BEREA, Ohio -- Baldwin Wallace University All-American pentathlete Melanie Winters (Stow/ Stow-Munroe Falls) has been named as the Ohio Athletic Conference Field Athlete of the Week. 

Winters has now won the OAC indoor track weekly honor for the fourth consecutive week and for the sixth time in her illustrious career.  

Last Saturday at Otterbein University, she set two All-Ohio Division III Championships Meet records (three total), set two BW school records and won four individual events. She won the 60-meter dash, 60-meter hurdles, long jump and high jump.

Winters won the long jump with a NCAA Division III leading, All-Ohio meet record and school-record leap of 19 feet and four inches, the 60-meter hurdles in an All-Ohio meet record and school-record time of of 8:80 seconds, which is the fifth fastest time in Division II, the 60-meter dash in a time of 7.87, which is the 24th fastest time in Division II and the the high jump with a leap of 5' 4.25."

She won the All-Ohio Division III pentathlon title on February 8 hosted by Denison University in the Mitchell Fieldhouse with an All-Ohio Meet, school-record and NCAA Division III leading 3,589 points. Winters captured three individual events, including the 60-meter hurdles in 8.99 seconds, high jump with an indoor career-best of 5'6", which is the eighth highest leap in NCAA and the long jump with a leap of 18'5.25". 

BW is back in action on Friday, February 20 when it hosts the Greater Cleveland Colleges Championships on the Harrison Dillard Track inside the Lou Higgins Center Fieldhouse at 4 p.m. The Yellow Jackets then travel to Kent on Saturday, February 21 to compete in the Kent State University Tune-Up Meet at 11 a.m.