Grove City to host PAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships

Grove City to host PAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships

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Meet Information
• Date: Thursday-Friday, April 25-26
• Location: Grove City College's Robert E. Thorn Field | Grove City, Pa.
• Meet Schedule: Link
• PAC Championships records: Link
• Program: Link 

Performance lists, qualifying standards
• 2019 PAC Performance List: link
• 2019 NCAA Division III Performance List: link
• 2019 ECAC Division III Qualifying Standards: link

GREENVILLE, Pa. (pacathletics.org)--Grove City College will host this year’s Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Outdoor Track and Field Championships Thursday-Friday, April 25-26 at Robert E. Thorn Field in Grove City, Pa.  

Grove City last hosted the conference championships in 2015, when it claimed both the men's and women's team titles for the second-straight year. 

The championships are scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, beginning with eight event finals and preliminaries in the men’s 100 meters and 110-meter hurdles and women’s 100 meters and 100-meter hurdles.

Thirty event finals are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Friday. The awards ceremony is tentatively planned for 7:45 p.m. Friday evening.

Last season’s PAC Championships – Men
2018 results
Geneva cruised to its second-straight PAC men’s title at Westminster’s Burry Stadium. Geneva totaled 173 points during the two-day, 19-event championship event. Thomas More was the runner-up with 112 points. Grove City was third (102), W&J was fourth (97), Bethany was fifth (73.33), host Westminster was sixth (64), Waynesburg was seventh (45.33), Thiel was eighth (41), Saint Vincent was ninth (28) and Chatham was 10th (4.33).

W&J’s Harley Moyer (Akron, Ohio | Firestone) was voted the meet’s overall Most Outstanding Performer after wins in the 10,000 meters (32:18.12), 5,000 meters (15:12.12) and 1,500 meters (4:01.84). Moyer was also the event’s Most Outstanding Performer on the track.

Bethany’s Baboucar Sallah-Mohammed (Arlington, Va. | Fishburne Military) claimed the event’s Most Outstanding Performer in the field award after winning the triple jump (43-9.75, 13.35m) and the long jump (23-4.75, 7.13m). He also finished third in the 200 meters (22.361).

Geneva’s Phil Thompson was voted the league’s coach of the year for the second-straight year. 


Last season’s PAC Championships – Women
2018 results
Waynesburg earned its third-straight PAC team title at Westminster's Burry Stadium. The league title was Waynesburg’s fourth (2013, 2016-18) overall. Waynesburg recorded 173 points during the 19-event, two-day championship event. Host Westminster totaled 147 points to finish as runner-up. Geneva was third (108.50), Grove City was fourth (100.50), W&J was fifth (71.50), Thomas More was sixth (43), Bethany was seventh (40.50), Chatham was eighth (38) and Saint Vincent was ninth (18).

Geneva’s Nicole Bartoletta (Monaca, Pa. | Central Valley) was voted the meet’s overall Most Outstanding Performer for the second-straight year. Bartoletta was also the event’s Most Outstanding Performer on the track for the second year in a row.

During the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles, Bartoletta posted a PAC Championships record time of 14.36 seconds. She won the final with a time of 14.88. Bartoletta was the runner-up in the 100 meters (12.20) and 200 meters (25.29) and ran leadoff on Geneva’s winning 4x100-meter relay (47.89). The remaining members of the relay that cruised to a new PAC Championships record were Eladia Kennedy (McKeesport, Pa. | Imani Christian Academy), Kailee Loose (Beaver, Pa. | Beaver) and Jessica Kelosky (Fombell, Pa. | Riverside).

Waynesburg’s Addy Knetzer (Houston, Pa. | Chartiers-Houston) was the event’s Most Outstanding Performer in the field for the fourth-straight year. She won the shot put with a throw of 42 feet, 6 inches (12.95m), was the runner-up in the discus (122-10, 37.46m) and was fourth in the javelin (122-11, 34.17m).

Waynesburg’s Michelle Cross was voted the league’s Coach of the Year.