{"id":86688,"date":"2024-05-23T03:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=86688"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:49:33","slug":"3-rockets-land-on-outdoor-track-and-field-all-mac-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_23_2024\/3-rockets-land-on-outdoor-track-and-field-all-mac-teams","title":{"rendered":"3 Rockets Land on Outdoor Track and Field All-MAC Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduate student\u00a0Laura Nicholson, freshman\u00a0Mercy Kinyanjui and freshman\u00a0Nora Hark\u00a0have each earned All-MAC honors, the Mid-American Conference office recently announced. Nicholson and\u00a0Kinyanjui were named First-Team All-MAC, while\u00a0Hark was a Second-Team All-MAC honoree.<\/p>\n

The three selections follow the trio capturing a combined five individual medals (four gold, one silver) and 48 points the MAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in DeKalb, Illinois.<\/p>\n

\"ToledoNicholson won the 1500m (4:23.32) and the 800m (2:07.83), running the events just two hours apart. She hit a personal-best time in the 800m, which ranks second in program history.<\/p>\n

Kinyanjui won the 10,000m in 34:29.19, pulling clear of her competition by 8.81 seconds with a final lap time of 1:06.64. She followed that performance with a 16:32.01 time in the 5000m, once again pulling ahead in a 1:12.97 final lap time to win by 4.90 seconds. Kinyanjui’s performance earned her the MAC Women’s Freshman Track Performer of the Year recognition, the first time Toledo has earned a Freshman of the Year recognition since\u00a0Emily Vining\u00a0(track) did so in 2021.<\/p>\n

Hark took the silver medal in the javelin with a long throw of 40.24m. This came on her sixth and final attempt and moved her up from fifth to second in the standings.<\/p>\n

Toledo is now focused on the NCAA East Prelims, which runs through Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

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Laura Nicholson,\u00a0Mercy Kinyanjui and Nora Hark combined for 48 points and five medals at the MAC Outdoor Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":86689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86691,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86688\/revisions\/86691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}