2009 Outdoor Track and Field National Championships
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2009 NJCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships
May 7-9, 2009
Proudly hosted by Alfred State College
Results of NJCAA National Championships
PDF of NJCAA National Championship Results
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Harper and Mohawk Valley Claim Track Titles
At Alfred State College's Pioneer Stadium, Harper College earned their third straight men's NJCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field championship while Mohawk Valley CC won the programs fourth women's national title.
The men's national champion was not determined until the final race of the three-day competition. Harper College came into the 4x400 relay tied with SUNY Delhi with 134 points. The Hawks earned a 2nd place finish to clinch the title. The College of DuPage earned 3rd with 114 points followed by Alfred State (101) and Erie CC (78.5).
On the women's side, Mohawk Valley used a total team effort to tally 140 points and race past 2nd place College of DuPage by 36.5 points. SUNY Delhi followed with 97 points, Gloucester County College was 4th with 77, and Harper College was 5th with 65.
During the competition five championship meet records were broken. Ryan Asta (Harper) set a new record in the shot put (16.83 m) and the hammer throw (52.93 m), Claudette Hetmeyer (Bronx CC) set a new standard in the 800 m (2:18.57), and Brent Titus (Erie CC) crushed the record in the discus (55.69 m). The Erie CC 4 x 400 relay team (Jared Mutka, Nick Jackson, Christopher Anderson, and Morris Taylor ran a 3:18.01 to set a new record to close out the competition.
Following the competition, Harper College's Ryan Asta and Vanessa Mensie were named the field athletes of the meet while Mohawk Valley CC's Heather Vroman and SUNY Delhi's Chris Burke were named the track athletes of the meet. Middlesex CC's Bob Terelle and Harper College's Renee Zellner was named the coaches association coaches of the year and Erie CC's Tim Miller was named assistant coach of the year.
The 2009 national championship featured nearly 350 athletes representing 25 teams.
