SATURDAY
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater finished twenty-first in the NCAA Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship hosted by North Central College in Naperville, Illinois Friday and Saturday. 

complete results

Lauren Strohmaier (Genoa, IL/Kingston) represented UW-W in the high jump competition Saturday, placing tenth with a height of 5-3.  Jenna Breaker of Ripon College won the event at 5-7.75.

Whitewater's Lexie Sondgeroth (Rochelle, IL/Township) and Melanie Pilon (Waukesha/South) earned All-America honors Friday.  Sondgeroth finished second in long jump and Pilon eighth in the pole vault.

UW-Oshkosh won the NCAA III indoor championship with 56 points, with runnerup Illinois College totaling 32 and third place UW-La Crosse 27.  Whitewater earned nine points in the meet.

UW-W placed twenty-eighth in the 2012 NCAA III indoor championship.

FRIDAY
Lexie Sondgeroth (Rochelle, IL/Township) and Melanie Pilon (Waukesha/South) earned All-America honors to lead the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's track and field team at the NCAA III indoor championship hosted by North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. 

Sondgeroth placed second in the long jump with a best of 19-0.75.  Melissa Norville of Illinois College won the event with a mark of 19-8.75.  Sondgeroth repeats the All-America recognition she earned with an eighth place finish in last year's national indoor meet.  She is the second UW-W woman to earn the distinction in the long jump, with Becky Karls winning the event in 1993.

Melanie Pilon (Waukesha/South) placed eighth in the pole vault, going 12-3.5.  Michelle Favre of Ramapo College took first place with a height of 13-3.5.  Pilon is the first Warhawk woman to earn All-America honors in the pole vault.

Also in Friday's action, Amanda Brom (Jefferson/Jefferson) competed in the 800 meters, running a 2:15.95 in the 800 meters.  She did not qualify for Saturday's final.  Tara Clemens of Illinois Wesleyan had the best time in the preliminaries, 2:10.11.  Sondgeroth also ran in the 60 meters, and she broke her school record by one one hundredth of a second, lowering it to 7.74, but did not qualify for the finals. 

UW-W is in ninth place after the first day of competition with nine points.  UW-Oshkosh leads with 26.  The meet will conclude Saturday. 


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PREVIEW
Amanda Brom (Jefferson/Jefferson), Lauren Strohmaier (Genoa, IL/Kingston), Melanie Pilon (Waukesha/South) and Lexie Sondgeroth (Rochelle, IL/Township) will represent the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championship Friday-Saturday at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Live results

Animoto Video

2013 NCAA Championship Digital Program

Sondgeroth has the top seed among the UW-W participants.  She is listed second in the long jump field with her best of 19-6.25, the UW-W record.  Melissa Norville of Illinois College has the top mark coming into the meet, at 21-0.5.  Sondgeroth earned All-America honors by finishing eighth in the long jump in the 2012 NCAA III indoor meet, joining Becky Karls, the 1993 champion, as the only UW-W athletes to earn All-America honors in the long jump. The NCAA III record in the long jump is held by Skye Morrison of Wartburg College, set in last year's meet.

Sondgeroth, with a school record time of 7.75, also earned a spot in the 60 meter race at the NCAA III indoor meet.  Sasha Henry of Buffalo State is the top qualifier with a best of 7.63.

Brom has the seventh fastest qualifying time in the 800 meters, at 2:13.33.  Tara Clemens of Illinois Wesleyan has the top time in the field, 2:10.48.  The UW-Whitewater 800 record, 2:12.60, was set by Megan Kielar in 2006.  UW-W's Kara Krumenauer placed sixth in the 2000 NCAA indoor meet, and Kielar placed seventh in 2005 and fifth in 2006 as UW-W's second All-American in the 800.  The NCAA III record is 2:06.89, set by Genesia Eddins, of Massachusetts-Boston in 1987.

Strohmaier's qualifying height in the high jump is 5-6.5, ninth in the field.  Elizabeth Evans of Rose Hulman Institute has a 5-10 mark to lead the entrants.  The NCAA III record, 5-10.5, was set by Evans last year.  Whitewater's indoor record of 5-10.75 is held by Shelby Demos (Janesville/Parker), set last spring.  Demos placed sixth in the NCAA III meet in 2010, then moved up to second place in both 2011 and 2012.

Melanie Pilon (Waukesha/South), the UW-W recordholder in the pole vault at 12-5.5, is ninth in the list of competitors.  Michelle Favre of Ramapo College heads the field at 13-9.75.  Abigail Schaffer of Moravian College set the D3 record at 13-8.25 in 2011.  Whitewater has never had an All-American in the pole vault.

The top eight finishers in each event, and top teams in each relay, earn All-America honors. 

UW-W is ranked ninth in this week's USTFCCCAA Division III poll. 

UW-Whitewater tied for twenty-eighth place in last year's NCAA III indoor meet.  That followed a tie for nineteenth in 2011 and tie for sixteenth in 2010.  The Warhawks' best finish ever, fourth, came in 2000.

competitor	event	scheduled for ...	finals (if separate)
Lexie Sondgeroth (Rochelle, IL/Township)	long jump	11:00 Friday
Lexie Sondgeroth (Rochelle, IL/Township)	60 meters	5:20 Friday	2:50 Saturday
Amanda Brom (Jefferson/Jefferson)	800	5:40 Friday prelims	3:10 Saturday final
Lauren Strohmaier (Genoa, IL/Kingston)	high jump	11:00 Saturday
Melanie Pilon (Waukesha/South)	pole vault	11:00 Friday

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