The Basics
Event: ODAC Outdoor Championship
Location: Harrisonburg, Va. | Eastern Mennonite T&F Complex
The Lead: Ophelia Ladner broke her own school record while winning the 400m hurdles, and the 4x400 relay also took first as the Roanoke women's track & field team finished fourth overall at the conference outdoor meet.
Highlights:
- The Maroons' team total of 111 points landed them just shy of third-place Bridgewater (116 points). Washington and Lee won the title with 206 points, and Lynchburg finished second with 165 markers.
- Ladner shaved over a full second off of her own Roanoke record in the 400m hurdles, running a race-winning time of 1:01.93. That mark set a new ODAC championship meet record, and it currently ranks ninth in NCAA Division III.
- Ladner was also part of the victorious 4x400 relay squad, joining forces with Mae Kaufman, Maryrose Molina-Shuman and Lindsey Hobin to cross the tape first in 3:55.53.
- Claudia Disbrow finished as the runner-up in the javelin, earning All-ODAC honors with a mark of 36.62m.
- Hobin placed second in the 200m, collecting an all-conference citation with a time of 25.29 seconds. Eleanor Hinckley came in seventh at 26.01.
- Roanoke's 4x100 relay team of Hinckley, Kaufman, Hobin and Nalonda Henderson garnered All-ODAC laurels with a third-place finish in 47.52 seconds.
- The Maroons went 3-4-5 in both the 100m hurdles and the 400m. In the former event, Olivia Viers picked up an all-conference honor with a third-place mark of 14.93 seconds, while Rebecca Carr (15.07) and Cammi Winston (15.43) came in fourth and fifth.
- Molina-Shuman earned all-conference laurels with a third-place time of 58.78 seconds in the 400m. Kaufman (59.18) and Hobin (59.25) finished in fourth and fifth place.
- Henderson grabbed an All-ODAC award in the 100m, coming in third in 12.35 seconds. Hinckley's time of 12.52 seconds was good for the eighth spot.
- Tasha Miller placed fifth in the pole vault with a height of 3.22m.
- Winston scored in the triple jump, finishing fifth at 11.05m.
- McKenna Riolo also scored for the Maroons in the 400m hurdles, placing seventh with a personal-best time of 1:10.10.
- Roanoke's bevy of All-ODAC awards from the weekend also included Sarah Fuchs' runner-up finish in the hammer throw on Friday.
Up Next: The Maroons will have athletes in action at the University of Lynchburg's Hill City Twilight on Friday.