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Open Meet Information
(January 28, 2006)
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Akron Women Win 2005 MAC Cross Country Championships
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Zips Compete Well at Penn State
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Rudzinska
& Zips Women Win All Ohio Titles. Men Take 6th.
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Men
Third at Central Collegiate Championships
Results
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Beata
Rudzinska Named MAC Runner of the Week
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Zips
Top Buffalo in Tommy Evans Invitational
Men's Results | Women's Results
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Zips
Cross Country Opens Season Saturday
Men and
Women Compete Against Buffalo at Firestone Metro Park
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Three
Zips Earn All American Honors at NCAA Championships
Ashley
Kaufman (Javelin, 159' 3" - School Record)
Beata Rudzinska (800m, 2:03.14 - School Record)
John Russell (Pole Vault, 17' 8.5")
NCAA
Results
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Zips
Send 6 to NCAA Championships
John
Russell - PV, Regional Champ, 18' 1"
Tomasz Smialek - HJ
Jennie
Castle - 1500
Ashley
Kaufman - JT
Beata
Rudzinska - 800
Natalie
Sako - HJ
NCAA
Accepted Entry Lists
Women | Men
 
 
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Beata
Rudzinska Profile at trackshark.com
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Zips
Travel to MAC Championships
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Campbell/Wright
Open Results
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Smialek
Crowned Penn Relays High Jump Champion
Tomasz
Smialek won the college championship high jump at the Penn Relays
Saturday with a 7' 1/2" clearance. Smialek bested Dusty
Jonas of Nebraska, who was the runner-up in the 2005 NCAA Indoor
Championships, and Andra Manson of Texas, who was third in that
event. Smialek and the rest of the Zips will be back in action
in the season's final home meet, the Campbell/Wright Open. The
hammer throw and developmental pole vault will be held on Friday
afternoon at 4:00 pm. Saturday's events commence at 2:00 pm.
The Campbell/Wright Open will be the final home track competition
for seniors Chris Bennett, Devin Booker, Adam Bray, Jon Morgan,
Lindsay Feiten, and Beata Rudzinska.
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Zips
Sweep All Ohio Titles
The
Akron track teams took home both team titles at the All Ohio
Championships. The women tallied 197 points to easily eclipse
runnerup Ohio State's total of 126, while the men scored 168
points to hold off second-place Cincinnati with 157. The Zips
captured 14 events and came home with 9 regional qualifying marks.
In addition school records were broken in the women's 400m (Brittany
Hocker, 54.22), women's discus (Liz Mangen, 158' 1"), and
the women's 4x 100m relay (Tamala Perryman, Deanna Caldwell,
Corine Gavin-Hall, Brittany Hocker, 45.47)
GoZips.com
Story
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Jennie
Castle Named MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week Too!
Senior
Jennie Castle received more accolades from the Mid-American Conference
office as she was named this week's female Scholar Athlete.
Scholar Athlete
recognition is awarded by the conference schools' faculty athletics
representatives. Recipients must have a grade point average of
3.00 or better and have performed well athletically that week.
Castle, a mass-media communication major, carries a 3.76 GPA.
She ran conference-leading marks of 2:06.91 (800m) and 4:23.26
at the Duke Invitational.
MAC
Website
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Jennie
Castle Named MAC Track Athlete of the Week
Winning
the 800m race at the Duke Invitational in a personal best and
regional qualifying time of 2:06.91 and running a 4:23.26 1500m
(also a PR and regional qualifying time) earned Jennie Castle
the MAC's female Track Athlete of the Week honor.
In
addition, Castle joins teammate Beata Rudzinska on Trackwire's
"Dandy Dozen" listing of projected impact athletes
at the NCAA Championships. Rudzinska is ranked third and Castle
tenth on the 800m list. Akron is the only school in the country
to have two athletes ranked in the women's 800m. Tomasz Smialek
is ranked tenth in the men's high jump (www.trackwire.com).
MAC
Website
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Rudzinska,
Sako, Smialek Named to Indoor All American Team
Beata
Rudzinska (800m - 3rd, 2:04.12), Natalie Sako (HJ - 10th, 5'
9.25") and Tomasz Smialek (HJ - 6th, 7' 2.5") were
all named All Americans on the basis of their performances at
the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Rudzinska
is now a three-time indoor All American. In 2003 she placed 5th
in the 800m and in 2004 she improved to 4th in that event. Sako
and Smialek earned their All American recognition in the first
appearance in an NCAA Championship.
NCAA
Indoor Championships Results
GoZips.com stories
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Four
Zips to Compete in NCAA Championships
Beata
Rudzinska (800m), Natalie Sako (HJ), Kevin Poest (PV) & Tomasz
Smialek (HJ) Qualify for NCAA Indoor Meet
NCAA
Championships Fields
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Virginia Tech Last
Chance Results
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Women
Win MAC Indoor Championships!
