INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. --- ODAC athletes collected seven All-American honors on the first day of competition at the 2023 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday. Four conference records feature new benchmarks with the majority of the league's 16-person contingent in action at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala.
In addition to the "lucky number" of All-American honors, Bridgewater College's Adalia Coleman is deep into her 60-meter dash title defense after posting the event's best time through preliminaries on Friday. She will compete in that discipline plus the 200-meter dash in a handful of finals events on Saturday.
List below are links to full results and as well as a round-up of the day's competition for athletes from ODAC schools.
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- ADALIA COLEMAN | BRIDGEWATER
- Women's 60m Dash Prelims: the reigning national champ took the first step toward defending her title by posting the prelims best time at 7.54 seconds; Saturday's finals are scheduled for 12:10 p.m. ET
- Women's 200m Dash Prelims: Coleman posted the fourth-fastest time of the prelims at 24.69 seconds to qualify for the finals; Kianne Benjamin from Bowdoin notched the best time at 24.50; Saturday's finals are set for 5:25 p.m. ET
- MICHAEL SMITH | BRIDGEWATER
- Men's Weight Throw: Smith finished fourth overall to earn All-American honors at 19.13 meters (62-9.25); that mark is a new Bridgewater record
- RAY RAY TAYLOR | EASTERN MENNONITE
- Women's Pentathlon: Taylor just missed All-America status by placing ninth with 3,436 points; Logan Bruce from Ithaca won with 3,748 points; Taylor finished first in the shot put (11.78m), eighth in the 800m run (2:29.02), ninth in the long jump (5.32m), 14th in the 60-meter hurldes (9.41), and 18th in the high jump (1.49m)
- LYNCHBURG - MEN'S DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY
Frank Csorba, Jacob Hodnett, Tor Hotung-Davidsen, Sam Llaneza
- Lynchburg's unit broke its own ODAC record for the second time in as many weeks and earned All-American honors with a time of 9:49.53 to finish fourth overall in an exceedingly competitive final; SUNY Geneseo won the event at 9:49.39
- TOR HOTUNG-DAVIDSEN | LYNCHBURG
- Men's 800m Run Prelims: Hotung-Davidsen posted the third-fastest time in the prelims at 1:51.67 to earn a spot in Saturday's finals; Mike Jasa from Loras is the top qualifier at 1:50.62; the finals are set for 4:50 p.m. ET
- ANIYA SEWARD | LYNCHBURG
- Women's 60m Hurdles Prelims: Seward reset her own ODAC record for a second time this season at 8.65 seconds, the seventh-fastest time of the preliminary heats; Birgen Nelson from Gustavus Adolphus set the bar at 8.48 seconds; Saturday's finals will begin at 11:40 a.m. ET
- Women's Triple Jump: competition in the triple jump begins at 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday
- HAILEY SMITH | LYNCHBURG
- Women's 800m Run Prelims: Smith posted a new personal-best time of 2:13.07 in the prelims, finishing 13th overall and a few spots shot of qualifying for the finals; Emma Kelley from Washington University in St. Louis posted D-III's best time of the season at 2:08.78
- BRADY FOWLER | ROANOKE
- Men's 60m Dash Prelims: Fowler tied for 17th in the prelims at 6.92 seconds, just 0.10 off the final qualifying mark; Sam Blaskowski from UW-La Crosse posted the best time at 6.67 seconds
- KIARA FELSTON | SHENANDOAH
- Women's Weight Throw: Felston cracked 17 meters for the third time this season in placing 11th overall 17.01 meters (55-9.75); Skye Digman from UW-La Crosse won the event at 19.19 meters
- TUCKER KINDIG | SHENANDOAH
- Men's Weight Throw: the ODAC record is Kindig's yet again as he crushed his previous mark (19.27m) with a toss of 19.66 meters (64-6.00) to finish third overall and earn All-American recognition; Joseph White from Carthage won the event at 21.41 meters
- MILES MOORE | SHENANDOAH
- Men's 200m Dash Prelims: Moore finished 14 places higher than his seeded entry point (19th) in posting the fifth fastest qualifying time at 21.47 seconds, crushing his own ODAC record in the process; Cheichna Traore from Ramapo posted the best time at 21.17 seconds which, along with Sam Blaskowski's (UW-La Crosse) time of 21.20 seconds, snapped the D-III championship record; Saturday's finals are set for 5:15 p.m. ET
- GENI ROBERTS | VIRGINIA WESLEYAN
- Men's Long Jump: Roberts is an All-American and national runner-up for a second straight season with his leap of 7.36 meters (24-1.75) coming up just shy of gold medalist Kenneth Wei from MIT (7.39m); Roberts' mark snapped the VWU record and is just 0.07 meters off the conference record
- Men's Triple Jump: the finals of the men's triple jump at set for 3:00 p.m. ET on Saturday
- KATELYN GAMBLE | WASHINGTON AND LEE
- Women's 60m Dash Prelims: Gamble finished 15th overall in the 60m dash prelims at 7.72 seconds, just 0.07 seconds shy of the final qualifying mark; Bridgewater's Adalia Coleman posted the best prelim time at 7.54 seconds
- CAROLYN TODD | WASHINGTON AND LEE
- Women's 5K Run: Todd finished 18th overall with a time of 17:32.39; Fiona Smith from St. Benedict won the event at 16:33.79