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May 7, 2004
Women's Track & Field: Penguins Capture Horizon League Outdoor
Championship
Indianapolis --
Danielle Bolt won the 100-meter
dash, Aaliyah Gillespie won the
100-meter hurdles and the Youngstown
State Penguins got a lift from two
winning relay teams en route to
capturing the 2004 Horizon League
Outdoor Championship Friday
afternoon at Michael A. Carroll
Track and Field Stadium.
Head Coach Brian Gorby won Women's Coach of the Year
accolades as the Penguins won their
first outdoor title since 1997.
YSU also won the 2004 Horizon League
Indoor Championship in February.
"This is the most gratifying one we've won," Gorby said.
"We fought through so many things
that went wrong all year and we
pulled it out."
Bolt set the conference record in the preliminary round of
the 100 with a time of 12.04 seconds
and posted a time of 12.39 in the
finals for the win. Gillespie
also set a Horizon League record in
the prelims with a time of 14.36 and
turned in a time of 14.71 in the
finals to win the 100 hurdles.
The 4x400-meter relay group of
Jeanna Cunningham, Leslie Johnson,
Gillespie and Bolt also broke a
Horizon League record with a
first-place time of 3:48.17 while
they set YSU's all-time record in
the 4x100-meter but were just .01
seconds shy of the conference
record.
Bolt added a third-place finish in the 200-meters with a time
of 24.82.
Cunningham also stepped up in the sprints as she posted
second-place finishes in the 100
(12.55) and the 200 (24.69).
Johnson added a third-place finish
in the 400-meter dash with a time of
57.20.
Emily Schnitkey paced the Penguins in the distance events as
she placed second in the 3,000-meter
steeplechase with a time of 11:04.38
while adding a third-place finish in
the 1,500-meters with a
school-record time of 4:37.81.
She added a fifth-place spot in the
5,000-meters (17:50.51).
Lindsay Wojciak placed fifth in the
steeplechase with a time of 11:29.78
and ninth in the 5,000 while Andrea
Bardy finished seventh in the
steeplechase (11:56.41). Lisa
Davies recorded an eighth-place
finish in the 10,000-meters in
39:46.13.
Cassandra Smith had a strong showing in the hurdles with a
sixth-place finish in the 100
hurdles in 15.76 and a seventh-place
spot in the 400 hurdles (1:08.50).
Alex Casi added a sixth-place finish
in the 400 hurdles in 1:06.74.
Laura Schatz led the way in the field events as she tied her
own school record in the high jump
with a mark of 5 feet, 5 3/4 inches,
and added a third-place finish in
the javelin with a throw of 104-5.
Casi placed second in the long jump
with a leap of 17-6 1/4 while Nikki
Hooper placed eighth in the triple
jump (32-5 1/2). Larissa Papch
added a fifth-place finish in the
high jump with a mark of 4-11 3/4.
Katy Williams headed the throwers with a second-place finish
in the discus with a throw of 139-3
and a fifth-place throw of 141-6 in
the hammer. Amy Hill placed
third in the discus with a mark of
137-6, seventh in the hammer (136-3)
and tied for seventh-place with
sister Lindsey Hill in the shot put
(38-10 1/2). Kim Lammers
finished fifth in the shot put with
a heave of 40-2 3/4 and 10th in the
hammer while Lauren Girdler placed
sixth in the hammer (136-8).
The Penguins finished with 131 points to edge out
UW-Milwaukee's 113 points.
Detroit came in third with 112
points while Butler, Loyola,
Illinois-Chicago and Wright State
rounded out the remaining four.
YSU was fourth-place entering the
day, trailing Butler by 11 points,
Detroit by 10 and Loyola by five.
UWM was fifth with 22 points after
the opening session.
Cunningham, Bolt, Gillespie and Johnson
received automatic bids to compete in the NCAA
Mideast Regionals held May 28-29 in
Baton Rouge, La. for their wins in
the relays.
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