11 varsity letters during her four years
at UW-Oshkosh, with four in both indoor and
outdoor track and field and three in cross
country. She was member of WIAC championship
teams in cross country in 1999 and 2000 and
indoor track and field in 1999.
This past year,
Hardtke ran a leg on UW-Oshkosh's distance medley
relay team that finished first at the NCAA
Division III and WIAC Indoor Track and Field
championships. She also finished first in the
3,200 and second in the 1,600-meter relays at the
2002 WIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championship
and 124th at the 2001 NCAA Division III Cross
Country Championship.
Marx, a junior
from Mukwonago, owns a 3.91 cumulative grade
point average as an elementary education major.
Marx has totaled seven varsity letters during her
four years at UW-Oshkosh, with four in indoor
track and field and three in outdoor track and
field. Marx, who will compete in outdoor track
and field for the Titans next spring, was a
member of UW-Oshkosh's 1999 indoor track and
field team that claimed the WIAC championship.
This past year,
Marx ran a leg on UW-Oshkosh's distance medley
relay team that finished first at the NCAA
Division III and WIAC Indoor Track and Field
championships. She also finished first in the
3,200 meter relay at the 2002 WIAC Outdoor Track
and Field Championship and second in both the 400
meter dash and 1,600 meter relay at the 2002 WIAC
Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field championships.
At the 2002 WIAC Indoor Track and Field
Championship, Marx was named the league's
scholar-athlete award winner.
This year marks
the 50th anniversary of the Verizon Academic
All-America program, which was founded by the
College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA) in 1952 to recognize collegiate
student-athletes for their outstanding
achievements in the classroom and on the playing
field. Over the past 50 years, the Verizon
Academic All-America program has grown into one
of the most recognized and prestigious collegiate
scholar-athlete awards in the country.
The Verizon
Academic All-America Teams are selected by a vote
of the 1,800-member CoSIDA. To be eligible, an
athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve
and maintain a cumulative grade point average of
at least 3.20 on a scale of 4.00.
Since the
inception of the Verizon Academic All-America
Program, 26 UW-Oshkosh student-athletes have
combined for 34 awards, including four-time
honoree Laura Nelson in women's track and
field/cross country. In WIAC listings, UW-Oshkosh
ranks second to the 35 Verizon Academic
All-America mentions totaled by UW-La Crosse.
Titans
Place Eighth at NCAA Nationals
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 The UW-Oshkosh
women’s track team produced four
All-American finishes and an individual
national championship effort on its way
to a sixth-place finish at the NCAA
Division III Outdoor Championship, hosted
by Macalaster College.
A trio of
talented sophomores, including Liz
Woodworth who finished the 800-meter run
in two minutes, 9.06 seconds to take the
NCAA Championship in that event, led the
Titans, who garnered 22 team points.
Woodworth’s time set a new record
for Macalester Stadium, and was the best
posting in Division III during the 2002
season.
Penny
Godleske placed sixth in the hammer throw
with a distance of 157 feet-11 inches,
while Kay Mikolajczak placed fifth in the
heptathlon with 4,532 points. An 11:00.04
time gave Jackie Munoz a fourth-place
finish in the steeplechase to complete
the Titans All-American roster.
Rounding
out the day for UW-Oshkosh were
point-earning performances from senior
Katie Lindsay. Lindsay wrapped up her
UW-Oshkosh career with a 38-foot leap in
the triple jump, good for ninth place.
Wheaton
College took the team championship with
67 points, while UW-La Crosse came in
third with 38. McMurry University,
Williams College, and Christopher Newport
rounded out the top five. In the team
competition, 74 schools earned at least
one point.
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Titans Finish Second At NCAA
Indoor Championship
An impressive nine records
were broken during the 2002 NCAA Division
III Men's and Women's Indoor Track and
Field Championships held Friday and
Saturday (March 8-9) at the Ohio Northern
University Sports Center in Ada, Ohio.
The UW-La
Crosse men and the Wheaton College
(Mass.) women successfully defended their
team titles from a year ago.
In the
men's meet, UW-La Crosse scored 54 points
to win their second straight and ninth
title overall in the 18-year history of
the event. Lincoln University (Pa.) was
second with 48 points, Montclair State
University (N.J.) third with 29 points,
Wheaton College (Mass.) fourth with 27
points and UW-Oshkosh fith with 26.
Wheaton
College (Mass.) won its fourth straight
women's title by amassing 65.5 points,
just missing the Championships record of
66 points by Christopher Newport
University (Va.) in 1988.
UW-Oshkosh
was second with 37 points, UW-La Crosse
third with 30.5 points, Williams College
(Mass.) fourth with 29 points and
Carthage College fifth with 24 points.
Individually
on the women's side, Wheaton College's
(Mass.) Shimera Daniels set two NCAA
Division III records, winning the triple
jump with a distance of 12.62 meters and
the long jump with a jump of 5.96 meters.
