Tuesday, March 11, 2003
GREYHOUNDS SENDING THREE STUDENT-ATHLETES TO NCAA DIVISION III INDOOR
TRACK & FIELD
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
BETHLEHEM, PA --- Moravian College will have three student-athletes, two females and
one male, representing the school in four events at the 2003 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field
National Championships to be hosted by DePauw University on Friday, March 14th and Saturday,
March 15th at DePauw’s Indoor Tennis and Track Center in Greencastle, Indiana.
Sophomore Kirsten Rotzell (Bangor, PA/Bangor HS) and junior Christina
Scherwin (Denmark) will represent the Moravian women’s team while junior Joe
Moore (Andover, NJ/Newton HS) will represent the men’s squad.
Rotzell, who won the 2003 Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor titles in
the long jump and triple jump with MAC record jumps, will compete in the same events at
the national championships. Rotzell is ranked eighth in the long jump
at 5.67 meters (18 feet, 7 ¼ inches) entering the meet, and she is 13th in the triple
jump at 11.52 meters (37 feet, 9 ½ inches). Rotzell is slated to
compete in the long jump at 11:30 a.m. on Friday and in the triple jump at 1:00 p.m. on
Saturday.
Scherwin, who is the defending NCAA Division III National Champion in
the javelin, won her second straight MAC title in the shot put with a record toss of 13.70
meters (44 feet, 11 ½ inches), which ranks her eighth heading into the national
championships. Scherwin will compete at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
Moore, who was named the Most Outstanding Performer at the MAC Championships
after winning three MAC titles, the long jump, the 200-meter dash and the 55-meter dash,
enters the national championship ranked first in the long jump. Moore is
the only automatic qualifier in the event and his distance of 7.38 meters (24 feet, 2 ½ inches)
is the only jump in Moravian indoor history to exceed 24 feet. Moore is
slated to compete at 2:30 p.m. on Friday.
Since reinstating its track & field programs back in the 1980s, Moravian has sent
nearly 150 student-athletes to the NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field
National Championships. The Greyhounds have had over 60 All-Americans, and six of Moravian’s
seven individual national champions are from the track & field program. Moravian’s
women’s team has won eight straight MAC indoor titles and 11 overall, and the squad
has won ten consecutive outdoor championships while the men’s team has three indoor
and three outdoor MAC titles.
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