Berner Wins Pole Vault to Highlight Scots' NCAC Track Meet

The College of Wooster men’s and women’s track and field teams closed out their indoor season this past weekend (March 4-5), placing eighth and ninth, respectively, at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships, hosted by Denison University.

While the Wooster men finished a spot higher with 15 points in its field, the Scot women scored more (25.5 points). Allegheny College won both team championships, with its men tallying 161 points and the women 134.

Individually for Wooster, junior Jill Berner won her second-straight NCAC indoor pole vault title, clearing 10 feet, four inches to edge Kenyon College’s Katy Cameron (10 feet).

The Scots’ other all-conference performance came from the distance medley relay. The team of freshman Nicole Calderone, junior Hannah Bierlein, junior Tiffany White, and sophomore Katie Wieferich finished runner-up (13:09.60), just over a second off of Allegheny’s pace.

There was one event, in which Wooster had a pair of individual scorers, as freshman Kelly Patton and senior Heather Reed took sixth (9.30) and eighth (9.40), respectively.

Also scoring for the women’s team were sophomore Dana Doran-Myers, who tied for eighth in the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches), as well as the 4x400- and 4x200-meter relay teams, which came in seventh (4:25.72) and eighth (1:53.54), respectively.

On the men’s side, the Scots’ top scorer was sophomore Rob Kelm, who was one place shy of earning All-NCAC recognition, taking fourth in the 55-meter hurdles (8.26). Tristan Jordan contributed a fifth-place effort in the triple jump (41 feet, 0.25 inches) in the freshman’s first career conference meet, as did junior Colin Turner in the 800 meters (2:00.66), while sophomore Rick Drushal added a seventh-place showing in the shot put (43 feet, 2.25 inches).