TOLEDO, OHIO --  Select Baldwin Wallace University individual performers competed on Friday, May 6 at the annual University of Toledo Rocket Invitational. The UT Invitational is just the first of three straight "last chance" meets for those performers hoping to qualify for the 2011 NCAA Division III National Championship Meet at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from May 26-28.  To date, BW's senior three-time All-American cross country and track standout Kim Chinn (Zanesville/ West Muskingum) is the only women's track and field national qualifier.

Chinn qualified in the 3000-meter steeplechase in an automatic qualifying time of 10:30.74, the 5000-meter run in 17:33.2 and in the 10,000-meter run in 37:15.78.  A year ago, she earned All-America honors (3000 meter steeplechase) when BW hosted the 2010 NCAA national meet at The George Finnie Stadium.

Sophomore Cristina Perrine (Middleburg Heights/ Midpark) had a career-best toss of 129'5" in the discus but fell two meters shy of the Div. III qualifying standard.

BW qualifying hopeful, senior All-American pentathlete Emily Oliver (Waynesburg/ Sandy Valley), is back in action this week when she travels to Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Wake Forest University for a meet from May 10-12 and then she will join others in Meadville, Pennsylvania and Allegheny College for the annual Gator Invitational on May 13-14. The final "last chance" meets take place from May 17-20 at either North Central College or Augustana College in the Chicago, Illinois area.

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