Women's Indoor Track & Field: Ohio Northern (11-7 Overall) at Capital Rick Meindel Invitational
Sunday, February 21, 2021, 11 am - Capital Center, Bexley, Ohio
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Sunday's Meet: The Ohio Northern men's indoor track and field team will continue its 2021 season on Sunday when they travel to Capital for the Rick Meindel Invitational ... The meet will be a tri-meet with ONU, CU and Wilmington ... The Polar Bears are ranked No. 15 nationally in the fourth weekly USTFCCCA power rankings this week ... Northern is coming off a fourth place finish at the 10-team OAC Elite Meet last Sunday ... Junior Kayla Silva and senior Stella DeWitt each placed in three events to lead ONU ... Silva was second in the 200-meter dash in :26.56, was third in the 60 meters in 7.94 seconds and was fifth in the long jump at 5.32 meters ... Her 60-meter time was was just .02 of a second off of her school record :07.92 set in 2019 ... DeWitt was second in the triple jump with a leap of 10.68 meters, was third in the long jump with a jump of 5.49 meters and was fourth in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.42 seconds ... Sophomore Lexi Neff was third in the 1,000 run in 3:12.93 ... Four Polar Bears placed in the top eight in the 5,000-meter run, led by junior Rue Whitmore in fourth in 18:28.89 ... Senior Kathleen Colvin was sixth in 18:34.01, junior Tessa Pitcovich was seventh in 18:39.01 and freshman Megan Vapenik was eighth in 19:30.85 ... Senior Kylie Vestal is second in the OAC in the 1,000 in 3:09.08 ... Silva is third in the OAC in the 200 (:26.56) ... DeWitt is third in the OAC and eighth nationally in the long jump (5.49m) and is also third in the OAC in the triple jump (10.68m).
Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 11th season as the head women's track and field coach at ONU … He owns a 462-137-2 overall indoor record, a winning percentage of .770.