Grove City to host this weekend’s PAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships 4/23/2015 9:17:18 AM Championships Home Championships Schedule Heat Sheets (html) Heat Sheets (pdf) Live Event Scoring (active at the start of the meet) GREENVILLE, Pa. – Grove City College will host the 2015 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Track & Field Championships this Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, at Robert E. Thorn Field. The league’s 60th annual championship event will get underway at 3 p.m. on Friday, with Saturday’s event schedule beginning at 11 a.m. Last season’s PAC Championships – Men Grove City’s men's track and field team edged three-time defending league champion Westminster College by just 3.40 points for the 2014 team title, the program’s first since 2009. Grove City totaled 131 points, while host Westminster finished with 127.60. Waynesburg University was third in the team standings with 104 points, followed by Thiel College in fourth (80.60), Geneva College in fifth (75.60), Saint Vincent College in sixth (70), Thomas More College in seventh (66.20), Bethany College in eight (58), and Washington & Jefferson College in ninth (23). Waynesburg senior Byrum Louco (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) garnered the PAC's Most Valuable Performer honor, along with the event's Track MVP award, for the second-straight year. Louco claimed individual victories in the 400 (48.87) and the 400 hurdles (54.17) and finished third in the 110 hurdles (15.96). He was also a member of Waynesburg's first-place 4x400 (3:24.19) and third-place 4x100 (43.32) relays and posted a fifth-place finish in the long jump (20-04.50). Thiel senior Nic Jones (Franklin, Pa./Franklin) captured the PAC's Field MVP award. Jones earned a first-place finish in the high jump (6-09.75) and finished second in the long jump (22-08.00) and the triple jump (45-04.25). Grove City fifth-year head coach Todd Gibson earned the conference's Men’s Coach of the Year award. Last season’s PAC Championships – Women The Grove City women's track and field team captured its first PAC title since 2005 by totaling 222 points at the 2014 Championships. The Wolverines earned a 59-point margin of victory over runner-up Westminster College (163 points). It is the largest margin of victory at the conference championships since 2005, when Grove City won by 61 points. The 222 team points are the most at the conference championships by any school since Grove City's 238-point effort in 2003. Washington & Jefferson College finished third with 103 points, followed by Waynesburg University (53) and Geneva College tied for fourth (53), Bethany College in sixth (48.50), Thomas More College in seventh (37.50), Thiel College in eighth (34), Saint Vincent College in ninth (15) and Chatham University in 10th (10). Grove City junior Emily Rabenold (Allison Park, Pa./Hampton) earned the league's Most Valuable Performer honor after recording three of Grove City's seven wins during the meet. She won the 10,000 in 40 minutes, 8.29 seconds Friday night and then won the 3,000 steeplechase Saturday with a meet-record time of 11:12.09. Rabenold closed her weekend by winning the 5,000 in 18:10.84. Grove City sophomore Katie Hess (Medina, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) captured Field Athlete of the Year laurels, winning the triple jump with a best leap of 34 feet, 3 inches. She also took third in the high jump (4-10 1/4) and fourth in the long jump (16-3 1/4). W&J’s Cheyenne Mangold (Boerne, Texas/Texas Military Institute) and Westminster’s Haley Gabor (New Kensington, Pa./Ford City) were selected as Co-Track Athletes of the Year. Mangold finished first in the 400 (57.35), second in the 400 hurdles (1:06.50), third in the 200 (25.71), seventh in the 100 (12.91) and was member of W&J's second-place 4x100 (50.01) and 4x400 (4:02.04) relays. Gabor was first in the 200 (25.25), second in the 100 (12.50) and 400 (57.48) and ran on Westminster's first-place 4x400 (4:00.51) and third-place 4x100 (50.34) relay squads. Gabor's 200 time also established a new conference meet record. Gibson also earned the conference's Women’s Coach of the Year award.