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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host MAC Championships, Starting Thursday
May 12, 2008 | Women's Track and Field
May 12, 2008
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's track and field team will be hosting the 2008 Mid-American Conference Championships this week, starting on Thursday, May 15, and running through Saturday, May 17. The event will take place on the newly constructed Whittaker Track, located on the east side of Doyt Perry Stadium.
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BGSU Sprints
The Falcons will be led by a handful of women in the sprint events. In the 100 meter race the Orange and Brown will follow the lead of Shantell Lewis and Sarah Hooten. Lewis is coming off her best performance of the season, finishing second at the Len Paddock Invitational with a time of 12.21 seconds in the 100 meters. She also owns the Falcons' top time in the 200 meters (25.08) Hooten's top time came just a few weeks ago at the Toledo Invitational with a time of 12.52.
Hillary Hewit and Heather Conger are the top BGSU competitors in the 400-meter sprints. Hewit owns the Falcons' top time of the season (1:00.16), set at the Oliver Nikoloff, while Conger captured the Beaver Invitational with a time of 1:00.51.
In the hurdles Rachel Doughty and Kristen Carver will be the top Falcon competitors. Doughty owns the Falcons' top-five performances in the 100-meter hurdles, with her top finishing coming at the Miami Team Challenge (8th, 15.15). Carver is coming of her best performance of the season, finishing the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:07.00 at the Len Paddock Invitational.
BGSU Distance
Carly Bates, Lyndi Springer, Kara Butler and Kylie Korsnack will lead a young group in the distance events this week at the MAC Championships.
Bates owns the Falcons' top time in the 800 meters with a time of 2:16.67 and 1500 meters with a time of 4:41.74.
Springer, who also runs in the 800 and 1500 meters, top event may be the 3,000 meter steeplechase, where she captured the individual crown at the Toledo Invitational with a time of 11:28.96.
Butler is a long distance runner, specializing in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters, owns the Falcons second fastest performance of the season in the 5,000 event with a time of 18:00.02 at the Miami Team Challenge.
Kylie Korsnack's top events come in both the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 5,000 meter run. In the steeplechase she finished third just two weeks ago at the Toledo Invitational with a time of 11:36.17, while her best run in the 5,000 meters came at the Miami Team Challenge (18:43.42).
BGSU Jumps
Senior Amanda Sefcik finished first two weeks ago at the Toledo Invitational with a mark of 18-07.75 in the long jump, her best performance of the season. Sabrina Forstein's mark of 11-11.75 in the pole vault at the Toledo Invitational not only planted her atop the meet, it was also the second-best jump in BGSU history.
BGSU Throws
The Falcons will roll four-deep in the throws, having TaKarra Dunning, Whitney Hartman, Lauren Bryant and Kylie Korsnack all capable of big things this week.
Dunning has three first place finishes in the shot put this season, including a first at the Toledo Invitational (48-07.25) and Len Paddock Invitational (47-10.50). She has three regional qualifying marks on the season.
Hartman, who has been named MAC Thrower of the Week once this season, has four regional qualifying marks this season in the hammer throw, and three first place finishes. In her last two meets she has two regional marks and has finished first at both the Toledo Invitational (182-07) and Len Paddock Invitational (182-06). Her best mark of the season came at the All-Ohio Championships (183-02), the fourth-best mark in school history.
Bryant, who earned second-team All-MAC honors during the indoor campaign in the hammer throw is coming off a second place finish at the Len Paddock Invitational in the discus (147-04), her top mark of the season.
Korsnack, much like many of her teammates, is coming off one of her strongest showing of the season after registering a mark of 111-03 at the Len Paddock Invitational in the javelin.
