Women’s Track & Field Ready to Take on National Field

BROOKINGS, SD. - The MVNU Women's Track and Field team will be competing at the 43rd annual Women's Indoor Track & Field National Championship. The event will take place March 2-4 at the Sanford Jackrabbit Athletic Complex.

Upcoming Performers

The relay of Ellyn Coe, Lyssi Snouffer, Jocelyn Dornbirer, and Ashley Burgess will be competing in the 3200m relay prelims on March 2 at 4:30pm. The team hit the NAIA A standard and is currently seeded fifth with a time of 9:26.23. Finals for the event will take place on March 3 at 6:20pm.

Brooke Holloway will be competing in the Pole Vault finals on March 3 at 4:00pm. Holloway hit the NAIA A standard after clearing a height of 3.63m. The freshman is currently seeded 12th overall going into the event.

Coach Gallion's Thoughts

"We are blessed with this opportunity to go and compete at NAIA indoor nationals. This is an extremely young women's team and the young ladies that are headed out to South Dakota worked their tails off to get to this point. The 4x8 team of Ashley Burgess, Jocelyn Dornbirer, Lyssi Snouffer, and Ellyn Coe are all underclassmen and came together in a unique way to make this trip possible. I'm excited for them to get this chance to compete and represent our university. Brooke Holloway represents another underclassman, freshman, who is coming off a stellar conference meet and how special it is for her to go to nationals in her first year. We have learned a lot about ourselves in the past couple weeks and I know they will rise to the occasion. Ultimately I'm proud of the way these ladies represent Christ and I look forward to the growth that we can have on this trip."

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony for the competition will take place on March 4th at 5:30pm, concluding the 2022-2023 Indoor Track and Field Season.

Mount Vernon Nazarene University is a private, four-year, intentionally Christian teaching university for traditional age students, graduate students, and working adults. With a 327-acre main campus in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and several convenient Graduate and Professional Studies locations throughout the state, MVNU emphasizes academic excellence, spiritual growth, and service to community and church. MVNU offers an affordable education to more than 2,200 students from 31 states and 22 countries/U.S. territories.