Hilary Coady

Hilary Coady earned all-Ohio honors in the statewide pentathlon competition, improving seven spots from last year to third-place, and upped her school record in the event by almost 200 points, as The College of Wooster's standout multi-eventer excelled at the All-Ohio Div. III Track & Field Championships on Sunday afternoon at Granville, Ohio.

Going up against some of the best college athletes in the Buckeye State, including several of the nation's best, Coady, who hopes to qualify for the NCAA Div. III Championships in the event, more than held her own.

The junior standout began the day by resetting another one of her school records with a 9.42 time in the 60-meter hurdles, good for a runner-up finish out of the 15 participants.

Next, Coady got past six heights on her way to a top clearance of 5 feet, 0.25 inches in the high jump, and followed with maybe her most impressive effort of the day as she had the second-best throw in the shot put (32 feet), her weakest event.

After hitting a mark of 15 feet, 3.25 inches in the long jump, Coady finished strong by covering the 800 meters in 2:26.09, just two hundredths of a second shy of winning the event.

Coady's total of 3,201 was 100 points better than 12 of the 15 competitors and only behind Melanie Winters (3,589) of Baldwin Wallace University and Denison University's Aedin Brennan (3,320), both of whom were All-Americans in the pentathlon last year.