Men’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 men'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 32nd consecutive winning season indoors and 19th straight winning season outdoors in 2022 with respective records of 32-3 and 16-3 … The Polar Bears return 37 lettermen from their 2022 team that posted a third-place finish at the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships and a fourth-place finish at the outdoor OACs … This season's roster is headlined by junior Keegan Digby, who closed 2022 as an All-American with a seventh-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships … Digby owns the school record in the outdoor shot put with a mark of 16.38 meters and ranks second all-time in the indoor shot put with a mark of 15.64 meters … Digby is the reigning OAC champion in both the indoor and outdoor shot put … Other top returners include seniors Hunter Kesler, Vini Souza, Brandon Berry, Brooks Blakeley and Ollie Jacobs; juniors Tommy Vetrovsky, David Gross, Trey Myers and Canyon Neundorfer; and sophomores Jordan Dean, Ross Schlatter, Ryan Massie and Landon Remmert … Gross, Kesler, Souza, Myers, Dean, Digby and Vetrovsky were All-Great Lakes Region honorees last season … Myers is the reigning OAC champion in the outdoor 800 meters as well as the indoor 4x400 meter relay with Gross and Schlatter.
Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 14th season as the head coach at ONU … He owns a 578-143 overall record indoors for an .802 winning percentage and a 508-142-2 overall record outdoors for a .781 winning percentage.
