{"id":23393,"date":"2015-02-23T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=23393"},"modified":"2015-03-02T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:53:09","slug":"royals-distance-runners-set-odac-indoor-track-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2015\/royals-distance-runners-set-odac-indoor-track-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals distance runners set ODAC indoor track records"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are certainly times when getting caught up in the wrong crowd is a bad thing.\u00a0 But for two EMU track and field women, getting caught up in a crowd of D-I runners produced amazing results, as both junior\u00a0Hannah Chappell-Dick<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Bluffton, Ohio\/Bluffton) and freshman\u00a0Kat Lehman<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Dover, Ohio\/Dover) rode the pace of top-flight women at Saturday’s UCS Invitational and broke ODAC records.<\/p>\n

In the mile, Chappell-Dick broke the five-minute barrier for the first time and did so quite handily.\u00a0 She charted a time of 4:56.37, shattering her own school record of 5:05.65, and breaking the ODAC record of 4:58.17 set by Roanoke All-American Carmen Graves in 2013.\u00a0 The junior also sits at No. 4 in the nation this year with the time.\u00a0 She placed sixth at the meet, behind runners from Virginia Tech and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Classmate\u00a0Jolee Paden<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(St. Joseph, Ill.\/St. Joseph-Ogden) ran the mile for the first time this year and jumped to No. 7 in the ODAC this season at 5:27.27.<\/p>\n

Lehman’s mark also came in her only event of the day, the 3000m, where she crossed in 9:55.49, whacking more than 27 seconds of her PR and school record of 10:22.72.\u00a0 She shattered the Old Dominion Athletic Conference record with the time, as the old mark was 10:10.61, set by Roanoke’s Casey Smith in 2001.\u00a0 Nationally, Lehman leaps to No. 9 as she looks to join Chappell-Dick with a trip to the NCAA National Championships.\u00a0 She took fourth in the race, coming in behind two women from Wake Forest and one from Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

Eastern Mennonite sent only a handful of athletes to the meet in Winston-Salem, N.C.\u00a0 Elsewhere,\u00a0Brittany Williams<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(King George, Va.\/King George) earned the No. 5 time in EMU history with a time of 1:02.52.<\/p>\n

In the long jump,\u00a0Oksana Kittrell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Bedford, Va.\/Liberty) came close to her PR with a best leap of 4.96m (16-3.25ft).\u00a0 The freshman’s best effort this year is 5.05m.<\/p>\n

The duo of\u00a0Alec Thibodeaux<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Staunton, Va.\/Fort Defiance) and\u00a0Tyler Denlinger<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Perkasie, Pa.\/Christopher Dock) continued to shine in the men’s 800m.\u00a0 Thibodeaux just beat his teammate, taking eighth overall with a time of 1:57.18.\u00a0 It was his PR, which is No. 4 in the ODAC and improves him to No. 4 in EMU history.\u00a0 Although Thibodeaux sits one spot behind Denlinger in program history, Denlinger came in just behind him in Saturday’s race, crossing in 1:57.22.<\/p>\n

Connor Faint<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Winchester, Va.\/Millbrook) set a new PR in the triple jump, charting the No. 9 distance in the EMU books at 12.47m (40-11.00ft).<\/p>\n

EMU had four men running in the 200m.\u00a0\u00a0Devantae Dews<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Lynchburg, Va.\/E.C. Glass) led the way with a time of 23.77, just missing his PR by .01.\u00a0\u00a0Justin Bradley<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Ashburn, Va.\/Briarwood) tied his PR by finishing in 23.86.\u00a0\u00a0Londen Wheeler<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Nelson, Va.\/Nelson County) crossed in 24.38 while\u00a0Terry Dotson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Appomattox, Va.\/Appomattox) timed at 25.12.<\/p>\n

Wheeler also clocked at 54.09 in the 400m.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Mennonite track teams wrap up the indoor season next week at the ODAC Indoor Championships in Landover, Md.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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