ODAC Athletes of the Week | Indoor Track & Field

ODAC Athletes of the Week | Indoor Track & Field

FOREST, Va. --- More ODAC records and program standards went down over the past week as ODAC indoor track & field athletes continued to prepare for the upcoming ODAC Championships through Week 24.  Those earning ODAC Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week awards for Tuesday, February 14, include (picture, l-r): Tor Hotung-Davidsen and Hailey Smith from Lynchburg men's and women's track & field, Tucker Kindig from Shenandoah men's track & field, and Ray Ray Taylor from Eastern Mennonite women's track & field.

Below are entries for each of the winners from today's release. The schedule below will be used for reporting ODAC Athletes of the Week:

  • Mondays: basketball, baseball, men's lacrosse -- women's lacrosse, softball, and m/w tennis to join soon
  • Tuesdays: indoor track & field -- outdoor track & field when the indoor season concludes
  • Wednesdays: m/w golf once the spring season begins

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MEN'S INDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Tucker Kindig | Shenandoah | Gr. | Throws
Kindig, a graduate student from Spotsylvania, Va., picks up his second straight and third overall weekly award of the season following a strong outing at the River Hawk Friday Night Showdown hosted by Susquehanna University. Kindig, who already set the ODAC record (19.27m) in the weight throw earlier this season, won the event featuring 29 competitors with a toss of 18.77 meters (61-7.00). The only ODAC throws to beat that mark this season are his own. His toss of 18.77 meters would slot seventh-best in Division III this season. Kindig also placed fifth in the shot put at 13.60 meters (44-7.50).

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MEN'S INDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Tor Hotung-Davidsen | Lynchburg | Jr. | Mid-Distance
Hotung-Davidsen, a junior from Oakton, Va., earns his second weekly award after setting not just one but two ODAC records in his two events at the NCAA Division I heavy David Hemery Valentine Invitational hosted by Boston University. For the second time this season, Hotung-Davidsen reset the ODAC 800-meter run record. He finished 17th overall and second among Division III competitors with a time of 1:49.17. That time is the second-fastest in Division III this season. When converted to flat/200-meter track parameters for ODAC rankings, his converted time of 1:50.74 tops the conference by nearly four seconds. Hotung-Davidsen joined teammates Chasen Hunt, Marko Kovacevic, and Sam Llaneza in snapping ODAC record in the distance medley relay. They posted a 10th-place time of 9:53.93, which was the third-best D-III time at the meet. That time, which ranks seventh in the country, broke the ODAC record of 9:55.08 set by Lynchburg last season. Hotung-Davidsen and Llaneza were members of that squad. When converted for ODAC rankings, their time of 10:02.01 is more than 24 seconds faster than the next ODAC mark.

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WOMEN'S INDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Ray Ray Taylor | Eastern Mennonite | Sr. | Pentathlon
Taylor, a senior from Pottstown, Pa., picks up her third ODAC weekly award of the season after competing in the pentathlon at the Division II Indoor Track & Field Pre-Nationals hosted at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Va. Taylor posted 3,335 points to win the pentathlon against Division II competition with the ninth-best total in Division III this season. She posted ODAC top-five marks in all three field events of the pentathlon. She won the shot put at 11.38 meters (37-4.00), the fourth-best toss in the conference. She placed second in the high jump at 1.55 meters (5-1.00), tied for fourth in the league. She chimed in third in the long jump at 5.26 meters (17-3.25). She is already the ODAC leader in the event at 5.56 meters set earlier this season. Taylor won the 800-meter run at 2:30.07, which ranks just outside the ODAC's top-five narrowly off her best time of 2:29.45. She added a fourth-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles at 9.99 seconds, which is just off her season-best time of 9.59 seconds.

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WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Hailey Smith | Lynchburg | Fy. | Mid-Distance
Smith, a first-year from Lively, Va., went Lynchburg record-hunting in her two events at the Division I heavy David Hemery Valentine Invitational hosted by Boston University. Smith set a new Hornets record in the 800-meter dash with a time of 2:13.86. While that time was 102nd overall in the race, it was the fourth-best among Division III competitors and ranks 10th in the country this season. When converted for flat/200m track purposes for ODAC rankings, her converted time of 2:15.40 is #1 in the ODAC by more than six seconds. Smith joined teammates Lauren Massey, Madelyn Boyce, and Molly Silva in setting a new program record in the distance medley relay. Their time of 12:11.78 finished 30th overall and 12th among Division III competition and ranks 19th in the country. Their converted time of 12:19.61 is #1 in the ODAC more than 55 seconds.

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