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BC's Coleman Defends Title, Highlights Day Two at NCAA Track & Field Championships

BC's Coleman Defends Title, Highlights Day Two at NCAA Track & Field Championships
Posted: Mar 11, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. --- Bridgewater College speedster Adalia Coleman successfully defended her indoor title as the "Division III's fastest woman" by repeating as the national champion in the 60-meter dash to headline the final day of action at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday. ODAC athletes added seven more All-American honors to the seven laurels collected on Friday.

Coleman matched her prelims time of 7.54 seconds in the 60-meter finals to secure one of two All-American honors on the day. She finished sixth in the 200-meter dash, making her one of four conference competitors to earn multiple All-American awards at the Birmingham CrossPlex. The other three are Virginia Wesleyan University jumper Geni Roberts and University of Lynchburg mid-distance/distance runners Frank Csorba and Tor Hotung-Davidsen.

Roberts, who finished as the runner-up in the long jump on Friday, added a bronze medal to his trophy case with a third-place showing in the triple jump on Saturday. Hotung-Davidsen was a part of Lynchburg's fourth-place distance medley relay team on day one. He upped the ante on day two, donning a silver medal with a second place finish in the 800-meter run. Csorba was also a member of the Hornets DMR squad. He blazed up the lists in the men's 3,000-meter run, finishing 11 spots better than his seeding position (19th) to chime in eighth overall.

Lynchburg's Aniya Seward and Shenandoah University's Miles Moore accounted for the remaining two All-American awards. Seward placed seventh in the 60-meter hurdles, while Moore chimed in eighth in the 200-meter dash.

Listed below are links to full results and as well as a round-up of the competition for athletes from ODAC schools throughout the Championships.

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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
    • Women's 60m Dash Finals: the title defense is complete as Coleman again ran 7.54 seconds to win the event for a second straight season; All-American honors are hers yet again
    • 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
    • Women's 200m Dash Finals: Coleman added a second All-American honor to her weekend haul with a sixth place finish at 24.80 seconds; Kenadee Wayt from Mount Union won the event at 24.31 seconds, the best time in D3 this season
  • 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
  • FRANK CSORBA | LYNCHBURG
    • Men's 3K Run: Csorba entered the 3K finals with the 19th-best seed time, but he turned that into an eighth place finish to earn All-American honors with a new ODAC record time of 8:09.08; his time, as well as those of the first nine finishers, snapped the previous championship mark; Ethan Gregg from UW-La Crosse won the event at 8:01.23
  • 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
    • Men's 800m Run Finals: Hotung-Davidsen improved both his time and placement from the preliminaries as he finished as the national runner-up and secure All-American honors with a time of 1:50.01; Mike Jasa from Loras won the event at 1:49.30, a championship record
  • 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 60m Hurdles Finals: Seward secured All-America status by placing seventh overall at 8.85 seconds; Birgen Nelson from Gustavus Adolphus won the event at 8.39 seconds, a new champs record
    • Women's Triple Jump: Seward came up 0.08 meters off All-America status as she finished 10th at 11.67 meters (38-3.50); Victoria Kadiri from Johns Hopkins won the event at 13.18m, snapping all D-III records
  • 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; Cheickna 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
    • Men's 200m Dash Finals: Moore claimed All-American honors with an eighth place finish at 21.85 seconds; Cheickna Traore won the event at 20.72, snapping all D-III records
  • 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: Add a bronze medal to Roberts' silver in the long jump as he finished third in the triple at 14.96m (49-1.00), his second All-American honor of the championships; Jonathan Wilburn from UW-Oshkosh won the event at 15.56m, best in D-III this season
  • 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