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Trinity track and field team earns three All-America slots |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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The Trinity University Tigers earned three All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. On May 23, junior Emily Loeffler of San Antonio’s O’Connor High School finished third in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10 minutes, 28 seconds. In competition May 24, junior Chris Baer, also a standout on the Tigers’ football team, registered a throw of 205 feet, 2 inches in the men’s javelin for a fifth-place finish. First-year student-athlete Zach Brush came in sixth in the men’s 800 meters, clocking in at 1:52.59. He was the only first-year student, from any school in the competition. Baer and Brush became Trinity’s first Division III men’s All-Americans. Junior Todd Wildman placed No. 13 in the men’s high jump at 6 feet, 4 inches. Wildman had a time of 14.82 seconds in the prelims of the 110-meter hurdles. |