| 2008
Honors
Mitchell,
Parnell named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes
Ashley Mitchell, McPherson
College senior from Great Bend, Kan., and Amy Parnell, junior from
Liberal, Kan., were named recently as NAIA/Daktronics Outdoor Track
& Field Scholar-Athletes for the 2008 season.
Mitchell set new school records
in the 3,000m steeplechase and 10,000 meters this past season. A
2005 graduate of Great Bend (Kan.) High School and in her third
year of attendance at McPherson College, Ashley was a senior academically
and graduated in May with a degree in graphic design.
Parnell, a 2005 graduate
of Liberal High School, competed in collegiate track & field
for the first time this spring, running on the Lady Bulldogs' 4x100
and 4x400 relays.
“We were please to have Ashley
and Amy named to the Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete team.”
“We appreciate their leadership
in the classroom as well as their contributions to the team and
our campus community.”
Recipients of the Daktronics-NAIA
Scholar-Athlete award must have a minimum grade point average of
3.50 on a 4.00 scale, be a junior or above in academic standings,
and been in attendance at the nominating institution a minimum of
one full school year.
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Bullodgs earn All-KCAC track & field honors
Three
members of the McPherson College track and field team received 2008
All-KCAC first team honors for their individual placing among the
top three finishers of the KCAC track and field championships held
May 2nd and 3rd at Friends University in Wichita, Kan.
Jordan King
Zane Walker
Brent Bailey
Leading
the way for the Bulldogs was double-second place finisher Jordan
King (JR, Limon, Colo.) in the 110-meter high hurdles.
King had previously received honorable mention All-KCAC recognition
in the high hurdles as a freshman.
Zane
Walker
(SR, Eckley, Colo., Yuma HS) earned All-KCAC first team honors with
his third place finish in the high jump. 2008 marked Walker 's fourth
season to earn All-KCAC honors in the high jump.
Brent
Bailey
(JR, Limon, Colo.) brought home the Bulldogs' third All-KCAC first
team award by placing third in the 1,500 meters. This was Bailey's
second, first team award in the metric mile, his first coming as
a freshman in 2006.
Nine
Bulldog men and four women combined to earn All-KCAC honorable mention
recognition in 11 events.
Earning
individual honorable mention All-KCAC honors for finishing fourth
was freshman Princeton Summerville (FR, Kansas
City, Kan.) in the 100 and 200 meter dashes and sophomore Shaun
Griffin ((SO, Inman, Kan.) in the 5,000 meters.
This
was Griffin 's second year to earn All-KCAC honors in the 5,000.
Griffin also earned honorable mention recognition by placing fifth
in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and sixth in the 1,500 meters.
For
the Lady Bulldogs, Roxane Ayres (FR, Culver, Kan.)
and Tricia Fensky (FR, Moundridge, Kan.) tied
for sixth in the pole vault to earn honorable mention recognition.
All
three men's relays and two women's relay finished in the top six
and earned honorable mention recognition.
The
men's 4x400 meters relay made up of Sean McCrae
(JR, Marietta, Ga.), Andrew Paull (SR, Kanopolis,
Kan.), Ben Cummins (FR, Buhler, Kan.), and Brent
Bailey earned honorable mention recognition with its fourth place
finish.
Placing
sixth were the Bulldog men's 4x100 meters relay of Mark
Watson (SO, St. Charles, Mo.), Shawn Young
(SR, Colorado Springs, Colo.), Austin Brown (FR,
Lawton, Okla.), and Summerville, and the 4x400 relay of McCrae,
Bailey, Cummins, and Young.
The
Lady Bulldogs' put the same four ladies on the track for both the
4x 100 and 4x400-meter relays. Fensky, Ayres, Tiffany Poet
(FR, Flagler, Colo.), and Micha LaJoie
(FR, Atchison, Kan ) placed fifth in the 4x100 and sixth in the
4x400 to earn honorable mention recognition.
Men's
First Team All-KCAC
placings and marks:
M
1,500 m 3. Brent Bailey 4:09.21
M
110m Hurdles 2. Jordan King 15.36
M
High Jump 3. Zane Walker 6-4
Men's
Honorable Mention
placings and marks:
M
100 m 4. Princeton Summerville 10.91
M
200 m 4. Princeton Summerville 22.11
M
1,500 m 6. Shaun Griffin 4:24.28
M
Steeplechase 5. Shaun Griffin 10:23.97
M
5,000 m 4. Shaun Griffin 16:42.63
M
4x100m Relay 6. McPherson 43.39 (Mark
Watson, Shawn Young, Austin Brown, Princeton Summerville)
M
4x400m Relay 6. McPherson 3:32.64 (Sean
McCrae, Brent Bailey, Ben Cummins, Shawn Young)
M
4x800m Relay 4. McPherson 8:40.33 (Sean
McCrae, Andrew Paull, Ben Cummins, Brent Bailey)
Women's
Honorable Mention plaings and marks:
W
4x100m Relay 5. McPherson 56.52 (Tricia
Fensky, Roxane Ayres, Tiffany Poet, Micah LaJoie)
W
4x400m Relay 6. McPherson 4:37.66 (Tiffany
Poet, Tricia Fensky, Roxane Ayres, Micah LaJoie)
W
Pole Vault 6t. Roxane Ayres 7-06
6t.
Tricia Fensky 7-06
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