Carolyn Webster

Conor Maley

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WOOSTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster's track and field programs emerged from the North Coast Athletic Conference Multi-Event Championships on a strong note, as sophomore Carolyn Webster and senior Taryn Szalay garnered All-NCAC accolades with first- and third-place finishes, respectively, in the women's pentathlon while senior Conor Maley etched his name atop the program's annals with a school record in the men's heptathlon.

In women's action, Webster finished second or better in four of the five events, including winning leaps in the high jump (5 feet, 3.75 inches) and long jump (16 feet, 7.75 inches) en route to 3,098 points, nearly 400 points more than the runner-up, Emily Brown, of Ohio Wesleyan University (2,699). Webster's win marks the program's first victory in the women's pentathlon.

As part of her career-best point total, the sophomore posted personal records in the 800 meters (2:47.06), 60-meter hurdles (9.71), and shot put (31 feet, 3.75 inches), with the latter two events marking second-place finishes.

Szalay, who totaled 2,603 points with one first-place finish and three top-five finishes overall, logged personal bests in all but one event, the 60-meter hurdles, an event which she won with a time of 9.66, just .02 seconds off her career-best set earlier in the year.

The senior clocked in a fifth-place time in the 800 (2:43.93) and matched that with a fifth-place finish in the high jump, leaping to 4 feet, 7 inches. Szalay finished in sixth-place in the long jump (14 feet, 4.50 inches) and shot put (25 feet, 7.50 inches).

In the men's heptathlon, both Maley (3,844) and sophomore Jordan Dennis (3,822) bested the previous school record of 3,769 points set by David Brew in 2014, but the senior's third-place finish (2:55.16) in the final event – the 1,000 meters – gave him the points edge and the program record as Dennis followed, finishing in fourth-place (3:00.43) in the event. Overall, Maley finished in fifth and Dennis in sixth.

Maley came away with top-six finishes in four events, including a third-place and personal-best throw of 37 feet, 11.25 inches in the shot put. Maley put up three other PR's over the weekend, breaking the 10-second barrier in the 60-meter hurdles (9.66) and clearing 5 feet, 5.75 inches in the high jump – both sixth-place finishes – and logging a time of 7.73 in the 60-meter dash.

Dennis clocked in a top-four finish in four of the seven events, finishing third in the 60-meter dash (7.40) and 60-meter hurdles (8.87), and fourth in the 1,000 (3:00.43) as well as a tie for fourth-place in the high jump (5 feet, 7 inches).

These four student-athletes will join the rest of their team next weekend as the Fighting Scots head to Oberlin College for the NCAC Indoor Championships on March 3-4 at Oberlin, Ohio.