For the second time in as many seasons, the ODAC Indoor Track & Field Championship titles went to two separate squads with the University of Lynchburg repeating as the men’s champion and Washington and Lee University securing its second straight women’s trophy. Before last season, it had been since 2020 that two different schools had taken home conference hardware from Roanoke College’s Cregger Center.
Lynchburg is now the owner of five consecutive and 33 overall men’s indoor championships. For Washington and Lee, it had been since 2009 that the Generals had claimed an ODAC women’s indoor title before 2025. Now winner of two straight, WLU has now topped the women’s indoor points table three times. A total of 10 records were set over the two-day affair in Salem, split evenly between the men’s and women’s ranks.
Roanoke College finished fourth in both the women’s and men’s competition. The women scored 88 points, just behind third-place Bridgewater (92 points). Lynchburg came in second with 113 points.
The RC women swept the three All-ODAC honors in the 60m hurdles. Ophelia Ladner won the event with a time of 8.905 seconds, finishing four one-thousandths of a second ahead of Olivia Viers at 8.909 as both athletes are part of a tie for 34th in the country. Rebecca Carr placed third in the event with a mark of 8.99 seconds.
Lindsey Hobin claimed first in the 200m with a school-record time of 25.23 seconds, breaking the mark set by Robin Yerkes back in 2010. She ranks 30th in Division III. Mae Kaufman also scored in the race, coming in eighth at 26.37.
Roanoke won the 4×400 relay, as Ladner, Kaufman, Hobin and Maryrose Molina-Shuman set an ODAC meet record with a time of 3:58.49. Hobin added an all-conference designation in the 400m, finishing as the runner-up at 57.54 seconds.
Nalonda Henderson snagged All-ODAC laurels in the 60m, coming in third with a mark of 7.90 seconds. The Maroons took second place in Saturday’s distance medley relay, providing all-conference recognition for Shuman, Allie Gallaher, Nadira Cantey and Ava Wray.
In the men’s competition Lorenzo Camobreco won the 400m with a time of 49.50 seconds. Max Cardwell joined him on the podium by finishing third in 50.04 seconds. Roanoke also took first in the 4×400 relay, where Camobreco, Cardwell joined Brandon Heffinger and Elias Ammon to set both the ODAC meet record and a new program standard at 3:20.55.
Amari Carter claimed second place and an all-conference honor in the 200m, crossing the line in 22.44 seconds. Ammon was the runner-up in the 800m, logging an All-ODAC time of 1:55.50. Daniel Graham rounded out the all-conference honorees from Sunday’s action with a third-place showing in the 60m hurdles at 8.29 seconds. Salem High grad Mitchell Taylor came in fourth at 8.34.
Dominic McCombs once again broke his own school record in the pole vault, finishing fifth overall at 4.38m. Roanoke’s all-conference honors also included a third-place run for the distance medley relay team of Aaron Massey, Jonah Hamman, Jackson Coombes and Beau Brebner during Saturday’s competition.
The Maroons will send competitors to final qualifiers at both Wartburg and Shenandoah this weekend.
