OAC Championships

Its has been a few weeks so I just wanted to give a quick recap of the indoor championships.

Right now, Alan Bowsher is proving even with graduation nearing ONU will be tough next year by proving he is one of the top runners in the conference right now. In the 3k, it appeared Chase Schneider had made the right move to break the field only to be kicked down in the final meters by Alan(8:50). Then Alan came back on Saturday and took 2nd to teammate Thomas Adam in the 5k (15:31). Those two performances won him the Distance Runner of the Meet along with his fellow teammate Rachel Smith who won the mile in 5:10 and came back in the 1k and finished 2nd in 3:08, CONGRATS!!!!

Also, I think it would only be appropriate to congratulate those runners who sacrificed for their teams at the conference meet and ran 4 events, which is absolutely amazing at the collegiate level to be competitive at the highest level when others are specializing in one event. Those performers would be Jimmy O'Brien(ONU) and D'Arcy Hlavin(BW). Jimmy was part of one of the greatest finishes I have ever witnessed in winning the DMR, winning the mile, winning the 800, and then came up just a little short of duplicating Friday nights performance anchoring the 2nd place 4x4 team. D'Arcy like Jimmy was on the winning DMR, took 2nd in the mile, took 3td in the 800, and then finished the meet running the 5k and finished 4th in (19:11).

It will be interesting to see if anyone is able to step up and compete with ONU's depth on the men's side during the outdoor season. On the women's side, it appears it will continue to be a dog fight.