WAVERLY, Iowa – Senior outdoor All-American multi-event athlete Melanie Winters (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) won the NCAA Division III title in the 100-meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash as the Baldwin Wallace University women's outdoor track and field team was the national runner-up at the the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Wartburg College inside the Walston-Hoover Stadium.
BW, who was the 2016 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field National Champion, finished in second place with 41 points and just one point behind Division III champion Illinois Wesleyan University's 42 points. The Yellow Jackets were second of 85 teams.
Winters, who was the Division III national indoor champion in the long jump, won the the 100-meter hurdles with the sixth fastest time in NCAA Division III history of 13.78 seconds. The time was also the BW-record and Walston-Hoover Stadium record time. She broke her own record that she had set in the prelims yesterday. Winters won the 200-meter dash in a time of 24.67 seconds to earn her eighth career outdoor All-American accolade. Also this weekend, she was the runner-up in the long jump (19'8.75"), 13th in the high jump (5'3.75") and just missed qualifying for the finals of the 100-meter dash (a career-best 12.05 seconds).
Overall. Winters ends the most celebrated career of any Yellow Jacket female student-athlete with three national titles and 13 total (indoors and outdoors) Division III All-America awards. In addition to her excellence on the track, Winters carries a 3.5 grade average in English and is one of four Yellow Jackets who appear on the 2016 CoSIDA Division III Academic All-America national ballot.
In addition, senior All-American thrower Kim Gallavan (Auburn Township/Kenston) earned her third career outdoor and fifth overall Division III All-American honor as she placed seventh in the hammer throw with a mark of 177'8". Also this weekend, Gallavan won the Division III shot put title on Friday and placed 16th in the discus on Thursday. She had a clean-sweep of the shot put titles after winning the 2016 indoor national crown in March.
Senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference thrower Maggey Urban (Cleveland/ St. Joseph Academy) claimed her first career outdoor All-American accolade as she placed eighth in the hammer throw with a mark of 175'8".
