Neville earns second All-America honor, Robinson breaks record at NCAAs
Indoor Track & Field Friday, March 13th, 2009
TERRE HAUTE, IN- Wheaton College sophomore Erin Neville (North Providence, RI/La Salle Academy) earned her second career All-America finish on Friday, taking third in the high jump during day one of the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sports and Recreation Center.
Neville reached a height of 5′ 5 1/4″ while matching the placement she recorded in the event during the NCAA indoor meet as a freshman, ensuring the Lyons had at least one field athlete record an All-America finish for the 11th straight indoor national championship, including for the sixth consecutive year in the high jump. Freshman Lauren McGrath (Wading River, NY/Shoreham-Wading River) joined Neville in the 15-athlete field, as Wheaton was the lone team to have a pair of competitors in the event.
Two others Lyons competed on Friday, with freshman Cailean Robinson (Newton, MA/Phillips Exeter Academy) running to a school-record 6.39 during the men's 55-meter dash trials and classmate Mickey Jusme (Providence, RI/Classical) taking part in the women's long jump. Robinson, who eclipsed a mark he had set on February 27, qualified for the eight-runner final round by taking third in his seven-athlete field.
Jusme returns to action tomorrow during the second and final day of competition in the triple jump, which begins at 11:30 a.m. The 55M finals begin for Robinson at 3:25 p.m., while Wheaton's women's 4×400M relay quartet hits the track at 4:40 p.m.