The Basics
Event: 2020 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships.
Location: Kerr-Cregger Fieldhouse, Salem Va.

The Lead: Roanoke College played host to the 2020 ODAC Indoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday and Sunday. The RC women finished 3^rd while the men earned a 6^th place finish in the final standings.

Women's Highlights:

• The first event of the meet, the Distance Medley would see the quartet of Lauren Brown, Lauren Henson, Hailey Draper, and Emma Maras picked up 4^th place points with a final time of 13:41.50, less than 45 seconds off the winning time.
• Jayna Jean-Jules put a cap on a strong season in the Weight Throw with a winning distance of 15.51 meters, 1.5 meters further than any other competitor in the field.
• The 60 Meter Hurdles would see Hannah Snodgrass earn 8^th place points with a time of 10.19.
• A trio of Maroons picked up points in the 60 Meters. Senior Claire Aurand just missed her personal best when she blazed a time of 7.93 for a runner-up finish. Alison Moreau also cracked the eight second mark with a 3^rd place finish in 7.97 while Spencer Mann crossed the line 6^th (8.15).
• RC repeated the feat of three in the top 10 in the 400 Meters with Lily Lippert securing 3^rd in 1:01.21, ahead of teammates Emily Ball (6^th) and Eliza Ryan (9^th).
• Hannah Koepfinger earned 3^rd place points in the 800 Meters, posting a time of 2:39.70.
• The 200 Meters would be a huge point event for RC. Aurand once again finished 2^nd with a time of 26.42, just .34 behind the winner. Moreau was 3^rd in 26.45, Lippert earned 5^th in 27.20, just .10 ahead of Mann while Lindsey Baxter scored 8^th place points (27.38).
• The final track event, the 4x400 Relay, would see Ball, Lippert, Ryan, and Koepfinger finish 3^rd crossing in 4:11.96, just 1.43 seconds behind the team from Washington and Lee.
• In the Long Jump, Koepfinger was 3^rd at 5.01 meters, .08 meters short of the winning jump. Brooke Ryman (10^th) added top 10 points for the Maroons, 4.79 meters.
• Baxter clears 3.21 meters in the Pole Vault, good for a 3^rd place finish, one spot ahead of teammate Louise Tester at 2.96 meters.
• Moreau added another set of 3^rd place points with 1.58 meters in the High Jump.
• RC finished in 3^rd place with 102 points. University of Lynchburg (158.5) finished first just ahead of Washington and Lee (153).

Men's Highlights:

• Saturday night would see the Maroons get a 6^th place effort in the Distance Medley (11:01.44) by the team of Ryan Hamacher, Sam Crawford, Cooper Neeble, and Nathaniel Willis.
• Chamberlain Zulauf crossed the line 7^th in the 5000 Meters with a final time of 16:00.23.
• In the Shot Put, Kaleb Bland earned 8^th place points with a throw of 12.59 meters.
• Neeble returned in the Mile and earned more points of the Maroons (7^th) with a final mark of 4:32.43.
• Crawford claimed 9^th place in the 200 Meters with a 23.10 effort. Blake Morin just missed a top 10 by .01 with a time of 23.13.
• In the 3000 Meters, Peter Smith gave RC points with an 8^th place finish in 9:08.46.
• The 4x400 Relay would see the RC men cross the tape first with a final time of 3:25.93, winning the event by .18 of a second. The foursome of Xavier O'Brien, Cameron Harris, Micah Ray, and Crawford just out-finished the team from Bridgewater and in doing so, set the school record.
• The Pole Vault would see the most top 10 finishes in a single event for the men. Jackson Smith earned 4^th place points with 3.95 meters, finishing one spot clear of Corbin Turner (3.80 meters). Miles Enstrom cleared 3.65 meters for 7^th and Dillon Kopec was 8^th with a final vault of 3.35 meters.
• Hunter Bohon just missed a top 10 with an 11^th place effort (1.77 meters) in the High Jump and returned in the Long Jump for 13^th place points.
• The Bland brothers each earned a top five in the Weight Throw. Kaleb was 4^th with a final distance of 15.03 meters, one spot clear of Kyle Bland in 5^th (14.87 meters).
• Roanoke men would finish 6^th with 42 points. Washington and Lee would take the top spot (153) followed by University of Lynchburg (141) and Bridgewater (123).