This Indoor season was a season of firsts for the Hannibal-LaGrange University Track and Field Program.
1. Qualified our first ever Relay for Indoor Nationals - the Women's Distance Medley Relay, Made up of Breanna Newton, Holland McCoy, Mandi Riddle, and Kristen Garwood ran a qualifying time at the Indiana Relays.
2. We had our first National Champion - Nickola Shingles became the first national champion in Hannibal-LaGrange University history by winning the 60 meter hurdle race in a new meet record time of 7.86. This is a great feat for our program that has only been around for five years.
3. We collected 3 - All American honors - The most we have had at any single meet since 2011 when we collected 2 All American honors in the NAIA Outdoor Nationals.
4. Talented Bunch - At the conference Indoor meet we finished second on the men's and women's side in the team standings. But we took 3 of the 4 individual awards that you could possibly earn. Chris Smith was named AMC Male Field Athelte
Nickola Shingles was named AMC Male Newcomer of the year for track.
Holland McCoy was named AMC Female Athelte of the year
Kristen Garwood was named AMC Female Track Athelte of the year and Newcomer of the year, this is the second time she has won these awards. She was named newcomer and runner of the year for the AMC conference in cross country.
At the beginning of the Indoor Season we set some very ambitious goals for our program. We met or exceeded those goals.
Goal #1 - Qualify 10 people for Indoor Nationals -
Actual - We qualified 8 people for Indoor Nationals
Goal #2 - Have 12 AMC Conference Athletes of the Week
Actual - We got 11
Goal #3 - Break 15 school records on the men's and women's indoor records
Actual - We broke 20 school records on the men's and women's indoor records
Goal #4 - 15 AMC Confernce Champions
Actual - 11 AMC Confernce champions -
All together we had 28 All - Conference performances (top 3) in each event,
It was a great Indoor Season.We know turn our attention to outdoor.
