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BHSU cross country team finishes in top ten at nationals
he men’s and women’s cross country teams post- ed another successful season under the direction of Head Coach Scott Walkinshaw. The running Yellow Jackets left Spearfish and headed to Kenosha, Wis. with one major goal, entering the National Championships to finish high- er than they were rated enter- ing the meet.
O'Lexey
The men's team entered the meet tied for fifth, while the women were rated #22. The results concluding the championship meet had a different story as the Lady Yellow Jackets posted three personal bests out of their seven competing run- ners and finished in the 8th position in the team scoring. Wendy O'Lexey (Rock
Washburn
Springs, Wyo.) was the top finisher for the Lady
The BHSU men's cross country team were runners-up at the National Championships with a team score of 202 points. Pictured left to right are Coach Scott Walkinshaw, Allen Wood (All- American), Mike Nekuda, Cody Bordewyk (All-American), Birch Haraden, Tyrone White, KC Fiedler, Trent Waage (All-American), and Assistant Coach Trent Mack.
Jackets, taking All-American honors by finishing 9th, with a personal best 17:58, in a field of 268 runners. Teammate Kerry Washburn (Cheyenne, Wyo.) also earned All-American status finishing in the top 30 runners when she posted a 5,000 meter time of 18:24, which was good for 29th place. After coming back from a late season injury, junior Alicia Verhulst (Ralph) man- aged to put a solid race together finishing
right ahead of teammate Shelli Scheffler (Lovell, Wyo.). The pair both posted times of 19:04 and finished in the 88th and 89th positions. Katie Cook (Chey enne, Wyo.) was the fifth runner for the Lady Yellow Jackets finishing in 125th. Katie posted a per- sonal best time of 19:23. The final two run- ners for BHSU were Kaila Ivers (Wray,
Wood
Bordewyk
Colo.) and Kayla Ferguson (Eaton, Colo.) finishing in the 197th and 222nd posi- tions. The Lady Yellow Jackets tallied a team score of 255 points giving them an 8th place finish out of 29 teams. The men's team race was very com- petitive up front with only 38 points sepa-
Waage Continued on page 31 96-97 Women's basketball team inducted into BHSU Hall of Fame
The 1996-97 women’s basketball team was inducted into the Yellow Jacket Hall of Fame during the recent 2007 homecoming celebration at Black Hills State University. Members of the 1996- 97 team attending the celebration were: back row, left to right, Melinda Oster, Kristi (Dykes) Delahoyde, Beckie (Bunting) Kaczynski, JoEllen (Hofer) Salmen, and Jennifer Pedersen; mid- dle row, left to right, Assistant Coach Katie Dailey, Marcy Myers, Cori (Ring- wood) Engelhardt, Steph Kelley, Sara (Wells) Klein, Traci (Schenk) Dana, Kim (Rochlitz) Niemann, Student Assistant Della Authier, and Head Coach Robin Schamber; and kneeling, left to right, Michelle Artery, Cindy (Winjum) Riss, and Tracy (Winjum) Meyers.
Black Hills State University Alumni Magazine Page 30
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