Thursday, January 31, 2008

MORAVIAN’S OZZIE BROWN EARNS ECAC DIVISION III CO-MALE FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK HONORS

CAPE COD, MA --- Senior Ozzie Brown (Plymouth Meeting, PA/Plymouth Whitemarsh HS) of the Moravian College men’s indoor track and field team has been named the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III Co-Male Field Athlete of the Week for his performance last week.

Brown, who was the ECAC Division III Male Track Athlete of the Week on December 12th, won a trio of events, set two school records and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships in a pair of events while leading the Greyhounds to a fourth place finish at the 16th Annual John Covert Classic hosted by Lehigh University.  Moravian was the top NCAA Division III team in the event and defeated four NCAA Division I programs.

Brown captured the long jump with a leap of 7.01 meters (23 feet) to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championships.  Brown was also first in the 60-meter hurdles in a school record and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 8.13 seconds, and he also set the school record in the 60-meter dash in a time of 6.99 seconds. Brown also scored two more points for Moravian with a fifth place finish in the 200-meter dash in 23.32 seconds, and he was 14th in the shot put with a toss of 11.79 meters (38 feet, 8 1/4

Moravian is scheduled to return to action on Saturday, February 2nd at the Thomson Invitational being hosted by the University of Delaware.