2005 Miracle Yearbook

Men's Track and Field The Cedarville University men's track team returned with much of their experienced talent and enjoyed yet another highly successful season. Led by head coach Jeff Bolender and his staff, who claimed the men's Coaching Staff of the Year award,the team totaled 106.2 points to finish second in the NCCAA indoor national meet. The Jackets then went on to place 18th as a team out of 86 schools at the NAIA national tournament. As of May 6th the team was also anticipating great things happening at both the NCCAA and NAIA outdoor nationals. The team realized early on the importance of working hard all year to train for their goals. No one knew this better than junior Joel Smith,who said,"Push- ing your body past its previous limits is a feeling that is really unlike anything else, because in many cases,ittakes a whole season of carefully planned train- ing to sometimes put just a few inches, or fractions of a second, on your old personal records." Smith had an outstanding junior season as he cleared 7ft. in the high jump during the outdoor season and 45-11.5 in the triple jump during the indoor season to set school records for the events. Other records broken during the season camefrom sophomore Jason Scott, who ran the 55m hurdles in 7.92seconds during the indoor season. The team was also pleasantly surprised by the performance of rookie newcomer Neil Hen- ning, who heaved a school record of 50 ft. in the shot put. Cedarville also had one of the deepest pole vaulting teams in the nation with six guys who cleared 13-6 or higlier. They were headed up by sophomore Jason Scott,the defending NAIA national champion,who cleared 15-7 during the regular outdoor season. Said Tim Beck,"This year's track team was awesome despite suffering sev- eral key injuries throughout the season. Almost everybody on the team set personal records this year. We also had many underclassmen come through with some great marks at the end of the season. It has been a lot of fun." 188 Athletics Jason Scott explained. 'I Just used the gifts that the Lord has given me to the best of my ability. I won NCCAA indoor in the hurdles and polevault I got third at NAIA indoor in the polevault. I did this all because the Lor was on my side."