Track: Stechschulte Named to All-America Team
March 14, 2007 02:37 PM | General
March 14, 2007
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Abbie Stechschulte, a senior multi-event athlete on West Virginia University’s track and field team, has been named to the 2007 Division I Indoor Track and Field All-America Team.
Stechschulte, the lone Mountaineer at last weekend’s NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championship in Fayetteville, Ark., took sixth place in the pentathlon with a personal best 4,085 points, 26 points behind the school record.
The Columbus Grove, Ohio, native had a fantastic final indoor track season, taking first in the event at both the Arkansas Invitational (3,907 points) and the BIG EAST Championship (4,016 points), her second such title in two years.
Stechschulte is the first All-American for the track squad since the 2005 season when Jennifer Davis, Susan Davis, Jennifer Kemp and Pam Richardson earned the honor with their sixth place finish in the distance medley relay at the NCAA indoors and Megan Metcalfe earned her fifth award with her 5,000 meter victory at the NCAA outdoor championship.
The top eight finishers in each event at last weekend's championship are accorded All-America status. In the individual (non-relay) events, if one ore more of the top eight finishers is of another nationality, eight U.S.-born collegians are selected in addition to any foreign-born All-Americans. All told, nine student-athletes earned the honor for their pentathlon finish.
Having sat out the 2006 outdoor season with a redshirt, Stechschulte will mark her return to the team this weekend with the season opener at the UNC-Charlotte Invitational on Mar. 16-17.
