For the second time in three weeks Roanoke College senior Ophelia Ladner has been selected as the ODAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week.
Ladner staked a spot on the NCAA leaderboard in three different events after wrapping up competition at the VertKlasse Meeting in High Point, NC last week. Her time of 1:02.00 in the top flight of the 400m hurdles landed her in third place at the meet where she was the only non-Division I competitor. That time currently leads the ODAC and NCAA South Region while ranking sixth in the country.
Ladner’s time in the 400m hurdles was just shy of the ODAC record of 1:01.87. Her PR time of 14.87 seconds in the 100m hurdles put her in 15th place in the event, and she’s now slotted second in the ODAC and 36th in the NCAA. Additionally, Ladner was a part of the 4x100m relay team that ran a time of 47.24 seconds, which was good for eighth in the event and currently ranks 11th in Division III.
For the men DeShawn Austin finished fourth in the top flight of the 400m hurdles, clocking in at 54.37 seconds. Salem’s Mitchell Taylor landed in fourth place in the other branch of the 400m hurdles. His personal-record time of 55.53 seconds ranks fifth in the ODAC and eighth in the NCAA South Region.
Some Maroons also competed in the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, VA last weekend. For the men, Elias Ammon logged a time of 1:53.01 to place seventh in the invitational flight of the 800m.
In the top flight of the 10,000m, Parker Blosser placed 10th overall in 32:23.89, while Sam Brasler landed in the 14th spot at 32:43.35. They now rank fourth and sixth, respectively, in the program record book, and they moved into the third and fourth spots in this season’s ODAC standings.
For the women Allie Gallaher led a trio of Maroons in the 1,500m, finishing 20th overall in 5:05.40.
The Maroons will compete at the University of Lynchburg’s Dennis Craddock Coaches Classic this weekend.
