WESTERVILLE, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University women's indoor track and field team finished fifth at the All-Ohio Division III Indoor Championships hosted by Otterbein University in the Clements Recreation Center.

The fifth nationally ranked BW women's team was fifth of 17 teams with 64 points.  Mount Union won the meet with 98.5 points.

The BW women were led by two-time indoor All-American multi-event athlete Melanie Winters (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) as she won two events today and three overall events before an injury forced her out of the championships.   Winters won and successfully defended her title in the high jump, long jump and pentathlon, which she won last Sunday.  Winters won the high jump with meet-record mark of five feet and 7.75 inches,  long jump with a mark of 18'3" and the pentathlon with a school-record and meet-record 3,651 points.  She now holds four All-Ohio Championship records in the 60-meter hurdles (8.80 seconds), high jump (5'7.75"), long jump (19'4") and pentathlon (3,651).

In addition, senior indoor All-American thrower Kim Gallavan (Auburn Township/Kenston) won the the weight throw and was third in the shot put.  Gallavan had a school-record, meet-record and career-best mark of 60'10.5 in the weight throw and a mark of 44'2" in the shot put.  Gallavan's mark in the weight is the second best throw in Division III. Junior jumper Erin Kasper (Amherst/Marion Steele) was fourth in the high jump and eighth in the long jump.  Kasper had a mark of 5'3.75" in the high jump and a mark of 17'1.5" in the long jump. Junior hurdler/sprinter Lyndsey Armstrong (Ashtabula/Geneva) was sixth in the 60-meter hurdles in a career-best time of 9.41. Junior thrower Kasey Clouse (Norwalk/Western Reserve) was sixth in the weight throw with a mark of 53'.  Senior thrower Maggey Urban (Cleveland/St. Joseph Academy) was seventh in the weight throw with a career-best mark of 52'11". Junior jumper Rachel Holowecky (Amherst/Firelands) was seventh in the high jump and ninth in the pentathlon.  Holowecky had a season-best tying and career-best tying mark of 5'1" in the high jump and scored a career-high 2,930 points in the pentathlon last Sunday. Senior jumper Abby Snow (Massilon/Jackson) was eighth in the triple jump with a career-best mark of 35'0.25". Senior sprinter Kelsey Nemeth (Medina) was ninth in the 200-meter dash with a career-best time of 26.64 .  Nemeth did not qualify for the finals in the 60-meter dash but ran a career-best time of 8.12 in the prelims.

In relay action, the 4x200-meter team of Kelsey Nemeth, freshman sprinter Grace Nemeth (Medina), sophomore sprinter Carlynn Arthur (Danville) and Armstrong finished sixth in a season-best time of 1:49.39.

The Yellow Jackets are back in action on Friday, February 19 when they host the annual Greater Cleveland Championships on the Harrison Dillard Track inside the Lou Higgins Center Fieldhouse.   Field events  begin at 4 p.m. with running events slated to start at 5:30 p.m.