Weather Thins Out Athlete Schedules
SALEM, Va. --- For the second time this winter,
the weather played a major role in the fate of the ODAC's indoor
athletic offerings as basketball games, swim meets and indoor track
invitationals were either postponed or cancelled across the
region. Nevertheless, several ODAC athletes performed well
despite the road-covering snowfalls and frigid temperatures.
Indoor track continued to gear up towards its championship at the
end of the month as the pentathlon (women) and heptathlon (men)
became members of the event schedules. On the women's side,
Lynchburg's Jessica Gibbs provisionally qualified for the NCAA
Division III Championships by winning the pentathlon by 34 points
(3,064 total points). For the men, Washington and Lee's Tyler
Grant was the first D-III athlete in the heptathlon rankings with a
school-record 4,020 points.
In men's basketball, Tyler Sanborn helped carry Guilford to a pair
of wins over Roanoke and #9 Randolph-Macon. Sanborn notched a
career-high 29 points at RC, adding 18 rebounds. He followed
that with 26 points and 13 boards against the Yellow Jackets.
He shot 75.9-percent for the week.
On the women's side, Jordan Burkholder helped Bridgewater to a
pair of conference wins, including the Eagles first victory at
Randolph-Macon since 2004. In the early game, she tallied a
game-high 17 points in a 75-42 win over Virginia Wesleyan at
home. She followed that with a season-high 28 points at R-MC,
19 of which coming in the second half when the Jackets mounted a
comeback.
Listed below is each of this week's ODAC Players of the Week.
Click the links to learn more about each athlete's performance and
some of the other top showings in the ODAC over the past seven
days. For more information, visit the ODAC on the Internet at
www.odaconline.com.
Men's
Basketball: Tyler Sanborn, Guilford College
Women's
Basketball: Jordan Burkholder, Bridgewater College
Swimming: Charlotte
Greenwood, Sweet Briar College
Men's Indoor
Track: Tyler Grant, Washington and Lee University
Women's Indoor
Track: Jessica Gibbs, Lynchburg College