1st of 9 at NCAC championship

May 3-4, 2007

Junior Ashley Shaffer (Lancaster) won 3 events, freshman Casey Ridgeway (Fredericktown) won 2 events, and both helped a relay team to a first-place finish to lead Ohio Wesleyan to the North Coast Athletic Conference championship on Thursday and Friday at Selby Field and the George Gauthier Track.

Ohio Wesleyan won the meet with 237 points to 228 for Allegheny. Oberlin finished third with 101 points, followed by Wooster (75 1/2), Earlham (75), Denison (48 1/2), Wittenberg (40), Hiram (7) and Kenyon (6).
Final Results
Thursday Results

The championship is Ohio Wesleyan's first in women's outdoor track & field since 1998 and marks the first time since 1991 that Ohio Wesleyan swept both women's indoor and outdoor track & field titles.

Shaffer won the heptathlon title with 4407 points and won the 400-meter dash in :57.21, surpassing the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division III championship meet in both events; and won the triple jump with a leap of 36-11. Shaffer also won All-NCAC honors with a second-place finish in the high jump and a third-place finish in the 200-meter dash, and added a sixth in the long jump. She also anchored Ohio Wesleyan's first-place 1600-meter relay team, which won its event in 3:57.98, also setting school and NCAC records and surpassing the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division III championship meet.

Ridgeway won the 100- and 200-meter dashes in respective times of :12.35 and :25.04. Her time of :25.04 in the 200-meter dash set school and NCAC records and surpassed the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division III championship meet. She anchored the Bishops' second-place 400-meter relay team and led off Ohio Wesleyan's first-place 1600-meter relay team, which won its event in 3:57.98, also setting school and NCAC records and surpassing the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division III championship meet. Ridgeway was named NCAC Sprinter/Hurdler of the Year and is pictured at right, receiving her award from NCAC commissioner Dennis Collins.

Joining Shaffer and Ridgeway on the Bishops' record-setting 1600-meter relay team were freshman Sarah Shinn (Edinboro, Pa./General McLane) and freshman Kara Reiter (Chardon), while freshman Ashlie Britton (LeRoy/Painesville Riverside), sophomore Jessica Merrill (Columbia Station/Columbia) and freshman Erica Wehner (London/Jonathan Alder) joined Ridgeway in winning All-NCAC honors as part of Ohio Wesleyan's 400-meter relay team.

Also winning events for Ohio Wesleyan were Shinn, sophomore Catie Coleman (Medina/Lodi Cloverleaf), freshman Sharon Rymut (Broadview Heights/Brecksville-Broadview Heights), and senior Louise Stepp (Hamilton/Fairfield).

Shinn won the 800-meter run in 2:14.96, breaking the NCAC record of 2:15.62 set in 1999, and was fourth in the 1500-meter run. Coleman won the 3000-meter steeplechase in 11:19.95, shaving nearly 10 seconds off the school record she set in 2006, and added a fifth in the 5000-meter run. Rymut won the discus with a throw of 130-1 and won All-NCAC honors with a third-place finish in the hammer. Stepp won the high jump by clearing 5-4 1/4.

All-NCAC honors also went to senior Ericka Newell (Delaware/Hayes), who finished second in the long jump and added a fifth in the high jump and a sixth in the 100-meter hurdles; Britton, who placed third in the 100- and 400-meter hurdles; and freshman Claire Everhart (Edinboro, Pa./General McLane), who finished third in the 1500-meter run.

Other standouts for the Bishops included Merrill, who finished fourth in the heptathlon, fifth in the triple jump and long jump, and seventh in the high jump; junior Malley Adamsky (McMurray, Pa./Peters Township), who was fourth in the javelin; sophomore Laura Binkley (Columbus/Bishop Watterson), who finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run; senior Amy Fabritius (Middlefield/Cardinal), who was fifth in the pole vault; sophomore Leah Schmelzer (Marion/Pleasant), who placed fifth in the 10,000-meter run; junior Caitlin Dugre (Longmeadow, Mass.), who finished fifth in the javelin; senior Amanda Husted (Springfield/Greenon), who was fifth in the 3000-meter steeplechase; senior Marie Rymut (Broadview Heights/Brecksville-Broadview Heights), who placed seventh in the discus; freshman Angela Bertelli (Longmeadow, Mass.), who placed eighth in the heptathlon; Wehner, who finished eighth in the 100-meter dash; freshman Rowena Jones (Shutesbury, Mass./Amherst Regional), who was eighth in the 400-meter hurdles; and freshman Allie Crawford (Powell/Dublin Scioto), who placed eighth in the hammer.

Women's Sprinter/Hurdler of the Year
Casey Ridgeway, Ohio Wesleyan
won 100 and 200, ran on first-place 1600 and second-place 400 relays

Women's Middle Distance/Distance Runner of Year
Katie Wiefrich, Wooster
won 5000 and 10,000

Women's Field Event Performer of the Year
Liz Earley, Allegheny
won hammer and shot put, second in discus, seventh in javelin

Women's Coach of the Year
Kris Boey, Ohio Wesleyan

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