Her
teammate, Amber James, set a record in
the 400 meter ash with a time of 55.46
seconds and combined with Niara Woods,
Tessa Donoghue and April Butler on
Wheaton College's 4 x 400 relay team that
won in 3:48.78.
Nebraska
Wesleyan University's Kelly Bowen won the
pole vault by clearing an NCAA rDivision
III record 3.77 meters.
In the
men's competition, Jeremy Scott of
Allegheny College (Pa.), Andrew Rock of
UW-La Crosse and Matt Groose of
UW-Oshkosh all set NCAA Division III
records in individual events and the
Haverford College (Pa.) medley relay team
also set an NCAA Division III
Championships mark.
Scott won
the pole vault by clearing 5.50 meters,
Rock won the 400-meter dash in 47.47
seconds and Groose won the 800-meter run
in 1:49.73. Haverford College's relay
team finished in 9:58.53.
In
addition to Groose's first-place finish
in the 800 meter run, the UW-Oshkosh
men's team also received a third-place
finish from David Cisewski in the 5,000
meter run (14:41.82), eighth-place finish
from Kirk DeWindt in the 1,500 meter run
and an eighth-place finish from Eamon
McKenna in the 5,000 meter run
(14:54.25). The Titans' distance medley
relay team of Cisewski, Groose, John
LeRoy and Steve Wagner finished second
with a time of 9:59.52.
UW-Oshkosh's
women's team received a first-place
finish from Carrie Danielewicz in the
high jump (5-7 1/4), first-place finish
from Elizabeth Woodworth in the 800 meter
run (2:12.41), sixth-place finish from
Jessica Marx in the 800 meter run
(2:15.73), seventh-place finish from Jill
Kincaid in the triple jump (37-10 1/2)
and a seventh-place finish from Niki
Riemer in the pole vault (11-4 1/2). The
Titans' distance medley relay team of
Susan Hardtke, Marx, Jackie Munoz and
Woodworth also finished first with a time
of 11:46.19.
A total of
16 Ohio Northern University Sports Center
records were broken during the event.
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Titans
Finish Second At WIAC Indoor Championship
The University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse women's indoor track
& field team won its third straight
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (WIAC) championship Saturday
in Kachel Fieldhouse. The Eagles finished
with 209.00 points. UW-Oshkosh was second
(143.00) followed by UW-Stevens Point
(115.00), UW-Eau Claire (103.00),
UW-Whitewater (58.00), UW-Stout (22.00),
UW-River Falls (21.00), UW-Platteville
(16.00) and UW-Superior (11.00).
La Crosse had three individual champions
and captured two relays titles during the
two-day event. Heather Kleckner won the
pole vault with a league record height of
12-6 3/4. Jocelyn Loe claimed the
400-meter dash with a time of 58.66 and
Angela Klatt the 200-meter dash in 25.36.
The Eagles also won the 4x200-meter relay
in 1:44.75 and the 4x400-meter relay in
4:00.88. It was the 11th-consecutive
season that La Crosse has won the
4x400-meter conference crown.
Oshkosh had five individual champions in
four events and one relay title. Carrie
Danielewicz won the high jump with a
height of 5-3 3/4 and the pentathlon with
3,305 points. Elizabeth Woodworth became
a two-time league champion in the
800-meter run with a time of 2:11.35. Her
time set a new conference record. Jackie
Munoz won the 1,500-meter run with a time
of 4:40.36, while Jill Kincaid won the
triple jump for the third consecutive
season with a distance of 38-6. The
Titans' distance medley relay team won in
11:57.01.
Eau Claire's Jane-Marie Ovanin won the
3,000-meter run with a time of 10:11.05
and the 5,000-meter run in 17:34.38. The
Blugolds' Breanna McMullen won the
55-meter high hurdles with a time of
8.55.
Whitewater's Tabitha Fendrick won the
shot put crown for the third consecutive
season with a distance of 47-0 1/4. The
Warhawks' Jessica Janson won the 55-meter
dash in 7.28.
Stevens Point's Megan Lundahl won the
20-pound weight throw with a toss of 52-4
1/2. She also won the event in 2000.
Superior's Sarah Moravchik won the long
jump with a distance of 18-5, becoming
the first Yellowjacket in school history
to win a conference indoor women's title
in any field event.
Eau Claire's Jane-Marie Ovanin was named
the Track Performer of the Meet, while
Oshkosh's Carrie Danielewicz was named
the Field Performer of the Meet.
La Crosse head coach Pat Healy was
selected the Coach of the Year for the
third consecutive year. It is Healy's
fifth conference indoor championship to
go along with six outdoor titles.
Many of the competitors in the WIAC
championship will travel to Ohio Northern
University next Friday and Saturday,
March 8-9 for the NCAA III Indoor
Championship.
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