Women's Track gets three MIAC awards

May 17, 2005
Tommie All-Americans Brigid Power and Kristal Grigsby were selected MIAC Women's Most Outstanding Track Athlete and Most Outstanding Field Athlete, respectively for their performances at last weekend's outdoor championship meet.

Coach Joe Sweeney also was named MIAC Women's Coach of the Year.

Power (SR-Eden Prairie), a two-time All-American and NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, won her seventh and eighth career MIAC championships as she swept the 800 (2:17.79) and 1,500 (4:42.2). She is ranked ninth in the 1,500 and 17th in the 800 on the NCAA D-III season list.

Grigsby (JR-Minneapolis/Blake), a two-time NCAA champion in the long jump, had a hand in four victories and now has 11 MIAC championship in her last two seasons (indoors and outdoors). Her Saturday triple jump victory is a meet-record (distance of 38-0 1-4) and helped her sweep the long, high and triple jumps. She also anchored the winning 4x400 relay as well as scored with an eighth in the 100 (13.28) and a sixth in the 200 (26.52). Grigsby is ranked first in the long jump, tied for fifth in the high jump and seventh in the triple jump on the NCAA Division III season charts.

The MIAC Women's Most Outstanding Performance award went to Grigsby for her meet record performance in the long jump. Others receiving votes included Anshley Dingles of St. Mary's (1st / Heptathlon), Molly Bauman of St. Thomas (1st / 400 hurdles), and the Macalester 4x800 relay team (1st / Koby Hagen, Anna Shamey, Allison Woerpel, Emily Stafford / meet record).

see MIAC news release here