1996 Miracle Yearbook

Right: Jill Zenner easily clears the high jump bar during an indoor track meet. Left: Tiff Shaw shows that throwing the hammer is not just a guy thing. Below: Wow! He is way up there! He clears the pole with the greatest of ease. There is a pattern developing in Cedarville College track and field and the 1996 season wasno excep- tion. The Lady Jackets won the National Christian College Athletic Association championship for the third straightyear,theYellowJacket men finished second in the NCCAA for the fifth straight time,and both squads were the Mid-Ohio Confer- ence runner-up in their respective divisions for the second consecu- tive year. The individual accom- plishments totalled five NAIA All- Americans, 18 NCCAA All-Ameri- cans,eightAll-AmericaScholar-Ath- letes, and ten All-MOC performers. Additionally, Paul Orchard was voted the women's Coach of the Year by both the MOCand NCCAA. Cedarville hosted the NCCAA meet and the Lady Jackets lapped thefield with 190 pointswhichwas twice the total of the runner-up. Julianne Pletcher set meet records in winning the 3,000 and 5,000 meter runs while Joy Beider won the 100 meter hurdles, high jump, and waspartofthevictorious4x400meter relay squad. Other All-Americans wereJillBruin,MichelleBurson,Laura Glessner, Sylene Graves,Sarah Jack- son, Courtney Kilburn, Lindsay Mitchell, Christy Taylor, and Debbie Trimble. PletcherwaspresentedtheWheeler Award as the Athlete of the Year in NCCAA women'strack and field. She wastwicean NAIA All-American(top six finishers) during the season plac- ingsecondin theindoor 5,000 meter run and fifth in the outdoor 10,000. Jill Zenner was also an NAIA All- American by finishing second in the 3,000 meter racewalk. The Yellow Jacket men finished just 4.5 points behind defending champion Taylor University in the NCCAA meet. Joe Cunningham was named the Wheeler Award recipient in the men's division. He was the pole vaultchampionin both theMOC and the NCCAA. Linton Ellis wonthe NCCAA 100 and 200 meter dashes and was part ofthe winning4x 100 meter relay team with Lee Reinhard, Bobby Polack,and Chris Melkonian thatset a school record of 42.25 seconds. Other NCCAA All-Americans were Dan Hudson and Jon McGinnis. Chad Eder was the NAIA cham- pion in the 5,000 meter racewalk. He had previously qualified for the U.S.OlympicTrialsinthe 20K walk. Chris Melkonian earned NAIA In- doorAll-Americahonorsin the pole vault by placing sixth. Michelle Burson, Julianne Pletcher, and Jill Zenner were All- America Scholar Athletes in both theNAIAandNCCAA.OtherNCCAA All-America Scholar-Athletes were Laura Glessner, Kara Malone, Tif- fany Shaw, Doug Amundson, and Joe Cunningham. Mark Womack,Sports Information Director FIELD AND TRACK sports