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Lynchburg College > Current Students > Athletics > 2009-10 News Releases > Archived Releases > 2006-07 Releases > Track and Field > Hornet Men Win 10th Straight ODAC Indoor Track title Women Take Third
Hornet Men Win 10th Straight ODAC Indoor Track title Women Take Third |
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| VaSID Recognizes 194 Virginia Student-Athletes - Mary Mohay Named CoSIDA Academic First-Team All-District - LC’s Andy Rollins Named ODAC Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year - Travis Wray Places 12th in NCAA 1,500 - Andy Rollins Earns All-American Honors - Travis Wray Qualifies for NCAA Finals in 1,500 - Two Hornets to Compete at NCAA Track & Field Nationals - Hornet Track Competes at LU Twilight - Hornet Men Win 10th-Straight ODAC T&F Title - LC Track Classic concludes - Day One of LC Track Classic in the Books - Three Hornets Earn All-ODAC Player of the Week Honors - Hornet Track Competes at North Carolina A&T - Hornet Track Travels to North Carolina A&T and Duke - Hornet Men Compete at Liberty - Hornet Track Hosts LC Invite - Ryan Holmes Named ODAC Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year - Hornet Track Opens Outdoor Season at Coastal Carolina - Ryan Holmes Wins NCAA All-American Honors - Dr. Jack Toms Named South Region Track Coach of the Year - Two Hornet Teams Ranked in NCAA Division III Top 20 - Lynchburg Track Competes at Va. Tech Last Chance Meet - Hornet Men Win 10th Straight ODAC Indoor Track title Women Take Third - Hornet Track Runs at Virginia Tech - LC Track Travels to CNU - Hornet Track and Field Competes at UNC and VMI - Hornet Track Competes at Liberty - Hornet Track Competes at Marietta - Holmes and Funderburke Earn ODAC Athlete of the Week Honors - Hornet Indoor Track Finishes at Va. Tech - Hornet Track Competes at Day One at Va. Tech - Hornet Indoor Track Opens 2006-07 Season at Liberty - BC on Hornets’ Heels, W&L Follows Up Maroons - James Goss Named Women's Track Coach - Hornet Alum Doug Thomasey Tackles Double Decathlon - LC Men Repeat as ODAC Outdoor Track Champions – Women Finish Fourth - LC Track Competes at Duke Invitational - LC Track at Duke Invitational - Chris Martin Earns ODAC Male Athlete of the Week Honors - Hornet Track Qualifies Four for Nationals at Liberty - LC Track at Emory Invite - LC Track & Field Opens Outdoor Season - LC's athletic fields are headed for an extreme makeover - Lynchburg Men and Roanoke Women Top ODAC Outdoor Track Polls |
For immediate release – 2/24/2007 - #203 LYNCHBURG, VA – The Lynchburg College men’s indoor track and field team won its 10th straight conference title Saturday at the 2007 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship, hosted by Liberty University. The Hornet women’s team placed third in the five-team field. Sophomore Ricky Flynn (Gaithersburg, MD/Damascus) was named the Most Valuable Performer of the Meet, and Hornet mentor Dr. Jack Toms was named the ODAC Men’s Coach of the Year, the 60th time in his track and cross country career that he has been recognized as the conference’s top coach. Junior Scott Decker (Clifton, VA/Robinson) was voted by the conference’s sports information directors as the ODAC Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year and junior Mary Mohay (Fairfax, VA/Robinson) earned the ODAC Female Scholar Athlete of the Year. The LC men won the meet with 181.50 points, followed by Bridgewater College with 107 and Eastern Mennonite University with 83 points. Flynn won the 5,000 meter run in 15:20.30 and took second in the mile in 4:25.08. Senior Ryan Holmes (Glen Allen, VA/JR Tucker) won the 55-meter hurdles in 8.03 and the triple jump with a leap of 45’7" and took fourth in the high jump - clearing six feet. Travis Wray (Newburg, MD/La Plata) won the mile run in 4:24.99, Rory Lee-Washington won the weight throw with a top heave of 54"7 1/4" and Decker won the pole vault, clearing 15’7". Brian Wright (Hardy, VA/Franklin County) won the high jump, leaping 6’4" and Chris Martin (Roanoke, VA/Patrick Henry) placed second in the triple jump (43’5") and fourth in the long jump (21’3 1/2"). Earl Graves (Richmond, VA/Hermitage) finished third in the 200-meter dash (22.92) and the 400-meter dash (50.52). It is the Hornet men’s 33rd crown in the last 35 championship meets, counting both indoor and outdoor titles. Roanoke won the women’s title, narrowing outscoring second-place Washington & Lee 174 to 161 points, followed by Lynchburg with 63. Mohay won the women’s pole vault – clearing 10’10", and Sarah Funderburke (Fredericksburg, VA/Courtland) took third in both the 200-meter dash in 26.65 and the 400-meter dash in 59.24. Amanda Diver (Boxford, MA/Masconomet) took third in the 800 meters (2:26.97), Heather Jones (Manassas, VA/Osbourn Park) was third in the weight throw (40’11 3/4") and Heather Shaw (Alpine, NJ/Tenafly) was third in the pole vault (9’4 1/4"). ### |