Vance Closes Track & Field Career With School Record

Keith Vance

Keith Vance upped his NCAA Div. III Championships provisional-qualifying mark in the shot put at the Baldwin-Wallace Twilight Meet on May 21, however, it was not quite enough for the senior to earn an individual bid to the national meet. The College of Wooster will not have a representative at NCAA’s.

Vance’s mark of 51 feet, 6.5 inches upped his school record in the event and gave him the 22nd-longest throw of the 2004 outdoor season, but the NCAA only offered bids to the top-17.

Wooster’s other provisional qualifier, sophomore pole vaulter Jill Berner, was unable to improve her qualifying height at Baldwin-Wallace. Berner’s top mark this spring was 11 feet, one inch, good for 21st in Div. III. The NCAA only invited 16 women’s pole vaulters to the national meet.

Other Scots who competed at the B-W Twilight Meet were Rick Drushal, who came in seventh in the shot put (46 feet, 5.25 inches) and 10th in the discus (126 feet, nine inches), and Tim Presto, who placed 10th in the 1500 meters (4:03.43).