GAMBIER — Sophomore Tiffany Hix (Prospect, Ohio/Elgin) won the North Coast Athletic Conference championship in the pole vault to lead the Wittenberg women's track and field team to the top of the team standings on Day 1 of the NCAC Indoor Championships at Kenyon College on Friday.

The Basics

• Venue: Toan Indoor Track - Gambier, Ohio
• NCAC Championships site
• Host site
• The top three finishers in each event, including relays, earn All-NCAC honors, and the top eight finishers score team points.
• Wittenberg leads the team standings with 71.5 points. DePauw is second with 47 points, and Ohio Wesleyan is third with 41.5 points.
• Wittenberg entered Friday's portion of the competition with nine points following last weekend's pentathlon.

Wittenberg Highlights

• The Tigers finished the day with five All-Conference finishes.
• Hix won the pole vault with a mark of 3.34 meters. This marks her second All-Conference honor in the event, as she placed third as a freshman.
• Sophomore Aidan Orth (Cincinnati, Ohio/Anderson) and freshman Jenna Delp (Canton, Ohio/GlenOak) earned All-NCAC honors with second-place finishes in the weight throw and long jump, respectively. Orth posted a mark of 15.29 meters in the weight throw, and Delp posted a mark of 5.18 meters in the long jump.
• Freshmen G'Niyah Brown (Dayton, Ohio/Wayne) and Maddi Clark (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor) earned All-NCAC recognition with third-place finishes in the long jump and 5,000 meters, respectively. Brown posted a mark of 5.08 meters in the long jump, and Clark ran a time of 18:11.47 in the 5,000.
• Freshman Story Laing (Granville, Ohio/Granville) joined Hix in scoring in the pole vault, tying for fourth place with a mark of 3.09 meters.
• Junior Lainee Valentine (Marion, Ohio/River Valley), freshman Michaela Stroder (Springfield, Ohio/Springfield) and junior Julissa Williams (Lorain, Ohio/Lorain) joined Delp and Brown as scorers in the long jump. Valentine was fourth with a mark of 5.08 meters, Stroder was fifth with a mark of 5.03 meters and Williams was eighth with a mark of 4.97 meters.
• Sophomore Emma Hawk (Marion, Ohio/River Valley) and junior Megan Keys (Dublin, Ohio/Jerome) joined Clark in scoring in the 5,000 meters. Hawk placed fourth in 18:15.70, and Keys was sixth in 18:29.17.
• The distance medley relay team of freshman Alex Couch (Howard, Ohio/Mount Vernon), sophomore Abbey Danne (Johnstown, Ohio/Big Walnut), junior Victoria Pipinich (Fort Worth, Texas/All Saints Episcopal) and sophomore Mackenzie Kelley (Altoona, Pa./Altoona) ran 13:15.02 for a seventh-place finish. 

Up Next

• The NCAC Championships will conclude on Saturday with events beginning at 10 a.m.