Cedarville Magazine Spring 2020

SPORTS SPORTS INFORMATION TEAM HONORED BY G-MAC Cedarville University’s sports information team of Mark Womack ’82, Sports Information Director, and Jim Clark ’75, Assistant Sports Information Director, has been honored with the inaugural Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Sports Information Director (SID) Staff of the Year Award. Womack and Clark have led Cedarville’s sports information effort since the University joined the G-MAC in 2012. Womack is the University's first full-time sports information director, having served in that role for 37 years. He also played basketball and golf as a dual-sport student-athlete. Clark has been at Cedarville for 24 years, since 1996, and was a member of the Yellow Jacket volleyball coaching staff for 10 years with his wife, Teresa (Cooper) ’75. He became the full- time assistant sports information director in 2002. “To be selected for the first award by our colleagues, it is an honor,” Womack said. “We enjoy covering our student-athletes, and it's important for us to treat all of our teams as equally as possible and give them what they deserve. It is important for us to represent Cedarville, the G-MAC, and Division II the best we can.” MORE INFO To watch Yellow Jackets home games via livestreaming or to read more athletics stories, visit yellowjackets.cedarville.edu. CROSS COUNTRY RUNS TO THE TOP The Cedarville University cross country teams worked through an abbreviated 2020 schedule with stellar efforts despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the men's and women's squads finished first at multiple meets heading into this year’s G-MAC Championship on October 24 in Tiffin, Ohio. Prior to the G-MAC, the men had blazed to first place finishes at both the Taylor Invitational and the Rio Grande RedStorm Classic. Isaiah Kelly ’23, a two-time G-MAC Athlete of the Week this fall, paced the squad at both meets. The women were second behind host Hillsdale at the Hillsdale Invitational, then placed first at both the Cedarville Open and the Louisville Classic. Alayna Ackley ’23, also a G-MAC Athlete of the Week selection, led the squad at Hillsdale and Cedarville, while Rachel Sweeney ’21 paced the team at Louisville. Isaiah Kelly ’23 Alayna Ackley ’23 Rachel Sweeney ’21 Cedarville Magazine | 37