Coleman Wins 60m Dash Crown, Seven All-American Awards Highlight NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships

Division III women's 60-meter dash champion Adalia Coleman poses with Bridgewater Director of Cross Country and Track & Field, Denver Davis, at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.
Division III women's 60-meter dash champion Adalia Coleman poses with Bridgewater Director of Cross Country and Track & Field, Denver Davis, at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.

WINSTON-SALEM, Va. --- Bridgewater College speedster Adalia Coleman captured gold in the women's 60-meter dash on Saturday at JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, N.C., highlighting the efforts of ODAC student-athletes that featured seven All-American awards following two days of competition at the NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships.

Virginia Wesleyan University jumper Geni Roberts earned a pair of All-American awards in the long and triple jumps, placing second in the former. Washington and Lee University senior Joe O'Connor took home silver in the men's pole vault to collect his high honor. Teammate Katelyn Gamble joined Coleman as sprint All-Americans in the 60-meter dash. University of Lynchburg men earned the remaining two All-American laurels in Sam Llaneza in the mile run and Tor Hotung-Davidsen in the 800-meter run.

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Gamble and Coleman were seeded first and second in Saturday's 60-meter dash finals after winning their heats in the prelims on Friday. Gamble reset her own W&L record at 7.60 seconds. On Saturday, Coleman won the event by 0.02 seconds at 7.61 seconds. She is the second ODAC competitor to win that event's gold medal, joining former Eagle Amber Celen's win in 2017. Gamble placed sixth at 7.67 seconds to earn All-All-American honors as a top-eight finisher.

Sprinters Adalia Coleman (left) and Katelyn Gamble compete in the finals of the 60-meter dash at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships. Roberts set new VWU records and ODAC season-best marks in both the long and triple jumps. On Friday in the long jump, his best distance of six attempts was 7.32 meters (24-0.25) to finish as the runner-up to Kenneth Wei (7.44m) from MIT. In the triple jump, Roberts chimed in sixth with his best leap of 14.69 meters (48-2.50) to secure his second All-American award of the championships and his second career All-American honor in the indoor event (2020).

O'Connor is also a two-time All-American in the indoor pole vault. The ODAC record-holder in the event matched Ben Drummey from the University of Southern Maine in clearing 5.05 meters (16-6.75). In the progression of determining placing in the pole vault, Drummey was awarded first place on fewer attempts at the highest common height, resulting in O'Connor earning silver. He is the highest finisher in the indoor event in ODAC men's history.

Hotung-Davidsen and Llaneza entered the weeked having set ODAC records in their respective events. In Friday's prelims, Hotung-Davidsen posted the fifth-best time in the 800-meter run at 1:52.78, just 1.03 seconds off his league benchmark. In the finals, he secured All-America status by finishing sixth at 1:54.39. Llaneza posted the fifth-fastest time in the mile run prelims at 4:09.95, a little over two seconds off his ODAC overall and championship record time (4;07.78). He claimed eighth place in the finals at 4:11.73 for his high honors.

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The ODAC's remaining seven competitors also showed well in Winston-Salem. Eastern Mennonite University mid-distance runner Isaac Alderfer placed 16th in the mile run prelims at 4:12.31. Fellow Royal Alijah Johnson sprinted his way to 17th in the men's 200-meter dash at 22.28 seconds.

Lynchburg's Aniya Seward competed in both the women's 60-meter hurdles and triple jump. In the hurdles prelims on Friday, she placed 10th overall at 8.83 seconds, just 0.04 seconds off her season-best mark. In the triple jump on Saturday, she finished 16th at 11.41 meters (37-5.25).

Fellow Hornet Stephanie Burnett competed in the 5,000-meter run. Burnett, who won both the 5K and 3,000-meter run at the ODAC Championships and earned ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete honors, placed 11th in the national 5K at 17:25.08.

Virginia Wesleyan duo Jaylyn Lane and Landry Moffo are ODAC record holders in their two events. Lane finished 18th in the triple jump on Saturday, posting a mark of 11.29 meters (37-0.50). Moffo capped his indoor season in 14th place in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.35 seconds.

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