Tyler Catlin

Paris Nahas

The College of Wooster had another impressive haul with an individual title, two runner-up finishes, four all-conference certificates, and four school records on the final day of the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships held at Kenyon College's Barrett A. Toan Track in Gambier, Ohio. The Scots finished sixth in both standings with the women collecting 72.5 points and the men finishing with 37.

Ohio Wesleyan University had a big day in the men's meet, overtaking Wabash College by a final count of 223-183.5, with Wittenberg University taking third at 79.5 points. On the women's side, the Battling Bishops 171 points were nearly 40 points better than Oberlin College's runner-up haul of 131.5 points. Denison University claimed third-place honors with 91 points.

Paris Nahas won the Fighting Scots' second individual title of the meet. The senior broke a 22-year-old school record in the 400 meters clocking in at 58.47. She surpassed the old mark set by W Association Hall of Famer, and All-American Claire Roberts, who turned in a fourth-place time of 58.88 at the 1994 NCAA Div. III Indoor National Championships. Additionally, Nahas is the first Scot on the women's side to win the indoor 400 at the NCAC Championships since Roberts.

Nahas capped the meet by teaming up with Hilary Coady, Julia Higgins, and Emani Kelley to earn an all-conference certificate via a school-record, and runner-up, time of 4:02.16 in the 4x400 relay.

For Coady, the all-NCAC certificate marked her second of the meet, having picked one up last weekend via a school-record, and second-place finish, in the pentathlon. The multi-event specialist now has 14 (eight indoor, six outdoor) all-conference certificates, a total 10th in the program annals for the NCAC-era. Additionally, Coady is the eighth Scot to earn at least eight all-NCAC honors for indoor track & field.

First-year Carolyn Webster capped her strong debut conference meet with a runner-up leap in the long jump. Webster's all-conference mark of 17 feet, 11.5 inches was just .5 inches off of W Association Hall of Famer Justina Williams' indoor school record.

Wooster's other all-conference laurel came in the weight throw where senior Tyler Catlin upped his school record again, this time to 48 feet, 8.25 inches. Catlin placed third in the event.

Jacob Denbeaux set Wooster's fourth school record of the day. The first-year navigated the 3000 meters with a sixth-place clip of 8:46.06, besting Blake Pecoraro's 2015 NCAC time of 8:47.31.

The Scots also added a pair of fourth-place finishes on Saturday.

On the men's side John Petrecca cleared 6 feet, 4 inches in the high jump.

In the women's meet, Nahas clocked in at 26.24 in the 200 meters.

Other individual scoring performances were turned in by Ben Kingstone, who was sixth in the 60-meter dash; Jarrett Art, who was eighth in the long jump; and Taryn Szalay, who was eighth in the 60-meter hurdles.

Wooster's other three relays also scored points for the Scots on Saturday.

First, the women's 4x200 consisting of Coady, Nahas, Szalay, and Erika Womack teamed up to turn in a fifth-place time of 1:53.18. Next, the men's 4x200 quartet of Kingstone, Justin Fox, Thomas McGrath, and Myles Parker turned in an eighth-place time of 1:36.93. Later, Art and Parker joined forces with Cullen King and Brian Lief to end the meet with a seventh-place clip of 3:35.66 in the 4x400.

For the meet, the Scots' finished with two individual championships, four runner-up honors, nine all-conference certificates, and eight school records. Wooster's nine all-conference laurels were the most at an indoor championship since the Scots won 12 (six men, six women) in 2001.

Of note, Wooster's men's finish was a three-spot improvement from last year. The Scots' sixth-place showing marked the highest outing by the team since the 2008 indoor conference meet, where Wooster also finished in sixth-place with 48 points.

For the women, the 72.5 points marked the first time the Scots surpassed 70 points at the indoor meet since the 2012 championships.