High Point Wins 2023 Big South Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship

High Point Wins 2023 Big South Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship

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ROCK HILL, S.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – High Point won two events and compiled 14 podium finishes Friday to win the 2023 Big South Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championship title with a final total of 249 points for the program’s third consecutive crown.  Campbell finished second with 170 points, while Charleston Southern was third with 157 points.
 
The Panthers tallied 160 team points on Friday, led by Sydney Koker’s win in the high jump and Dae’Nitra Hester’s victory in the 400m.  HPU also medaled in the javelin, discus, 1,500m, 100m Hurdles, 400m, 800m, 400m Hurdles, 5,000m and 4x400m Relay.  In other action, Campbell’s Dorcus Ewoi won the 800m (2:07.32) and 1,500 (Meet record time of 4:26.69) for the second consecutive year, while teammate Chastity Pickett completed the sweep of the hurdle events with a winning time of 13.34 in the 100mH and 57.28 in the 400mH.  Charleston Southern’s won the 4x100m Relay in a Meet record time of 44.73, as well as the 4x400m Relay, while Radford’s Chloe Wellings took home the 5,000m run in 16:56.20 -- becoming Radford’s first 5,000m champion since 2001.
 
Charleston Southern’s Chloe Greene accumulated 22 points to earn her the Most Valuable Athlete award, as she won the heptathlon and javelin, while earning seventh-place points in the long jump.
 
CSU’s Zemaya Carson claimed Freshman of the Year honors for having the most accumulated points by a freshman with 21, as she was runner-up in the shot put and discus, in addition to fourth in the hammer throw.  High Point’s Sydney Horn was tabbed Most Outstanding Performer based on having the highest ranking performance nationally at the meet using current TFFRS marks, as her pole vault winning height of 4.26m ranks 22nd-best in the country.  Campbell Head Coach Virgil Givens was voted Coach of the Year by the league coaches at the conclusion of the meet, while UNC Asheville’s Claudia Prieto was voted Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the league’s sports information directors.
 
Women’s Final Results
  1. High Point – 249
  2. Campbell – 170
  3. Charleston Southern - 157
  4. Radford – 64
  5. USC Upstate – 57
  6. UNC Asheville – 56
  7. Winthrop – 36
  8. Gardner-Webb – 27
Women's Most Valuable Athlete
Chloe Greene, Charleston Southern
 
Women’s Outstanding Performer
Sydney Horn, High Point
 
Women’s Freshman of the Year
Zemaya Carson, Charleston Southern
 
Women’s Coach of the Year
Virgil Givens, Campbell
 
Women’s All-Academic Team
Samantha Ennis, Sr., Campbell
Chloe Greene, Soph., Charleston Southern
Amy Prugh, Sr., Gardner-Webb
Letizia Marsico, Jr., High Point
Austin Swallow, Jr., Radford
Claudia Prieto, Gr., UNC Asheville
Heaven Allen, Jr., USC Upstate
Libby Roush, Sr., Winthrop
 
Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Claudia Prieto, Gr., UNC Asheville
 
Women’s Individual Champions – Day 3
High Jump – Sydney Koker, High Point
Javelin – Chloe Greene, Charleston Southern
4x100m Relay – Charleston Southern
1,500m – Dorcus Ewoi, Campbell
100m Hurdles – Chastity Pickett, Campbell
400m – Dae’Nitra Hester, High Point
Discus – Patience Marshall, Campbell
100m – Destiny Wallace, Charleston Southern
800m – Dorcus Ewoi, Campbell
400m Hurdles – Chastity Pickett, Campbell
200m – Jaidyn Ramsey, Campbell
5,000m – Chloe Wellings, Radford
4x400m Relay – Charleston Southern
 
Women’s All-Conference Performers – Day 3
High Jump
  1. Sydney Koker, High Point
  2. Izzy Geraci, USC Upstate
  3. Aliyah Eugene, Gardner-Webb
 Javelin
  1. Chloe Greene, Charleston Southern
  2. Brianna Moore, UNC Asheville
  3. Kelly Chaballa, High Point
 4x100m Relay
  1. Charleston Southern
  2. Campbell
  3. USC Upstate
 1,500m
  1. Dorcus Ewoi, Campbell
  2. Olive Allen, High Point
  3. Amy Prugh, Gardner-Webb
 100m Hurdles
  1. Chastity Pickett, Campbell
  2. Lindsay Cooper, High Point
  3. Chaneal Harris, Charleston Southern
 400m
  1. Dae’Nitra Hester, High Point
  2. Dylann Core, Charleston Southern
  3. Marissa Blakely, High Point
 Discus
  1. Patience Marshall, Campbell
  2. Zemaya Carson, Charleston Southern
  3. Letizia Marsico, High Point
 100m
  1. Destiny Wallace, Charleston Southern
  2. Jaidyn Ramsey, Campbell
  3. Lauryn James, Charleston Southern
 800m
  1. Dorcus Ewoi, Campbell
  2. Nikki Frail, High Point
  3. Camryn Harper, High Point
 400m Hurdles
  1. Chastity Pickett, Campbell
  2. Lindsay Cooper, High Point
  3. Ebba Ahman, High Point
 200m
  1. Jaidyn Ramsey, Campbell
  2. Brianna Clayton, USC Upstate
  3. Lauryn James, Charleston Southern
 5,000m
  1. Chloe Wellings, Radford
  2. Lindsey Ickes, High Point
  3. Olive Allen, High Point
 4x400m Relay
  1. Charleston Southern
  2. High Point
  3. Campbell