May 4, 2000
GREYHOUND TRACK & FIELD TEAMS TO COMPETE FOR MAC TITLE;
WOMENS LOOKING FOR 8th STRAIGHT OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP
BETHELHEM, PA --- The Moravian College mens and womens outdoor track and field
teams will compete in the 2000 Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at Widener University
in Chester on Friday, May 5th and Saturday, May 6th.
The womens team is looking for its eighth straight MAC Outdoor title after winning
its fifth consecutive championship in the indoor season. The mens squad will be trying
to capture its first MAC Outdoor Championship since 1996. The men placed second at this
years indoor meet.
Leading the womens team will be a host of sophomores led by Heidi Wolfsberger
(Moosic/Riverside HS), Emily Shertzer (Hummelstown/Lower Dauphin HS), Erin
Boyle (Philadelphia/Nazareth Academy), Kim Jaick (Coopersburg/Southern Lehigh
HS) and Steph Horne (Sinking Spring/Wilson West Lawn HS) on the track and Sarah
Shaneberger (Bethlehem/Southern Lehigh HS), Carrie McCaffery (Lebanon/Annville-Cleona
HS) and Jennifer Lohn (Media/Penncrest HS).
Wolfsberger, who placed second in the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in the 1,500
meters to earn All-American accolades, has already automatically qualified for the NCAA
Division III Outdoor Championships in the 1,500 and 3,000 meters and she has provisionally
qualified in the 5,000 meters. Wolfsberger holds the top time in the MAC this spring in
the 800, 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 meter races. Shertzer is a NCAA Division III provisional
qualifier in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. Shertzer is second to Wolfsberger in the
5,000 meters in the MAC this season and leads the conference in the 10,000 meters.
Boyle ranks second in the MAC in the 800 meters and is third in the 1,500 meters while
Jaick is fourth in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meter races. Horne is ranked second in the
MAC in the 110-meter high hurdles and fifth in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Freshman Jen
Ketz (Canadensis/Pocono Mountain HS) is first in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles
and joins Horne on the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams for the Greyhounds that
are both ranked fifth in the MAC.
Shaneberger leads Moravian in the field by being ranked second in the MAC in three events,
the shot put, the discus and the hammer throw. McCaffery is second in the javelin and fourth
in the shot put. Lohn, who competed in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in the
javelin in 1999, is third in the MAC in the javelin this season after returning from an
injury that kept her out the first half of the season.
On the mens side, senior Tim Pfluger (Slatington/Northern Lehigh HS) is looking
to become the first male in the history of the MAC to win the 1,500 meters four years in
a row. In fact, Pfluger, who is ranked first in the event this spring, is looking for his
seventh gold medal in the event with three titles indoors and three more outdoors. Pfluger
is also ranked second in the 5,000 meters.
Sophomore Josh Heebner (Lansdale/North Penn HS) heads into this weekends
championships ranked third in the 800 meters while freshman Wes Zimmerman (Boyertown/
Boyertown HS) is third in the 10,000 meters. Senior Dan Oliynik (Dover, NJ/Morris
Knolls HS) looks to defend his two-time championship in the 110-meter high hurdles
and he is ranked third this spring. Junior Damon Rutherford (Reading/Exeter HS) is
fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase this spring.
Junior Anthony Rediger (Sellersville/Pennridge HS) will lead the Greyhounds in
the field events. Rediger is ranked third this season in the high jump and fifth in the
triple jump. Rediger nearly provisionally qualified in the triple jump earlier this spring
with a leap of 13.95 meters. Junior Bill Schmidt (Basking Ridge, NJ/Ridge HS) enters
the MAC meet ranked third in the shot put this spring, an event Schmidt won a MAC Indoor
Championship in 1999.
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