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Cazzola Wins Three Individual Titles At WIAC Championship

Cazzola Wins Three Individual Titles At WIAC Championship

Results

Christy Cazzola (Jr. • Kaukauna) won three races and ran on a first-place relay team at the WIAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship held Friday and Saturday (May 4-5) in La Crosse.

Cazzola was a triple-winner on the second day of competition. She won the 800 and 1,500-meter runs for the third straight year with times of 2:09.76 and 4:44.61, respectively. Cazzola is the third individual in WIAC history to win three consecutive titles in the 1,500-meter run and the fourth person in the 800-meter run.

Cazzola completed her activity on the final day by winning the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:03.56. She became just the second UW-Oshkosh individual to win the event since 1998.

In the 3,200-meter relay, Cazzola and teammates McKenzie Kelly (Sr. • New Richmond), Mariah McMullen (Jr. • Byron, Ill.) and Kristin Stockheimer (Sr. • West Salem) captured the event with a time of 9:21.05.

UW-Oshkosh scored 165.5 points, including 20 in the shot put and 19 in the 5,000-meter run, to finish second in the team standings for the fourth time in five years. The Titans have won the meet 11 times, including a victory in 2011.

UW-La Crosse compiled 246.5 points to win its second straight title and 28th overall. UW-Eau Claire finished third in the nine-team meet with 120.5 points, UW-Whitewater fourth with 106.5, UW-River Falls and UW-Stout fifth with 58, UW-Stevens Point seventh with 52, UW-Platteville eighth with 36 and UW-Superior ninth with 14.

Joining Cazzola on the first-place podium were UW-Oshkosh's Kasey Ederer (Fr. • Kaukauna), Samantha Loew (Sr. • Burnett) and Abby Martin (Jr. • Chilton).

Ederer won the high jump with a leap of 5-3 3/4, while Loew took first place in the hammer throw and Martin in the shot put with distances of 168-4 and 44-9 1/2, respectively. Martin also finished seventh in the hammer throw with a mark of 146-4. UW-Oshkosh athletes have won the hammer throw 11 consecutive years and the shot put five straight years. Ederer is the Titans' first high jump champion since 2000.

Kelly added a pair of top-four finishes by placing second in the 1,500-meter and fourth in the 5,000-meter runs with times of 4:44.95 and 18:22.45, respectively.

Melanie Brickner (So. • Marathon) took second place in the shot put with a distance of 42-7 1/2 and third in the hammer throw with a measurement of 154-9, while Heather Clankie (Fr. • Brodhead) finished second in the discus with a mark of 132-0 and seventh in the shot put with a throw of 40-6.

Amanda Shober (So. • Sussex) contributed a third-place skip of 37-6 1/2 in the triple and a seventh-place leap of 16-4 1/4 in the long jumps. She also ran with Samantha Blue (So. • Kimberly), Cassandra Hemmen (So. • Appleton) and Alesha Malueg to post a fourth-place time of 49.15 in the 400-meter relay.

Allie DeBaker (Sr. • Green Bay) placed fourth in the 10,000- and eighth in the 5,000-meter runs with times of 38:35.55 and 18:31.81, respectively. Tessa Thurs (Fr. • Edgar) finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.14 while running on the fourth-place 1,600-meter relay team that recorded a time of 3:54.63. Other members of that relay squad were Becklyn Hunter (Fr. • Winnebago, Ill.), Stephanie Jahn (Jr. • Deerfield) and Kylee Verhasselt (So. • Freedom).

UW-Oshkosh had three fifth-place efforts as Blue leaped 17-4 in the long jump, Hemmen skipped 36-2 3/4 in the triple jump and Verhasselt registered a time of 2:13.76 in the 800-meter run.

Sixth-place efforts went to the Titans' Malueg, Leah Rendflesh and Stefanie Weber. Malueg and Rendflesh posted times of 12.40 in the 100-meter dash and 18:27.96 in the 5,000-meter run, respectively, while Weber soared to a height of 10-8 3/4 in the pole vault.

The Titans concluded their scoring with the eighth-place efforts of Jahn in the 400-meter dash and Megan Geldernick (Fr. • Wauconda, Ill.) in the 100-meter hurdles. Jahn finished with a time of 58.70 and Geldernick with a mark of 15.26.

UW-Oshkosh athletes will compete in a variety of last chance meets before participating at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship on May 23-25 in La Crosse.