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Thomas Reives soared to HCAC titles in the long jump
and triple jump to earn Field Athlete of the Year honors. |
TERRE
HAUTE, IND. –
The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology track and field team earned
five all-conference awards and two special honors from the Heartland
Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Senior
Thomas Reives (Indianapolis/ Arsenal Tech) was named the HCAC
Field Athlete of the Year, while Larry Cole earned league
Men's Coach of the Year accolades after leading the squad to its
first league title since 1989.
Reives
won league championships in both the long jump and triple jump to
lead Rose-Hulman's overall effort. He set a league record with
a triple jump leap of 46' 6" that stands third in the college's
all-time record book. Reives also won the long jump with a
leap of 22' 5 3/4".
In
addition, Reives added fourth place finishes in the high jump (6' 5
1/2") and the 100-meter dash (11.32). He closed the day by
serving as a member of the 4-x-100 meter relay team that placed
second.
Cole
earned the third Conference Coach of the Year honor in his career.
He previously won a pair of Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the
Year awards at Ohio Northern University. The Engineer team
snapped a 13-year streak of conference titles by Anderson University
and earned its first conference title in nearly 20 years with their
team effort at the league championships.
Other
all-conference honorees included event champions Janel Belton
(St. Louis, Mo./Parkway North), Michael Burris (Terre
Haute/North), Rachel Krasich (Westfield) and Matt Repking
(Effingham, Ill./Teutopolis).
Belton
captured the women's shot put title with a school record toss of 40'
11 3/4" and placed second in the discus with a mark of 126' 5".
Burris won the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.13 seconds.
Krasich won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:55.82 and placed
second in the 5,000 meters with a school record time of 18:47.66.
Repking rounded out the winners by earning nearly a 20-second win in
the 3,000-steeplechase in a time of 9:38.54. |
