Bethany Anderson
Track and Field
2006-07
Every time junior thrower Bethany Anderson competes it seems she is breaking a school record. This year, and during the course of the past two years, Anderson has been busy shattering her own records with some impressive marks that rank her at the top of the Horizon League and among the elite in the nation.
With three championship meets left in her career, Anderson is an eight-time Horizon League Champion, a four-event school-record holder, a two-event Horizon League record holder, a two-time HL Field Performer of the Meet and a two-time HL Field Newcomer of the Meet.
So far during the outdoor season, Anderson has a school-record toss of 187-feet, one-inch in the hammer throw which she set at the All-Ohio Championships on April 21. That toss is 16-feet further than anyone in the conference, ranks 10th in the Mideast Region, is an automatic NCAA Regional qualifying mark and ranks 39th in the nation. She is a two-time HL Athlete-of-the-Week and has eclipsed her school mark on three occasions.
The outdoor Horizon League Track and Field Championships are set for May 10-11 in Indianapolis. She will be competing in the hammer and the shot put as the Guins will try to win the outdoor title for the fourth consecutive year.
During the indoor season, Anderson was voted the HL’s Track and Field Athlete of the Year by the league’s coaches. At the league championships, she swept the throwing events winning the shot put and weight throw to be tabbed the Outstanding Field Performer of the meet. She won the shot with a toss of 43’ 2.5” and won the weight throw at 56’ 1”. She won the shot for the third consecutive year becoming just the third three-time event winner in the event in HL history. As a team, YSU placed second at the league meet behind UW-Milwaukee.
She finished the year ranked 26th nationally in the weight throw with a school-record toss of 63’ 7” on Feb. 17. A three-time Horizon League Athlete of the Week, she became the first female thrower in school history to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Championships.
In 2005-06, she earned the Outstanding Field Performer at the outdoor conference championship winning the shot put and hammer. The Penguins won the team title for the third straight campaign. At the NCAA Mideast Regional she placed 23rd in the hammer throw. At the indoor meet, she swept the throwing events.
In 2004-05, she was named the Outstanding Field Newcomer of the Meet at the outdoor championships. She won the shot put with a school and conference record while placing third in the hammer throw. At the indoor meet, she was tabbed the Newcomer of the Year winning the shot and placing second in the weight throw.
A native of Jamestown, N.Y., she is a the daughter of Brenda and Timothy Anderson. A Health/Pre-Med major, she is a 2006-07 recipient of the Lester Donnell Scholarship.
