Moravian women’s track won its 10th straight Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Championship with 10 points at the 2005 Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships held at Susquehanna University. Moravian senior Kirsten Rotzell (Bangor, PA/Bangor HS) was named the Most Outstanding Performer, for the second time in her career, at the meet while head coach Doug Pollard earned MAC Coach of the Year honors. Rotzell won the long jump with a leap of 5.47 meters (17 feet, 11 1/2 inches), and she captured first in the triple jump at 11.23 meters (36 feet, 10 1/4 inches). Both distances are provisional qualifiers for the 2005 NCAA Division Indoor National Championships, and this is the fourth straight year in which Rotzell’s best distance was 11.70 meters (38 feet, 4.75 inches) for the triple jump at the 8th Annual Bison Open. Rotzell won both events at the MAC Indoor Championships. Rotzell also finished third in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.49 seconds after running a time of 7.46 seconds in the trials. She was also fourth in the 200-meter dash in 26.80 seconds.

Moravian had four other individual champions with sophomore Erin Recker (Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua HS) winning the 55-meter dash in a Moravian College and a meet record time of 7.26 seconds, which provisionally qualifies for the NCAA meet. She had a time of 7.31 seconds in the preliminaries. Recker also won the 200-meter dash in 26.29 seconds. Sophomore Suzanne Tamlyn (Wappingers Falls, NY/Wallkill HS) captured the 400-meter dash in a school record time of 59.97 seconds while senior Heather McGarvie (Medford, NJ/Shawnee HS) won the 800-meter run in 2:19.58. The Greyhounds 4x200-meter relay team of Recker, Tamlyn, Rotzell and sophomore Kathleen McCarron (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) won first place with a Moravian College record and an MAC record time of 1:46.06. McGarvie, Tamlyn, senior Margaret Benny (Tamaqua, PA/Tamaqua HS) and sophomore Amy Reehil (Roselle, NJ/Roselle Catholic HS) also set a Moravian record in the 4x400-meter relay while placing second in a time of 4:06.27.

In the other relay events, the Greyhounds' 4,000-meter distance medley relay squad of senior Kellie Smith (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge HS), junior Lauren Bahnatka (West Chester, PA/Henderson HS) and freshmen Krystyn Fenon (Palmerton, PA/Lehighton HS) and Theresa Zataveski (Quakertown, PA/Gwynedd Mercy Academy) was third in a time of 13:14.42. Moravian's 4x800-meter relay squad of Smith, Fenon, Zataveski and junior Alexis Vergalla (Glen Gardner, NJ/ Voorhees HS) placed sixth in a time of 10:33.38.

Benny took second in the 55-meter dash with a time of 8.59 seconds after a time of 8.69 seconds in the preliminaries while McCarron was sixth in the 55-meter dash in a time of 7.57 seconds after a time of 7.55 seconds in the trials. McCarron also finished sixth in the 200-meter dash at 27.30 seconds while Benny also placed seventh in the 400-meter dash in a time of 1:03.03. Benny had her best time of 7.83 seconds at the Susquehanna Orange & Maroon Classic.

In the distance events, senior Chelsea Mullins (Jim Thorpe, PA/Jim Thorpe HS) was third in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 18:32.03. Her best time was 17:48.21 at the 17th Annual Bucknell Winter Classic. Senior Kim Bushner (Allentown, PA/Dieruff HS) took 11th in a time of 20:26.85 while Bahnatka placed 12th in 20:33.86 and freshman Katie Pulizzano (Allentown, PA/William Allen HS) finished 13th in a time of 20:34.53. Smith placed ninth in the 800 meters in 2:29.63.

McCarron was second in the long jump with a leap of 5.22 meters (17 feet, 1 1/2 inches), and she placed eighth in the triple jump with a distance of 10.01 meters (32 feet, 10 1/4 inches). Junior Lynsey Boggess (Washinton Township, NJ/Immaculate Heart Academy) finished second in the high jump at 1.52 meters (five feet). Junior Rebecca Moore (Easton, PA/Easton HS) finished second in the pole vault, clearing 3.04 meters (ten feet) while freshman Jessica Cianci (Sussex, NJ/Vernon Township HS) was 12th at 2.59 meters (eight feet, six inches). Cianci had her best distance at the 17th Annual Bucknell Winter Classic with 2.95 meters (9 feet, 8 inches). Freshman Ashlee Scarborough (Warrington, PA/Villa Joseph Marie HS) was 15th in the long jump at 4.38 meters (14 feet, 4 1/2 inches) while Zataveski took 16th with a leap of 4.23 meters (13 feet, 10 1/2 inches).

In the throwing events, senior Julie Anderson (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty HS) placed second in the 20-pound weight throw with a toss of 13.34 meters (43 feet, 9 1/4 inches). Her best throw was 14.27 meters (46 feet, 10 inches) at the Lafayette College Indoor Meet. Sophomore Tammy Balliet (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) took seventh place in a distance of 11.00 meters (36 feet, 1 1/4 inches). Balliet also placed tenth in the shot with a toss of 9.77 meters (32 feet, 3/4 inch). Her best throw in the shot put was 10.43 meters (34 feet, 3 inches) at the 6th Annual Dick DeSchriver Invitational.

McGarvie, Recker and Rotzell went on to the 2005 NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University. In the preliminaries McGarvie placed fifth in her heat and 13th overall in the mile run with a time of 5:07.33 while Recker took fifth in her heat and tenth overall in the 55-meter dash in a school record time of 7.23 seconds. Neither competitor advanced to Saturday's finals. Rotzell placed sixth in her flight and 13th overall in the triple jump preliminaries. Rotzell had a distance of 11.12 meters (36 feet, 5 3/4 inches) in her fifth trip to the NCAA Championships.