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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Doug Roorbach, Sports Information
Director 585.567.9556
Highlanders Compete
at Indoor Nationals
 (Johnson
City, Tenn.)—Rachel Rhodes took second place in the women’s 3000M race
walk and seven other Houghton College athletes advanced to the finals of
their events at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’
National Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday.
Rhodes, a senior from Little Valley, N.Y.,
walked a 16:43.49 in the finals to take second place. Competing in the
same race, Chelsea Adams was disqualified for “losing contact” with the
ground—one of the rules of race walking.
Naomi Christensen advanced to the finals of the
women’s 600M by running a 1:35.97 in her qualifying heat. The time
placed her fifth among the runners, with the top eight advancing.
Darby Emerson (on the left in the picture
above) also advanced to the finals of her event—the women’s 800M—with a
time of 2:17.10. Her time was seventh best among the competitors.
Kaitlin Fadden ran a 10:34.99
in the women’s 3000M preliminaries to place seventh in her heat, and
grabbed the 12th and final spot in the finals.
Running in the semifinals of the men’s mile,
Dan Ballard put up a time of 4:23.82, but it wasn’t enough to put him
through to the finals.
Sarah Whipple ran a
9.81 in her heat of the 60M hurdles, which wasn’t enough to put her
through to the finals, either.
Zach Adams’ 15:15.31
in the men’s 3000M race walk finals placed him in 11th for
the event.
In competition on
Thursday evening, the Highlanders men’s distance medley relay ran a
10:14.79 to grab the eighth and final qualifying spot for the finals.
The relay team consists of Johnny Kimani, who ran the opening leg
(1200M); Steve Scott, who ran the 400M leg; Josiah Snelgrove (800M) and
Dan Ballard, who anchors the team with a 1600M leg.
The women’s 4 X 400M
relay team ran a 4:05.02, which put them in 17th position—not
good enough to advance to the finals. The team consisted of Emerson,
Lydia Parsons, Kaitlin Smith and Christensen.
Photo by Mary Gibson.
Houghton College
has deep
and
solid
roots in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, where our
teams use their commitment to excellence, both on the field-of-play
and
in the classroom, as a platform for their strong and
unique emphasis on Sports Ministry. Their goal is to make a difference
for the Kingdom
on campus, in Allegany County,
in the Northeast and
around
the world.
Houghton is one of only 13 institutions who have been hand-selected
by the NAIA to serve as "Champions of Character" Program Centers, opening the door
for Houghton to be a leader,
both in the Northeast and
nationally, in character education.
Through hands-on,
innovative community outreach initiatives, Houghton coaches and
student-athletes
are working together to change the culture of sport and
to change our culture through sport.
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