TOWSON, Md. --- Moravian College junior distance runner Meg Brockett and sophomore jumper Melissa Cheong have been named the Landmark Conference Women's Track & Field Athletes of the Week for their performances this past weekend.
Brockett, who picked up her second indoor track Athlete of the Week honor of the season, won the 3,000-meter run at the Susquehanna University Crusader Challenge with a personal-best, ECAC qualifying and Landmark Conference record time of 10:15.31. Brockett's time is the third fastest in Moravian history, and it ranks her 27th on the Track & Field Results Reporting System list for Division III. The top 17 female student-athletes in each event will compete at the NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships in March.
"Meg was a little fatigued from a big training block the past month, so we backed off this week and she responded with a great race, setting the Landmark record while leading all 3,000 meters on Saturday and having nobody near her the last mile of the race," commented Head Coach Jesse Baumann. "She's hit ECAC marks in three events now which shows what a great season she's had to this point. She's running at a level we've never seen from her before, and running times that put her in the company of some of the best distance runners in the history of our program."
Cheong, who earned her second straight and third overall Landmark Field Athlete of the Week honor of 2015-16, hit the ECAC qualifying distance in the long jump at the Crusader Challenge as she placed fifth with a mark of 5.41 meters (17-9). Cheong also hit an ECAC qualifying time on the track as she ran 9.40 seconds in the preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles before finishing sixth in the event with a time of 9.47 seconds in the final.
"Mel had a great day all around as she bettered her previous PR in the hurdles twice and qualified for ECACs, but her best performance of the day was clearly her long jump," noted Baumann. "Some of the coaches were discussing how adding some variety to her events may have actually helped her long jump so there isn't so much pressure and focus on just the one event. We've spent a lot of time on her in the multis, and then Saturday she sets a six-centimeter lifetime PR. She even had another jump within a couple of inches of her previous PR, so clearly she's competing at a high level now. These last two weeks have been incredible for her, and it's still only the first week of February."
Cheong is slated to compete in the indoor pentathlon at the Kutztown University Mid-Week Multi on Wednesday, February 10 while the rest of the Greyhounds will return to action at the Monmouth University Invitational on Saturday, February 13.
