Covenant News

North Park Fares Well in Track and Field

WHITEWATER, WI (April 15, 2003) - Lacretia Carroll finished first in one event and placed second in two others to lead the North Park University (NPU) track and field team in the Rex Foster Open Invitational at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater last Saturday.

Carroll, a senior from Peoria, Illinois, won the women's 200-meter dash (26.09 seconds) and was second in the triple jump (38 feet, 7 inches) and 400 meters (59.02 seconds). Teammate Lucia Abel won the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 9 inches, placed third in the triple jump (36 feet, 10 and one-quarter inches) and javelin throw (96 feet, 2 inches) and was sixth in the 200 (26.95 seconds).

Other top women performers for the Vikings included Grace Conrad (fifth in the 5,000-meter race), Allison Weller (eighth in the 1,500) and Sarah Baker (eighth in the discus throw). NPU also finished third in the 400-meter relay and fifth in the 1,600 relay.

For NPU's men, Will Mejia had the top individual performance, placing second with a toss of 45 feet, 5 inches in the shot put and sixth (133-11) in the hammer throw. Chris Gruenewald was fifth in the 1,500, Jerry Kosiba was fifth in the javelin and Dante Britten was fifth in the 100, seventh in the long jump and eighth in the 200. The NPU 400 relay team was also fifth in a meet in which no team scores were totaled.

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