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Mitchler Wins
800-Meter National Championship
Jenna Mitchler posted
the best time of the season by any NCAA Division III women's track and
field runner in the 800-meter dash at the most perfect time.
 The junior middle
distance runner captured the event in 2:12.87 to win the NCAA Division
III championship on Saturday in Bloomington, Ill.
Mitchler's performance
beat out Jessica Minty of Colby (Maine), who posted a time of 2:13.38.
Mitchler's previous best entering the meet was 2:14.44 at last week's
WIAC championships. She ran a 2:14.80 in Friday's preliminaries.
She is the sixth
women's indoor national champion in UW-Stevens Point history and third
in the 800-meter run. Leah Juno won the event in 2001 and Jessie Bushman
was the champion in 1994.
Mitchler accounted for
10 of UW-Stevens Point's 18 team points as the Pointers placed eighth in
the meet.
She was also a member of the distance medley relay team that placed
fifth in 12:00.85. Other relay members were Marie Burrows, Ashleigh
Potuznik and Megan Craig. Julia Slabosheski and Amanda Nechuta both
placed in the shot put as Slabosheski was sixth in 44 feet, 5.5 inches
and Nechuta was eighth in 43 feet, 11.25 inches.
Mark LaLonde was second in
the men�s 5000-meter run at 14:36.67. Mitch Ellis also earned
All-American honors with an eighth place finish in the high jump at six
feet, 7.5 inches as the men finished 22nd overall.
UW-Oshkosh won its second
straight women�s national title and UW-La Crosse won its fifth straight
men�s championship.
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