The Omnibus

Issue date: 4/25/08 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Kelly Flowers Sophomore Michael McCampbell placed 12th in his first 10,000-meter run this year. McCampbell and the rest of the track and field team endured some less than ideal circumstances this weekend at the Kansas Relays.

To say that the Kansas Relays provided the Southwest Baptist track and field team with an interesting weekend would be an understatement.
The meet started uneventful enough, outside of being delayed by local thunderstorms, as freshman Kelsi Chowning and senior Alyssa Maggart teamed up to place 5th and 6th in the unseeded section of the women's 800-meter run.
The men's 800 followed and sophomore Shawn Etzenhouser led the way for the 'Cats with a 12th place finish (one minute, 54.84 seconds). Also running well for SBU was freshman Nathaniel Rogers who placed 15th in 1:56.1.
In the men's 1,500-meter run sophomore Jeremy Glassmaker continued his strong outdoor season with by finish 5th (three minutes, 57.69 seconds).
It was after the 1,500 that the weekend started to really get interesting. The temperature, which was not warm to begin with, began to drop and the rain began to fall. So it was at around 10 p.m., that in cold and rainy conditions, sophomores Courtney Ayers, Kristen Colon, Erica Whitfield, Michael McCampbell and Cameron Ayers took to the track for the 10,000-meter run.
The women went first, and Ayers just barely missed breaking another SBU record as she placed 6th in 38 minutes, 43.85 seconds.
In the men's race, McCampbell, in his first attempt at the 10,000, took 13th with a time of 32:14.18.
With the clock past 11 p.m., day one was done, and the team headed to the hotel for the night.
On day two, the SBU athletes were able to turn in a few solid performances. Sophomore Jennifer Gillespie finished 12th in the 400-meter hurdles by just breaking the 65-second mark (64.99). Then the women's distance medley relay team of Maggart, freshman Kassidy Porter, sophomore Mallory Roth and Chowning teamed up to take 5th (12 minutes, 52.15 seconds).
Following the women's DMR team was the men's team of Etzenhouser, Rogers, junior Vince Tichenor and Glassmaker. Without the usual aide of junior Michael Pierce (who was competing the in the invitation mile the next day) the Bearcat team still managed to clip the school record by just over a second (10:18.38) en route a fourth place finish.

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