DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, May 12-13 — Way back in May of ’15, soph Madison Wiltrout raised the national HS Record in the javelin to 185-8 (56.60). Unfortunately, just a few weeks later she had to have surgery on her throwing elbow, leading her to report, “The doctors said I can be better than ever.”
The docs were right, but nobody imagined it would take the better part of a decade to come true. Lightning finally struck at this year’s Tom Jones Memorial in April as Wiltrout reached 187-4 (57.11) to take over the yearly collegiate lead.
She got only better at the ACC Championships. Now a 22-year-old grad student (with junior standing eligibility-wise) she first PRed in round 4 at 188-9 (57.55) then finished off with a 196-11 (60.03) heave that made her No. 11 American ever and No. 9 collegian.
The meet standout on the track was Katelyn Tuohy, whose year-leading 4:06.84 in the 1500 moved her to No. 7 on the all-time collegiate list. Some 2 hours later she came back in the 5000, her 15:50.02 giving her 2nd behind teammate Samantha Bush (14:56.20).
Miami beat host Duke 108–100.5 for the team title. Said Hurricane coach Amy Deem, “I’m proud of all of our teams, but especially proud of this group… they just really, really wanted it. We had to work really hard to get to this point. I don’t think anybody coming into the championships, except us, expected us to do this. From the first day to the end, they just kept fighting and kept fighting. I’m just very, very proud of this group.”
ACC WOMEN’S RESULTS
(5/12—10K, PV, LJ, HT, JT; 5/13—St, TJ, SP, Hept)
Teams: 1. Miami 108; 2. Duke 100½; 3. Florida State 99; 4. NC State 91; 5. Clemson 67; 6. Louisville 64; 7. Virginia 54¼; 8. Virginia Tech 54; 9. North Carolina 53¼; 10. Notre Dame 50; 11. Georgia Tech 31; 12. Wake Forest 17; 13. Pitt 11; 14. Boston College 10; 15. Syracuse 9.
100(0.9): 1. Edidiong Odiong’ (FlSt-Ngr) 11.05; 2. **Jacious Sears (Mia) 11.28; 3. Alfreda Steele (Mia) 11.28; 4. *Kiara Grant’ (Clem-Jam) 11.31.
200(1.0): 1. Odiong’ 22.64; 2. Steele 23.01; 3. *Ockera Myrie’ (Clem-Jam) 23.05; 4. **Moriah Oliveira (Mia) 23.19.
400: 1. Oliveira 51.85; 2. *Jada Griffin (NCSt) 52.27; 3. **Kennedy Brace (Mia) 53.19.
800: 1. Ruby Stauber (FlSt) 2:03.68; 2. *Katherine Mitchell (BC) 2:04.09; 3. Kayla Johnson (Mia) 2:04.90; 4. *Kaitlin Ryan (NDm) 2:05.66.
1500: 1. **Katelyn Tuohy (NCSt) 4:06.84 (CL) (7, 7 C; 4, 4 AmC);
2. Maudie Skyring’ (FlSt-Aus) 4:09.83; 3. Anna Vess (NCSt) 4:12.04; 4. ***Mia Barnett (Va) 4:12.23; 5. ***Carlee Hansen (NC) 4:15.75.
St: 1. **Olivia Markezich (NDm) 9:45.31 (CL);
2. *Emily Cole (Duke) 9:48.20; 3. Annie Boos (Syr) 9:56.28; 4. **Sasha Neglia (NC) 10:03.06; 5. **Helena Lindsay (Va) 10:05.68.
5000: 1. *Samantha Bush (NCSt) 15:46.20; 2. Tuohy 15:50.02; 3. Nicole Fegans (GaT) 15:53.42; 4. Michaela Reinhart (Duke) 15:54.87.
10,000: 1. *Lauren Ryan’ (FlSt-Aus) 32:56.53; 2. Reinhart 33:22.99; 3. Hannah Steelman (NCSt) 33:28.85; 4. **Mariah Howlett (NCSt) 33:45.29.
100H(0.3): 1. Trishauna Hemmings’ (Clem-Jam) 13.00; 2. *Taylor Grimes (GaT) 13.37; 3. Erin Marsh (Duke) 13.49; 4. **Antoinette Van der Merwe’ (Clem-SA) 13.49.
400H: 1. Lauren Hoffman (Duke) 56.00; 2. *Katie Martin (Louis) 57.57; 3. **Lydia Troupe (GaT) 58.90; 4. Breanna Phillips (Pitt) 58.96.
4 x 100: 1. Florida State 43.16 (Odiong’, Toombs, Seymour, Seymour); 2. Clemson 43.34; 3. Duke 44.05; 4. Miami 44.38.
4 x 400: 1. Duke 3:33.88 (King, Crean, McGinnis, Hoffman);
2. Clemson 3:35.72; 3. North Carolina 3:39.73; 4. Pitt 3:40.71; 5. Florida State 3:41.47.
Field Events
HJ: 1. *Emily Scott (Louis) 5-11½ (1.82); 2. **Shanty Papakosta’ (GaT-Gre) 5-10½ (1.79); 3. **Madison Schmidt (NDm) 5-10½.
PV: 1. Gabriela Leon (Louis) 14-9 (4.50); 2. ***Julia Fixsen (VaT) 14-¾ (4.29); 3. *Aliyah Welter (Louis) 13-9 (4.19); 4. Rachel Baxter (VaT) 13-9.
LJ: 1. **Synclair Savage (Louis) 21-10w (6.65); 2. Anna Keefer (NC) 21-0w (6.40); 3. *Issy Wakefield’ (Duke-GB) 20-4¼ (6.20).
TJ: 1. Harleigh White (Clem) 42-9¾ (13.05); 2. **Ashley Moore (Mia) 41-8½ (12.71); 3. Michelle Cobb (NCSt) 41-5 (12.62).
SP: 1. ***Maria Deaviz’ (Va-Bra) 56-½ (17.08); 2. *Essence Henderson (VaT) 55-11¾ (17.06); 3. Debbie Ajagbe (Mia) 54-3¼ (16.54); 4. *Hannah Hall (Mia) 54-2½ (16.52).
DT: 1. Ajagbe 179-11 (54.85); 2. **Amani Heaven (FlSt) 178-6 (54.41); 3. *Ashley Anumba (Va) 175-9 (53.58); 4. Henderson 175-6 (53.50).
HT: 1. Jillian Shippee (NC) 222-9 (67.91); 2. Rachel Tanczos (NDm) 216-1 (65.87); 3. **Sara Killinen’ (VaT-Fin) 212-6 (64.79); 4. Ajagbe 207-9 (63.32).
JT: 1. *Madison Wiltrout (NC) 196-11 (60.03) (11, x A; 9, x C; 6, x AmC) (173-5, f, 175-9, 188-9 PR [CL], 178-7, 196-11) (52.87, f, 53.57, 57.55, 54.45, 60.03);
2. Sara Zabarino’ (FlSt-Ita) 182-7 (55.66); 3. Kelechi Nwanaga’ (FlSt-Ngr) 170-11 (52.10); 4. Gabrielle Diederich (NDm) 170-3 (51.89); 5. Rachel Kern (WF) 170-1 (51.85).
Hept(5/12-13): 1. Erin Marsh (Duke) 5946; 2. *Timara Chapman (NCSt) 5733; 3. *Anna Bush’ (WF-Aus) 5675;
4. Zoe Hughes’ (Duke-GB) 5597; 5. **Alaina Brady (NDm) 5574. ◻︎