Tuesday,
February 27, 2007
MORAVIAN’S JESSICA POSIMO NAMED MIDDLE
ATLANTIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD ROOKIE
OF THE YEAR; DOUG POLLARD EARNS COACH OF THE YEAR HONORS
ANNVILLE,
PA --- Freshman sprinter/jumper Jessica Posimo (Philadelphia,
PA/St. Basil Academy) of the Moravian College women’s
indoor track & field team has been named the 2007 Middle Atlantic
Conference Rookie of the Year for her performance at the 2007 MAC
Indoor Championships hosted by Susquehanna University on February
24th.
Head coach Doug Pollard was named the MAC Women’s
Indoor Coach of the Year after leading the Greyhounds to their 11th
title in the last 12 years. Moravian had a team score of 160 points,
which included sweeping all 31 points in the 200-meter dash, and
finished 71 points ahead of the host Crusaders. There were a total
of ten teams in the meet.
Posimo, pictured at right, captured the award
after winning the long jump with a leap of 5.22 meters (17 feet,
1 1/2 inches) and triple jump with a distance of 10.65 meters (34
feet, 11 1/4 inches), placing second in the 55-meter hurdles in
a time of 8.65 seconds, third in the high jump after clearing 1.52
meters (four feet, 11 3/4 inches) and fifth in the 200-meter dash
in a time of 27.72 seconds.
The Greyhounds had three other individual winners on the women's
side with freshman Anna Heim (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown
HS) winning the pole vault with an MAC meet record and
NCAA Division III automatic qualifying height of 3.81 meters (12
feet, six inches), senior Erin Recker (Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua
HS) taking the 55-meter dash in a time of 7.34 seconds
and freshman Dana Haslett (Sellersville, PA/Pennridge HS)
captured first in the 200-meter dash in an MAC meet record time
of 25.99 seconds. Heim’s height in the pole
vault is the second best height of the year to date in Division
III, moving her up from 22nd on the NCAA Division III performance
list.
Moravian also had two relay teams finish first with the 4x200-meter
relay squad of Recker, Haslett
senior Amy Reehil (Roselle, NJ/Roselle Catholic HS)
and freshman Rachel Beck (Churchville, PA/Council Rock South
HS) taking the top spot in 1:46.43 and the 4x400-meter
relay team of Heim, Haslett, Reehil
and freshman Kaitlyn Boyer (Oley, PA/Oley Valley HS) finishing
first in a time of 4:13.37.
On the men’s side, Moravian finished second of ten teams
with a score of 104 points, just ten points behind champion Elizabethtown
College. Junior Ozzie Brown (Plymouth Meeting, PA/Plymouth
Whitemarsh HS) paced the Greyhounds winning the 55-meter
hurdles in an MAC meet record and an NCAA Division III automatic
qualifying time of 7.53 seconds, the second fastest time in the
nation to date. Brown also captured the 200-meter
dash in 22.37 seconds, and he was the runner-up in the high jump
at 1.97 meters (six feet, five inches), the long jump at 6.78 meters
(22 feet, three inches) and the 55-meter dash in 6.51 seconds.
Moravian's only other first place finish in the championship was
by the 4x200-meter relay team of Brown, senior
Josh Kline (Reading, PA/Exeter HS), junior James
Bell (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin HS) and sophomore Robert
Shaffer (Pottsville, PA/Pottsville HS) in a time of 1:31.55.
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