Carthage College Athletics

2011: Earned NCAA All-America honors in the hammer throw with a seventh-place finish (173-0) at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship…finished 13th in the NCAA discus (134-3)…qualified for the NCAA outdoor shot put but was disqualified with four fouls…set a Carthage record in the hammer throw (178-1) on May 12 at the North Central (Ill.) “Dr. Keeler Invitational”…set a Carthage record in the outdoor shot put (48-5) on May 19 at the Wisconsin-La Crosse National Qualifier…took first place in the hammer throw (172-7), the shot put (46-2 ¾) and the discus (153-6) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship and named the meet’s “most outstanding field athlete”…named CCIW “outdoor field athlete of the week” on April 19 after winning three events at the April 13 Wheaton (Ill.) “Twilight Invitational”…finished second in the weight throw (59-6 ¼) and fourth in the shot put (47-1 ¾) at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championship and earned NCAA All-America honors…named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches of America Midwest Region “Field Athlete of the Year”…named the “co-field athlete of the meet” at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship for winning both the shot put (46-2) and the weight throw (56-3 ¾)…named CCIW “field athlete of the week” on Jan. 18…earned “athlete of the week” honors again on Jan. 25 after setting a Carthage record in the shot put (NCAA-automatic 48-3 ¾) at the Jan. 21 North Central “Cardinal Opener”…earned “athlete of the week” honors for a third time on Feb. 8 after setting an NCAA-automatic and Carthage-record mark in the weight throw (60-1) at the Illinois Wesleyan “Bob Keck Invitational”…broke her own school record in the shot put with a 51-11 ¼ toss at the March 4 “Gill Last Chance Invitational.”