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Pleger To Compete For National Championship Wednesday
June 03, 2013 | Women's Track and Field
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Eugene, Ore. – Bowling Green State University redshirt sophomore Brooke Pleger will compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field National Championship June 5-8. Pleger, who won the East Regional Preliminary, is ranked fifth in the country in the event.
The hammer throw will be the first contested event at the championship, taking place at 4:30 pm Wednesday. Based on results from the Regional Championships, Pleger is the No. 7 seed at the national championship. While Pleger's throw of 210-feet-1 meters was the best in the East, six competitors threw further than that distance in the West, including top-seeded Chelsea Cassulo of Arizona State. She threw 229-11 meters to win the West.
Pleger is one of three Mid-American Conference hammer throws in the 24-person field at the NCAA National Championship. Akron's Brittany Funk is seeded eighth and Buffalo's Shant'e White is 19th.
Only five Falcons have ever scored points at an NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field National Championship and none have placed higher than sixth. Listed below are the all-time results for BGSU student-athletes who scored points at the national championship. Interestingly, all of the program's previous scorers did so in field events.
| BGSU National Championship Point Scorers | |||
| Student-Athlete | Year | Event | Place |
| Beth Manson | 1989 | Discus | 6th |
| Huina Han | 1998 | Triple Jump | 6th |
| Emily Cokinos | 1997 | Javelin | 7th |
| Stephanie Heldt | 2001 | High Jump | T7th |
| Beth Manson | 1988 | Discus | 8th |
| * Deb Romsek placed fourth in the 400 hurdles at the 1976 AIAW Collegiate National Championship prior to the NCAA sanctioning women's track and field. | |||
Although Pleger is seeded seventh at the national championship, she is ranked fifth in the country as only four others have thrown further than the 219-9 toss she had at the Northeast Ohio Invitational. Arizona State's Chelsea Cassulo (229-0), Princeton's Julia Ratcliffe (225-9), Kansas' Alena Krechyk (223-7) and UCLA's Ida Storm (223-3) are the only competitors to throw further than 220 feet this year. In fact, Pleger defeated Ratcliffe when the pair went head-to-head at the NCAA East Region Preliminary. Storm is the only competitor in the field to out throw Pleger this year, defeating BGSU's redshirt sophomore at the Mt. SAC Relays.
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