GoZips.com story
MAC-sports.com story
MAC Indoor Championships Results
CMU Newspaper
Very
Scary!
David
Pykare anchors Zips distance medley to victory at MAC Championships
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MAC
Indoor Championships Entry Lists
Women
| Men
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Men
& Women Capture All Ohio Crowns
GoZips.com
Story
All Ohio Results (corrected
2/13/05)
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Akron Open Results
corrected 2/7/05
Akron vs. Kent
State Results
Jan
29 Rubber City Open Results
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Tomasz
Smialek (7' 3.25", HJ) &
David Pykare (8:27.23, 3000m) Break School Records at Red Simmons
Invitational
Men and Women Victorious
in First Home Indoor Meet
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Alumnus
and Zip Track's Number One Supporter
Bob Gill Runs to First Field House Record
Pictured
Bob and Jacquie Gill after record run
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Morgan
Sulzener Qualifies for NCAA Cross Country Championships
Morgan
Sulzener raced to a 12th-place finish at the Great Lakes Regional
Championships to earn a berth in the field of the NCAA Cross
Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana on Monday, November
22. Sulzener, a junior, becomes the fourth Akron woman to qualify
for the national championships. Judy Ervin was the first Zip
to achieve this feat in 1992. Michelle Rizzo was a cross country
All American based on her finish at the 1999 NCAA Championships.
Adriana Zalucka placed 49th in the 2002 meet, also held in Terre
Haute. Sulzener is a two-time All MAC cross country honoree.
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Zips
Travel to Toledo for MAC Championships
The
Akron cross country teams will compete in the MAC Championships
hosted by the University of Toledo this Saturday at the OttawaPark
Golf Course. The men's 8-kilometer race starts at 11:00 am and
is followed by the women's 5-kilometer race at noon. The men's
team was picked to finish sixth in the pre-season MAC coaches'
poll after placing ninth in 2003. The women were picked second,
one place ahead of their third-place finish in 2003. In 1999
the Akron women won their only MAC cross country championship
behind Michelle Rizzo's individual title.
MAC
Host website
2003 Results
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Zips
Race Well at Penn State
Morgan
Sulzener led the women's team to an 8th-place finish at the Penn
State National Invitational, while David Howard rebounded from
All Ohio to lead the men. Beata Rudzinska, making her cross country
debut, Jennie Castle, and Brandi Schoeppner all crossed the finish
line within 19 seconds of Sulzener. The men's team spread from
1-6 was 53 seconds.
Penn
State National Invitational Results
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Sulzener
Named MAC Cross Country Runner of the Week
Morgan
Sulzener was the top MAC finisher at the competitive Notre Dame
Invitational, running a lifetime best for cross country, 17:39,
to earn this week's MAC Cross Country Runner of the Week. Sulzener
is the first Akron runner to receive this recognition in the
2004 season. It is the second time in her career she has been
honored by the conference office as its Runner of the Week.
GoZips.com story
Mid-American Conference Website
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Men
Runners-up at Central Collegiates. Sulzener Leads Women to Third.
The
men's cross country team followed up its victory in the Tommy
Evans Invitational with a strong second-place finish at the Central
Collegiate Championships behind MAC pre-season favorite Central
Michigan. The women, behind Morgan Sulzener's and Jennie Castle's
top-ten finishes captured third.
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Akron
Men Win Tommy Evans Invitational. Women Finish Second.
Placing
four runners in the top six the men's cross country team captured
their first Tommy Evans title since 1999. The women's team, led
by Brandi Schoeppner who placed second, finished second.
More
Tommy
Evans Invitational Results
Men | Women
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Upcoming
Events
Jan 13 - Akron
Quad
 @ Akron, OH
Christmas
Break PV Camp Info
Tuesday
Night
Pole Vault
Regional
Qualifiers
Jennie
Castle - 800, 1500
Deanna Caldwell - 100,
200
Corine
Gavin-Hall - 100
Crystal Goldsmith - PV
Brittany Hocker - 200, 400
Ashley Kaufman - JT
Amy Lavalley - HT
Liz
Mangen - DT
Lisa
Ravn - HJ
Beata Rudzinska - 800
Natalie
Sako - HJ
Jenna Strouse - SP, DT
Morgan
Sulzener - 3000
SC
4x
100 Relay
4x 400 Relay
Devin
Booker - 110H
Randall Hafner - SP, HT
Zach Helm - HT
Cadeau Kelley - LJ
Auston Papay - DT
John Russell - PV
Tomasz
Smialek - HJ
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