Moorefield, Tecklenburg Named to All-Decade Team

Emily Moorefield

Sandy Tecklenburg

College of Wooster alums Emily Moorefield (Shreve, Ohio / Triway) and Sandy Tecklenburg (Cincinnati, Ohio / Anderson) were selected to the North Coast Athletic Conference All-Decade Team (1993-2002) for women’s cross country, announced the league office on Monday. The former Scots, both of whom ran under current head coach Dennis Rice, took up two spots on the elite 10-member team.

Moorefield, who returned to her Wayne County roots at the start of the 1993-94 academic year after two years at Muskingum College, turned out to be one of Wooster’s most accomplished athletes ever as she finished in the top-20 at the NCAA Division III Championships in her two seasons. The junior transfer wasted little time in making her presence known with the Scots, earning first-team all-conference honors with a runner-up performance at the NCAC meet (19:01) and an 18th-place effort at nationals.

As impressive as those credentials were, Moorefield turned it up a notch her senior season. She won individual titles at both the NCAC (18:55) and NCAA Div. III Great Lakes Regional Championships (18:02), capped by a fifth-place showing at the NCAA Championships with a time of 18:03.6 in the 5000 meter race.

Tecklenburg gained a reputation as the most consistently successful women’s harrier in school history, as she remains the only Scot to have earned first-team All-NCAC honors in all four seasons of competition (1997-2000). Tecklenburg never finished below seventh at the NCAC Championships and placed as high as second with a personal-best time of 18:42 as a senior. Tecklenburg capped her stellar career by qualifying for nationals with a third-place performance at the 2000 Great Lakes Regional Championships (18:50), and then coming in 83rd at the NCAA Championships (19:14).

In celebrating the league’s 20th anniversary, the NCAC is releasing a second set of All-Decade Teams for all 22 sports that it sponsors throughout 2003-04. The NCAC previously picked All-Decade Teams for student-athletes from the years of 1984-1993 when honoring its 10th year of operation.