Photo courtesy Rose-Hulman
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| Jessica Scott competes at NCAA III nationals Photo courtesy Rose-Hulman |
UW-Platteville's Jessica Scott finished second in the 800-meter run and was part of the Pioneers' sixth-place 4x400 relay team at the NCAA Division III national track and field indoor championships Saturday at Rose-Hulman.
Scott finished the 800 meters in 2:10.95 and was edged out by St. Norbert's Ashley Graybill, who ran a 2:09.95. Scott's all-American effort gave the Pioneers a top-3 finish in the 800 for the fifth straight year. The senior from Kiel bettered her time from 2008, when she won the national championship.
The Pioneer team of Liz Baker, Alison Glendenning, Ann Tank and Scott was sixth in the 4x400, earning all-America honors. The Pioneer quartet ran the race in 3:54.66, edging UW-Eau Claire by three-hundredths of a second and topping UW-La Crosse. Wartburg won the race in 3:50.10.
Scott earned her fifth and sixth NCAA III track all-America awards, while Baker, Glendenning, and Tank all earned their first national honors. They became the first Pioneer women ever to earn all-American honors in the 4x400.
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| All-Americans (l-r)Baker, Tank, Scott, Glendenning |
Coach Jim Nickasch's women were 16th in the team standings. Wartburg won the national championship, out-scoring runner-up UW-La Crosse 51-41.5. UW-Oshkosh and UW-La Crosse tied for the men's national title, while Corey Digman's fourth-place finish in the weight throw Friday put the Pioneer men at 40th.
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