Sports News: Spring 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006

FORMER MORAVIAN JAVELIN NATIONAL CHAMPION CHRISTINA SCHERWIN NAMED TO THE U.S. TRACK & FIELD AND CROSS COUNTRY COACHES ASSOCIATION DIVISION III SILVER ANNIVERSARY TEAM

METAIRIE, LA --- To commemorate the 25th anniversary of women competing in the NCAA outdoor track and field championships, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) has selected a Division III Silver Anniversary Team which includes former Moravian College javelin national champion Christina Scherwin (Copenhagen, Denmark).

The first combined NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships were held in 1982 at North Central College in Napierville, Ill. Last month, the NCAA named Rhondale Jones of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) and Kim Oden of Nebraska Wesleyan University as the NCAA Division III Outstanding Student-Athletes in track and field for their accomplishments in NCAA competition. Jones won nine individual NCAA Division III outdoor titles in the sprints and hurdles. Oden won seven national titles in the high jump and heptathlon during her career at Nebraska Wesleyan.

To complement the NCAA all-time selections, a panel of USTFCCCA coaches selected a Silver Anniversary Team following this year’s Division III nationals in Lisle, Ill.

The Silver Anniversary Team consists of the outstanding individuals in each event as well as the top coach and most successful school for the past 25 years of NCAA Division III women’s outdoor track and field championships. Vince Brown of Christopher Newport University is the outstanding coach of the past 25 years. Wisconsin Oshkosh is the outstanding women’s program.

USTFCCCA Silver Anniversary Team
NCAA Division III outdoor track and field

100 meters
Rhondale Jones, Lincoln (Pa.). A 16-time All-American at Lincoln, Jones won three successive 100-meter titles from 1999-2001. She anchored Lincoln’s 4x100 relay team to titles in 1999 and 2000 and led the Lady Lions to national team titles in 1999 and 2000. She also won the 100-meter hurdles three times.

200 meters
Rhondale Jones, Lincoln (Pa.). Jones won Division III titles in the 200 three straight times beginning in 1999. Her 23.72 winning time in 1999 remains the championship record.

400 meters
Amber James, Wheaton (Mass.). James won four straight NCAA titles in the 400 from 2001-2004. Her winning time in 2004 (53.58) is the second-fastest in meet history.

800 meters
Liz Woodworth, Wisconsin Oshkosh. Woodworth won three national titles from 2002-2004, setting an NCAA meet record of 2:07.39 in 2004. She also won the 1,500 at the 2004 NCAA meet, setting a meet record (4:15.20) that still stands.

1,500 meters
Laura Horejs, Wisconsin Oshkosh. Horejs raced to NCAA titles in the metric mile in 1991 and 1992.

3,000 meters
Tammie Miller, Cortland State. Miller was a three-time national champion in the 3,000 (1992-93-4) for Cortland State.

5,000 meters
Missy Buttry, Wartburg. Perhaps the greatest female distance runner in Division III history, Buttry won the 5,000 three times in a row from 2003-2005. No other runner in meet history has come within 20 seconds of her 15:51.23 winning time in 2003.

10,000 meters
Kelly Copps, St. Thomas (Minn.) Copps was a three-time national champion in the 10,000 from 1993-95. She also won the 5,000 in 1994.

3,000-meter steeplechase
Amanda Kuca, Concordia (Wisc.). Kuca won this year’s national title in a meet-record time of 10:15.73, winning the race by more than eight seconds.

100 hurdles
Bridget Cochran, Christopher Newport. Cochran won three straight national titles beginning in 1996, running progressively faster times each year. Her winning time of 13.60 in 1998 remains the NCAA meet record.

400 hurdles
Carolyn Ross, Augsburg. Ross won national titles in 1988 and 1989. Her 58.99 clocking in 1989 is still the meet record.

4 x 100 relay
City College of New York (2006). The Beavers set a meet record of 45.98 in winning this year’s NCAA Division III title, shaving more than two-tenths of a second off the previous record. The team consisted of Mechelle Barnwell, Alecia Watson, Sharnalee Stewart and Jodyann Raymond.

4 x 400 relay
Massachusetts-Boston (1988). The Beacons set a meet record of 3:40.76 in winning the school’s fourth straight NCAA title in this event. The 1988 team consisted of Sonji Larts, Jackie James, Murtonda Durant and Genesia Eddins.

High jump
Kim Oden, Nebraska Wesleyan. Oden was a four-time NCAA outdoor champion in this event from 1989-92. Her winning height of 5-10¾ in 1992 is the second-best mark in meet history.

Pole vault
Kim Marino, Richard Stockton. Marino is the only athlete to top 13 feet in meet history, clearing 13-1¾ to win the 2003 title.

Long jump
Kristal Grigsby, St. Thomas (Minn.). Grigsby won NCAA titles in 2004 and 2006 and finished third in 2005. Her twin sister, Sheanna Grigsby, won three NCAA titles in 100 hurdles for Carthage College (2004-2006).

Triple jump
Darcell Edwards, McMurry. Edwards was a four-time NCAA outdoor champion in the triple jump from 2001-2004. Her winning mark of 42-0¾ in 2003 is the meet record.

Shot put
Robyn Jarocki, Wisconsin Oshkosh. Jarocki won her second national title in the shot put last month at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships. Jarocki also won NCAA outdoor titles in the discus (2005 and 2006) and hammer (2004).

Discus
Kristin Kuehl, Concordia Moorhead (Minn.). Kuehl won the 1993 NCAA title in the discus with a throw of 180-6, still the meet record. She won three NCAA discus championships and represented the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Hammer
Keelin Godsey, Bates. Godsey successfully defended her hammer title at this year’s NCAA meet, throwing a meet-record 206-5. Godsey also finished second in the shot put.

Javelin
Christina Scherwin, Moravian. Scherwin won a pair of NCAA titles in 2002-3. She reached a meet-record 181-7 in 2003, more than 10 feet farther than anyone else has thrown at the Division III championships.

Heptathlon
Kim Oden, Nebraska Wesleyan. The multi-talented Oden won three straight NCAA heptathlon titles starting in 1990. Her 1992 score of 5,320 points is one of just two 5,000-plus scores in meet history. She has the other, scoring 5,136 to win the 1990 title.

Coach
Vince Brown, Christopher Newport. Brown led the Virginia school to six NCAA Division III outdoor track and field championships beginning in 1987. His athletes won 29 individual titles, the most of any school.

Program
Wisconsin Oshkosh. With their win at this year’s NCAA Championships in Lisle, Ill., the Titans have won seven women’s titles, the most of any school. UW Oshkosh has produced 23 individual champions.

More information about the USTFCCCA is available on the Internet at http://ustfccca.cstv.com/.


Release courtesy of USTCCCA