Men's Track and Field

Rose-Hulman Wins 8th-Straight HCAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championship

Rose-Hulman Wins 8th-Straight HCAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championship

RESULTS

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men’s track and field team won the 2015 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship held at Transylvania University on April 24-25 in record fashion.  The Engineers scored a meet record 311.5 points in the 20 events to hold off Anderson’s 93 point effort to claim the school’s eighth straight HCAC men’s outdoor track title. 

The Rose-Hulman men had 10 event winners during the weekend. Senior Blake Schulthies (Dubois, Ind./Northeast Dubois) won a pair of events, claiming the title in the pole vault and 400-meter hurdles.  Sophomore Andrew Okruch (Mt. Washington, Ky./Bullitt East) also won multiple events for the Engineers, posting wins in the shot put and discus.

Anderson finished second in the men’s team standings with 93 points with Bluffton placing third with 69.5 points. Manchester finished fourth with 64 points and was followed by Hanover (63 points), Defiance (62), Franklin (61), Transylvania (26), Earlham (18), and Mount St. Joseph (12).

Men’s Event Winners                                                                            

100 meter dash

Cole Green, Transylvania

10.92

200 meter dash

Darius Spinks, Defiance

21.92

400 meter dash

Josh Hennig, Rose-Hulman

49:95

800 meter run

Brendon Mattiuz, Rose-Hulman

1:57.62

1500 meter run

Brandon Loyer, Rose-Hulman

4:06.25

5000 meter run

Matt Hill, Rose-Hulman

15:32.42

10,000 meter run

Sam Sobczak, Rose-Hulman

32:05.22

110 meter hurdles

Max Kittle, Anderson

15.07

400 meter hurdles

Blake Schulthies, Rose-Hulman

54.66

3000 steeplechase

Alex Gudeman, Manchester

9:34.11

4x100 meter relay

Anderson

42.57

4x400 meter relay

Anderson

3:20.66

High jump

Trey Everett, Bluffton

1.98 m

Pole vault

Blake Schulthies, Rose-Hulman

4.25 m

Long jump

Trey Everett, Bluffton

7.06 m

Triple Jump

Trey Everett, Bluffton

13.76 m

Shot put

Andrew Okruch, Rose-Hulman

15.08 m

Discus throw

Andrew Okruch, Rose-Hulman

48.05 m

Hammer throw

Zac Erba, Rose-Hulman

51.64 m

Javelin throw

Jeff Parker, Bluffton

58.29 m