Women’s Indoor Track and Field: Ohio Northern (17-0) at Ashland Open
Friday-Saturday, February 3-4, 2023 - Niss Athletic Center, Ashland, Ohio
Meet Preview: The Ohio Northern women's indoor track and field team is competing in the two-day Jud Logan Light Giver Open at Ashland University on Friday and Saturday … The team was originally scheduled to host the Joe Banks Invitational on Saturday, but that meet was canceled … On Friday, field events begin at 2 p.m. with track events starting at 4 p.m. … On Saturday, field events begin at 11 a.m. with track events starting at 11:30 a.m. … Spectator tickets are $11 for adults and $6 for children … ONU is ranked No. 6 in the Great Lakes Region in the Week 2 USTFCCCA poll, which was released on Monday … Northern is coming off a first-place finish in the 13-team Muskingum Invitational last Saturday … The Polar Bears scored 161.5 points with Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) placing second with 155 points and Mount Vernon Nazarene placing third with 63 points … Northern posted first-place finishes in three events … Sophomore Izzy Burman won the weight throw with a mark of 14.73 meters and was fifth in the shot put with a distance of 11.15 meters en route to being named Ohio Athletic Conference Field Athlete of the Week … Senior Tessa Pitcovich won the 5,000 meters in 17:45.84, which is tops in the OAC this season … Sophomore Chloe Gibson won the long jump with a mark of 5.24 meters and was third in the 60 meters with a personal-best time of :08.20 … Burman leads the OAC in the weight throw with a top mark of 15.83 meters this season and is second in the shot put with a season-best mark of 12.16 meters … Those marks rank second and sixth, respectively, all-time at ONU … Northern added five second-place finishes on Saturday, including sophomore Olyvia Ashbrook in the 500 meters, freshman Abby Matthews in the mile, senior Taylor Ellerbrock in the 3,000 meters, junior Rosie Schroeder in the 60 hurdles and the team of freshmen Stacey Legg, Rachel Ruggles and Kyleigh Bigelow and sophomore Katelyn Messner in the 4x200 relay … Ellerbrock's time of 10:26.29 in the 3,000 meters was a personal-best and is the third-best time in the OAC this season and ranks seventh all-time at ONU … Sophomore Toria Ingalls has a season-best mark of 1.57 meters in the high jump, which ranks third in OAC.
Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 14th season as the head coach at ONU … He owns a 503-166-1 overall record indoors for a .752 winning percentage and a 426-168-3 overall record outdoors for a .716 winning percentage.