INDIANAPOLIS, IND. -- Baldwin Wallace University Yellow Jacket indoor track and field student-athlete Kevin Phipps have qualified for the 2011 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field National Championship Meet this Friday and Saturday, March 11-12 at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. The trio each will be looking to garner NCAA Division III All-America acclaim (top eight in each event).
Kevin Phipps (Patsakala/ Watkins Memorial) owns school records in his specialty events, has earned Ohio Athletic Conference Athlete of the Week honors this winter and has a better than 3.0 grade point average in the classroom.
Phipps, the school-record holder in the shot put and 35-pound weight throw, will compete in each event. He will compete in the weight throw on Friday at 3:30 p.m. and in the shot put on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
He earned All-American accolades indoors last winter with a seventh place finish in the weight throw. He has twice earned All-America honors in the outdoor discus (2009 and 2010) and once in the outdoor hammer (2010). Phipps is the 2011 Ohio Athletic Conference Bud Yoest Co-Most Outstanding Field Event Athlete. Last fall, Phipps earned his third varsity letter, served as a team quad captain and helped to lead the football team to a 7-3 overall record. This winter, Phipps helped the men's indoor track team record three team titles in five scored meet and a 42-4 overall record. In the classroom, Phipps maintains a 3.0 grade average in exercise science.
Individually, Phipps owns the school and OAC-record in the weight throw with a toss of 62-feet and 3.25 inches and owns the school-record in the shot put with a toss of 56"1'. Entering the national meet, he is ranked in a tie for third in the shot put and eighth in the weight throw.
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