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updated 04/14/2007

Schipper Win Leads Six Top 10 Performances at Little State

Ryan Schipper - 2007 Little State Pole Vault Champion

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology track and field teams recorded six top 10 performances, highlighted by one victory, at the 2007 Little State Track and Field Championships.

Senior Ryan Schipper (Fort Wayne/ Bishop Dwenger) earned his second career Little State championship with a win in the pole vault. Schipper cleared 15' 11 3/4" to become Rose-Hulman's first two-time Little State champion since his brother Andrew won three Little State titles from 2000-03.

Junior Thomas Reives (Indianapolis/Arsenal Tech) provided depth with a third-place performance in the high jump. Reives cleared a height of 6' 2" in the effort.

Junior Matt Repking (Effingham, Ill./ Teutopolis) and freshman Michael Burris (Terre Haute/North) rounded out the top 10 performances on the men's side. Repking finished ninth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with the third-best time in school history, a career best effort of 9:36.98. Burris placed ninth in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 15.98.

Matt Repking ran the third-best time in school history in the 3,000-meter steeplechase for the Engineers.

Senior Kathleen Stynes (Okemos, Mich.) paced the women's effort with two top 10 performances. Stynes finished seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 32' 5", the second-best effort in school history, and added a 10th in the high jump (4' 10 1/4").

Other top finishers for the women's squad included senior Mandy Hecker (Georgetown/N. Harrison) with an 11th place finish in the 800-meter run in 2:24.50.

Engineers placing 12th on the women's side included junior Katy Evert (Huntley, Ill.) in the 400-meter hurdles (1:09.64), junior Rachel Krasich (Westfield) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (12:26.59) and junior Janel Belton (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway West) in the discus throw (110' 3").

Rose-Hulman returns to action at the Engineer Twilight Invitational on Friday evening at Cook Stadium. Field events begin at 5 p.m., with track events commencing at 6.