Abena Boamah-Acheampong

Abena Boamah-Acheampong won an individual championship in the high jump, and the women's distance medley team broke a school record en route to its own all-conference honors, leading The College of Wooster's women's team to sixth-place at the North Coast Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships, hosted by Oberlin College Friday and Saturday, while the Fighting Scots' men's team took eighth overall.

Wooster's women racked up 41 points in all, while the men scored 14.5 points. Ohio Wesleyan University and Wabash College were the winning schools on the women's and men's sides, respectively.

Highlighting the women's results was high jump specialist Boamah-Acheampong, who captured her first individual championship by clearing the bar at 5 feet, 1.75 inches. Also impressive, Erin Plews-Ogan, Whitney Rappole, Kelsie Herring, and Meredith Shaul took second-place in the distance medley in 12:49.81, which broke the existing school record (12:50.11) they had set earlier this year.

Shaul was also solid in individual action, as she just missed out on picking up a second all-NCAC certificate by grinding out a fourth-place finish in the 5000 meter run (18.29:08).

Other notables include Miriam Wise's fifth-place finish in the triple jump (32 feet, 1 inches), and double-scorer Veronique Jones, who took sixth in the shot put (37 feet, 9.5 inches) and seventh in the weight throw (33 feet, 11 inches).

Rounding out the women's scorers, Taylor Morgan took seventh in the 800 meter run (2:26.52) and Tricia Hall was eighth in the pole vault (8 feet, 11 inches).

On the men's side, throwing specialist Josh Kime had Wooster's most impressive result, as he narrowly missed all-conference honors by placing fourth in the shot put at 46 feet, 6 inches. Also scoring in individual events was Quinton Howard with a seventh-place in the high jump (5 feet, 7.75 inches) and Jay Marshall in eighth in the pole vault event (11 feet, 5.75 inches).

In other action, Micah Caunter, Stephen Ferguson, Benjamin Althaus, and Kevin DeGroot crossed the finish line sixth in the distance medley in 10:46.01. Ferguson also earned points towards today's team total at last week's NCAC heptathlon when he took eight-place honors.