Men's NCAC All-Decade Release | Women's NCAC All-Decade Release
College of Wooster legends Hilary Coady, Dylan Garretson, Will McMichael, and Carolyn Webster earned North Coast Athletic Conference 40th Anniversary All-Decade Team honors, as announced by the conference office on Thursday afternoon.
Coady, a three-time All-American, capped her career as the 2016 NCAA Div. III heptathlon runner-up. Two of Coady's three All-America certificates came during the outdoor season, as she was seventh in the 400-meter hurdles (1:02.15) at the 2015 NCAA Div. III Championships. The 11-time outdoor All-NCAC performer qualified for the all-decade team as a three-time 400-meter hurdles champion. Coady ran a 1:03.56 at conference in 2014 and followed that with the winning times of 1:02.02 in 2015 and 1:00.86 in 2016. Coady's 19 All-NCAC honors are tied for the fifth-most in program history, while her 11 outdoor awards are the third-most. Coady still holds the school record in the heptathlon at 5,020 points.
Garretson, a two-time All-American, is a two-time qualifier for the NCAA Div. III Outdoor Championships in the pole vault. He is seeking to become the first in NCAC history to win four outdoor conference titles in the pole vault and move up to third all-time in program history with seven conference championships. Last spring, Garretson became the first Wooster male to win the same event at the NCAC Outdoor Championships three separate times. At the conference meet, he cleared 15 feet, 5 inches, then went on to break his outdoor school record in the pole vault with a mark of 16 feet, 4.75 inches at the University of Mount Union's Last Chance Tune-Up.
McMichael capped his Wooster career as a national qualifier in the 400 meters in 2023. The three-time NCAC outdoor 400 meters champion ended his time at Wooster as a six-time conference champion, which is tied for the third-most in program history. McMichael earned six of his 10 All-NCAC honors during the outdoor season and holds the program records in the 400 meters (47.45) and 4x400 relay (3:17.43), with both records being set during the 2023 season. He was the NCAC Sprints and Hurdles Athlete of the Year following the 2023 conference championships.
Webster, the NCAC Athlete of the Year for field events as a senior, was a 20-time All-NCAC performer during her career. As a senior, Webster won the heptathlon (4,263 points) and the long jump (18 feet, 3 inches) at the NCAC Championships and was the third-place finisher in the high jump (5 feet, 2.5 inches). Webster earned 10 All-NCAC outdoor laurels with three top-two placements in the heptathlon, four top-three finishes in the high jump, and three top-three finishes in the long jump. Webster's 20 All-NCAC honors are tied for third-most all-time and her 10 outdoor certificates are the sixth-most. Her career-best high jump of 5 feet, 7.75 inches is just shy of the program record, and she logged the third-best heptathlon score and fourth-furthest long jump in program history. Webster was a four-time national qualifier and a 13-time USTFCCCA All-Region honoree. Two NCAA Div. III Championships appearances came during the outdoor season as did eight all-region honors.
A NCAC major award (Sprints and Hurdles Athlete of the Year, Middle-Distance and Distance Athlete of the Year, or Field Athlete of the Year) or at least three first-place conference finishes in the same event between 2014 and 2023 were the criteria to qualify for the all-decade team.