Women’s Indoor Track and Field: Ohio Northern (0-0) hosts Larry Cole Invitational
Friday, January 20, 2023, 5 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
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Friday's Meet: The Ohio Northern women's indoor track and field team opens its 2023 season on Friday hosting the fourth annual Larry Cole Invitational … Field events are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m., and the track events are set to start at 6 p.m. … Joining ONU in the meet are teams from Adrian (Mich.), Bluffton, Cedarville, Earlham (Ind.) and Manchester (Ind.) … Northern is coming off its 11th consecutive winning season indoors and ninth straight winning season outdoors in 2022 with respective records of 26-7 and 16-4 … The Polar Bears return 24 letter winners from their 2022 team that posted a third-place finish at both the indoor and outdoor Ohio Athletic Conference Championships … This season's roster is headlined by seniors Anna Schatzle and Tessa Pitcovich, who both qualified for NCAA Championships meets and earned All-Great Lakes Region honors in 2022 … Schatzle qualified for both the indoor and outdoor national meets in the pole vault and is the reigning OAC champion in the outdoor pole vault … Schatzle ranks fifth all-time at ONU in the indoor pole vault with a mark of 3.72 meters and fourth all-time in the outdoor pole vault with a mark of 3.75 meters … Pitcovich qualified for the outdoor nationals in the 10,000 meters … Pitcovich ranks second all-time at ONU in the outdoor 10,000 meters with a time of 36:08.18 and was an All-OAC performer in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000 meters and outdoor 5,000 and 10,000 meters last season, finishing as the team's top point-scorer at both the indoor and outdoor OACs … Pitcovich was named a College Sports Communicators Academic All-American last season … Other top returnees include senior Kenzie Detmer, junior Olivia Ogg and sophomores Olyvia Ashbrook, Chloe Gibson and Toria Ingalls, all of whom earned All-OAC honors in 2022 … Ogg is the reigning OAC champion in the indoor pole vault and finished second to Schatzle at the outdoor OACs … Detmer was All-OAC with a third-place finish in the outdoor triple jump … Ashbrook was All-OAC with a third-place finish in outdoor 400-meter hurdles … Gibson was All-OAC with a third-place finish in the indoor triple jump … Ingalls was All-OAC with a third-place finish in the indoor high jump.
Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 14th season as the head women's track and field coach at ONU … He owns a 486-166-1 overall record indoors for a .745 winning percentage and a 426-168-3 overall record outdoors for a .716 winning percentage.