BC's Womack, W&L's Lee Earn Top Individual Honors

LYNCHBURG, Va. --- Bridgewater College put another feather in its cap on Saturday afternoon in Lynchburg as the Eagles took home both team titles from the ODAC Outdoor Track & Field Championshps for the first time in program history.  The dual victory completes a season sweep of conference crowns in 2015-16 as the Eagles add these two trophies to the pair they hoisted following the ODAC indoor championships in February.

Bridgewater sprinter and jumper Davonta Womack took home a pair of men's special awards as he was tabbed the ODAC Athlete of the Meet and ODAC Rookie of the Year.  Washington and Lee University sprinter and jumper Dana Lee secured the women's ODAC Athlete of the Meet honor, while teammate Samantha Yates received ODAC Rookie of the Year accolades.  BC mentor Brian Flynn garnered the ODAC Coach of the Year laurels on the men's side, while the women's top coaching award went to Roanoke College's Finn Pincus. Eastern Mennonite University swept the ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete awards as Tyler Denlinger and Hannah Chappell-Dick repeated their efforts from the indoor campaign.

Full Meet Results

Five total championship meet records were broken over two days at Lynchburg's Shellenberger Field.  In addition to the 10,000-meter run and 3,000-meter steeplechase standards set by LC's Andrew Osborne (31:49.56) and Roanoke College's Harrison Toney (9:21.67) on Friday, a pair of women's benchmarks and one new men's standard were established.  Washington and Lee University's Ian McDonald bested the 1,500-meter run record by 0.64-seconds with a winning time of 3:56.27. Eastern Mennonite University's Hannah Chappell-Dick broke her own mark in the 800-meter run with a new standard of 2:11.80.  The final standard came in the women's 4x400-meter relay.  Roanoke's team of Mackenzie Davignon, Alexis Janney, Brynn MacDougall, and Erin McGovern snapped their own previous record by 0.27-seconds at 3:54.07.

Womack, a freshman from Roanoke, Va., won three events and contributed 30 points towards Bridgewater's final team total.  The most recent ODAC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week opened his account with a victory in the long jump with a conference season-best leap of 7.07 meters.  He added gold medals in two sprints, winning the 100-meter dash in 0:10.92 and the 200-meter dash in 0:22.15.

Lee, a junior from Nashville, Tenn., accounted for 35 points for the Generals as she competed in and placed in the top-four in five events. She won the long jump at 5.64 meters and placed second in the triple jump after bounding 11.04 meters. Lee chimed in fourth in the 400-meter dash in 0:56.97, and added a fourth-place showing in the 200-meter dash in 0:25.54. She also joined her teammates in the 4x400-meter relay and helped W&L to third in 4:02.92.

Yates, a freshman from Birmingham, Ala., stopped the watches in the top-three in the two events in which she competed. Yates won the 5,000-meter run late in the day on Saturday, posting a time of 18:34.86.  She finished third in the 1,500-meter run, crossing the line in 4:46.93 to secure six of the 16 total points attributed to her performances.

Below is a chart of the event winners from the ODAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships.  For more on ODAC Outdoor Track & Field, visit the websites of any of the participating schools, or go to the ODAC's home on the Internet at www.odaconline.com.  Don't forget to become a fan of the ODAC on Facebook, or follow @odacathletics on Twitter.