Junior Isabelle Hoover won the 10,000 meters at the NCAC Championships. Photo by Matt Dilyard.

Junior Isabelle Hoover started the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships in style by winning the 10,000 meters, and The College of Wooster had five all-conference performances on a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon at Denison University's Deeds Field-Piper Stadium. The Fighting Scots placed sixth at the meet.

Hoover, the top seed in the 10,000 meters by nearly 40 seconds, lived up to the No. 1 seed, cruising to a near 27-second victory on Sunday. Hoover stopped the watch at 38:00.59. The classical languages major is the fifth Scot to win the 10,000 meters at the NCAC Championships, joining Linda Stevenson (1986, 1987), Stephanie Scierka (1988), Emily Gorka (1998), and Katie Wieferich (2006, 2007).

Junior Claudia Partridge scored all-conference honors in the high jump with an impressive runner-up finish. Partridge cleared 5 feet, 1.5 inches on try one of the progression, and that surged the business economics major past Ohio Wesleyan's Sarah Watson. Partridge was seeded fifth in the event, and Watson was fourth. The all-conference honor marked Partridge's fourth and first in the high jump. Elsewhere in the jumps, first-year Drew Patterson earned all-conference honors in the triple jump. There, the Scots' rookie entered the day seeded fourth, and finished third at 33 feet, 6.5 inches.

In the pole vault, Morgan Kromer needed to clear 10 feet, 6 inches to stay in all-conference contention, and the junior did just that on her final attempt at the progression. That mark garnered a third-place finish, and with it, Kromer scored her first All-NCAC honor.

First-year Athena Tharenos rounded out the all-conference honorees with the third-place time of 2:25.62 in the 800 meters.

Five other finishes by Scots nearly netted All-NCAC honors. Junior Kayla Bertholf's career-best time of 39:31.95 in the 10,000 meters was good for a fourth-place showing, as was sophomore Haley Bloom's collegiate-best 1:01.94 in the 400 meters. Senior Georgia Hopps-Weber topped out at 10 feet in the pole vault, with that marking another fourth-place effort by the Scots. Partridge, junior Maya Vasta, Patterson, and Kromer stopped the clock at 51.68 in the 4x100 relay, while in the 4x400, Vasta, senior Zoe Covey, Bloom, and Tharenos finished at 4:21.32. Both Wooster relays took fourth-place at the championships.

Scoring elsewhere for the Scots were Patterson in the long jump (sixth-place, 15 feet, 5 inches), first-year Mary Sirois in the 100-meter hurdles (sixth-place, 16.95), Sirois in the 400-meter hurdles (sixth-place, 1:18.00), Vasta in the 200 meters (sixth-place 27.67), Vasta in the 100 meters (seventh-place, 13.59), junior Grace von Scheliha in the pole vault (seventh-place, 9 feet, 6.25 inches), and Covey in the 400 meters (eighth-place, 1:04.05).

Allegheny College won its 14th conference title and first since 2008 with 177 points. Ohio Wesleyan University (172 points), Denison (124 points), DePauw University (111.5 points), Wittenberg University (110 points), and Wooster (77.5 points) rounded out the field.