Reflections Magazine Issue #76 - Spring 2012 | Page 11

Athletics News
Volleyball

Men: Doug Dawson broke his own school record
in earning yet another All-American accolade
Women: The Saints (15-16) won their first
at the NAIA nationals. Dawson ran a time of
two matches in the conference tournament,
47.33 seconds in the 400 finals to place third.
including an upset of second seeded CornerLogan Moore didn’t make the finals in the 60
stone, to advance to the semifinals for the first
meter hurdles but shattered the school record
time in many years. The Saints’ tournament run
time with a clocking of 8.19. The final school
came to an end as Northwestern Ohio ousted
record was set by the distance medley foursome
SHU. Freshmen Halie Baker and Lindsey Adams
of Zach Widner, Jesiah Rodriguez, Calvin Sullins
were honored by the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic
and Ryan McElyea. They combined to break
Conference. Baker, a setter, was named second
a 28-year-old record with a time of 10:01.1.
team All-WHAC, while Adams, an outside hitter,
SHU finished 21st as a team. Behind Most
was chosen the conference’s Co-Freshman of
Valuable Performer Calvin Sullins and Coach of
the Year. Senior Nikki Hughes earned academic
the Year Tim Bauer, the Saints continued their
all-conference honors while Bailey Mutter was
conference dominance by winning their fifth
the team’s Champions of Character recipient.
straight Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
indoor title. Sullins was second in the long
Indoor Track & Field
jump, third in the triple jump and 60 hurdles
Women: Freshman Phoenix Duncan missed
and fourth in the high jump to earn MVP
a national title by a championship jump-off,
honors. Claiming individual championships
finishing second in the high jump at the NAIA
were Dawson in the 400, Justin Bateson in the
national indoor track and field championships.
3,000 and Logan Moore in the 60 hurdles. The
Duncan (below) jumped 5 feet, 7 ¾ inches to
4x800 team also took first place. Bauer was
earn All-American honors for the Saints. Lenzey
also the Champion of Character coach, Sabin
Stidham also earned All-American honors after
Enerson received the Champion of Character
placing fourth in the pole vault (11-9 3/4).
award while Kyle Armstrong, Doug Dawson,
SHU finished 19th as a team. Duncan was also
David Weeks and Josh Madden earned academic
named the Most Valuable Performer of the
all-conference.
Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference indoor
Cross Country
championships. The Saints finished third as a
team. Duncan set a school record in the event
Women: Senior Lyndsay Payne (left) was
with a jump of 5 feet, 8 inches. Other conference
68th (19:09) and Beth Heldmeyer 176th (19:53)
winners for SHU were Stidham in the pole vault
for SHU at the NAIA national meet. Payne and
and the 4x400 relay. Morgan Choszczyk earned
fellow senior Kelly Ferguson were each named
the Champion of Character award while Lyndsay
Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. The women
Payne, Choszczyk, Carrie Zubke and Kelly
placed fourth at the conference championships,
Ferguson were academic all-conference.
with Payne (third) and Heldmeyer (fifth)
earning all-conference honors.

Inaugural Track Meet Honors
Coach Don Kleinow
Siena Heights University honored its former
longtime coach at the inaugural Don Kleinow
Memorial Invitational April 14 at O’Laughlin
Stadium. There was a special ceremony in
which the track was dedicated and blessed,
and members of the Kleinow family and
current and former track and field athletes
ran a lap in memory of Kleinow, who passed away in 2011.
The Saints also debuted a new raised runway pole vault pit,
one of only a few in the Midwest. SHU’s Lenzey Stidham and
Ricky DePalma took full advantage, winning the collegiate
portion of the vault. Freshman high jumper Phoenix Duncan
also set a new school women’s outdoor record at the meet
by jumping 5 feet, 10 inches.

Men: The Saints were led by All-American
Jesiah Rodriguez, who finished 29th at the
NAIA cross country national championships
at Fort Vancouver, Wash. Rodriguez finished in
24 minutes, 50 seconds, placing within the top
30 requirement to earn All-American honors.
David Weeks was 55th (25:18) and Justin
Bateson 122nd (25:55) as the Saints placed
15th. SHU was se