SPRINGFIELD, Ohio – The College of Wooster won five events, earned 10 All-Ohio honors, and broke three school records at Saturday's Div. III All-Ohio Championships, which were contested inside the Steemer on the campus of Wittenberg University. Wooster's men were second of 14 scoring teams, and the top finisher among North Coast Athletic Conference programs in the field, while the women claimed sixth-place of 13 scoring teams.

Luke Henke's career day helped set the tone, as the senior scored the first event win of the championships in the high jump. Henke cleared 6 feet, 6.75 inches, and in doing so, upped his career-high by 2.5 inches and was within 1.25 inches of Wooster's 9-year-old school record.

Later, junior Drew Patterson took down Wittenberg's Taylor Weiss in a jump off to claim first-place in the high jump. Both competitors were successful at every progression they attempted through 5 feet, 4.5 inches and then could not get over the bar beyond that. Senior Claudia Partridge just missed on All-Ohio honors with a fourth-place high jump of 5 feet, 3.5 inches as did first-year Essaie Mezmur, who bowed out at 6 feet, 3.25 inches in the men's competition, which was fourth. Sophomore Echo Kidd was sixth and junior Davis Patterson seventh in the high jump, giving Wooster half of the scorers on the men's side. Both cleared 6 feet, 1.25 inches.

On the track, junior Athena Tharenos held off Case Western Reserve University's Jessica Kwasny down the stretch to win the 800 meters at 2:21.86, which was just ahead of the runner-up time of 2:22.02. Senior Joe Shilts, senior Nick Scherson, Patterson, and senior Will McMichael put the exclamation on a successful day with the winning time of 3:21.56 in the 4x400 relay. Wooster's star quartet had the winning time by over four seconds, and they set a new school record, with the oversized to flat NCAA indoor conversion, per the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, computing to 3:24.79. McMichael had two records on the day, as he was the 400 meters runner-up at 48.41, with that computing to 49.19 when converted to a flat 200 meters track.

All-Ohio honors were synonymous with Wooster's pole vaulters. Junior Dylan Garretson scored a huge win over the University of Mount Union's Kyel Wolff, who holds the top mark in Div. III this season. Wolff was unable to get over the bar at 15 feet, 10.25 inches, leaving the opening for Garretson, who cleared the progression on his second attempt. Of note, Garretson is now a two-time All-Ohio champion and he has 25 pole vault victories at Wooster. Patterson backed his classmate up with the third-place mark of 14 feet, 10.25 inches.

First-year Lorenzo Freeman lowered his 60-meter hurdles record to 8.47. He qualified fourth for the finals of the 60-meter hurdles with the time of 8.58 just a whisker off the school record of 8.57. Freeman's extra burst in the finals enabled an improvement to third-place, the final All-Ohio spot.

Wooster did not have a relay place lower than sixth on the day. Sophomore Drew Robertson, Scherson, sophomore Cam Ray, and sophomore Ben Nichols scored All-Ohio honors with the runner-up time of 10:43.01 in the distance medley relay, as did Tharenos, senior Haley Bloom, first-year Izzy Cozzie, and sophomore Igna Mendez, who rounded out the All-Ohio honors with the third-place time of 4:12.73 in the 4x400 relay. Junior Mary Sirois, Cozzie, sophomore Emily Munson, and sophomore Maia Doescher just missed on All-Ohio honors with the fourth-place time of 1:50.89 in the 4x200 relay, which was the exact same time Muskingum University crossed the finish. Shilts, Scherson, sophomore Liam Regan, and first-year Khaleel Manderson claimed sixth in the men's 4x200 relay with a time of 1:32.18.

Other scorers for the Scots were first-year Evie Sanford (shot put, fifth, 37 feet, 9.5 inches), junior Ainsley Wiesner (weight throw, fifth, 47 feet, 1 inch), senior Morgan Kromer (pole vault, sixth, 10 feet, 2.75 inches), Robertson (800 meters, sixth, 2:00.18), and Sirois (60-meter hurdles, eighth, 9.76).

National power Mount Union swept the team titles at the meet.

Next, Wooster competes at the Kenyon College Classic on Friday, February 17.