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(Lock
Haven, Pa.) - Lock
Haven University of Pennsylvania men’s and women’s indoor track and field
student-athletes Brooke Rangi (Kawerau, New Zealand/Kawerau College)
and Paul Hallman (Langhorne/ Neshaminy) both earned selection as
the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Indoor Track and Field Rookie
of the Year as released by the conference office today.
Haven head coach Mark Elliston was a two-time winner, garnering PSAC
Men’s and Women’s Coach of the Year honors.
Rangi won two individual events at the PSAC
Indoor Track and Field Championships, provisionally qualifying for nationals in
both events, and took fifth in another. She
won the 55-meter hurdles with a PSAC indoor and school-record time of 8.28 and
the high jump by clearing 5-5 ¾. She took fifth in the long jump with a leap
of 17-1 ¼. Rangi is also a member
of the Lock Haven women’s soccer team which won PSAC and NCAA Northeast
Region championships during the 2001 season.
Hallman
played a key role in helping the Bald Eagles to the gold medal in the
first-ever men’s PSAC Indoor Championship. He won one individual event,
placed second in another and was part of a first- and third-place relays.
Hallman won the 800 meters in a time of 1:57.20 and was second in the
mile with a time of 4:23.17. He
also was a part of the 4x800 meter relay team which took first in a time of
7:59.35 and the third-place distance medley relay team (10:35.10).
Elliston,
in his 13th year as head coach, directed Lock Haven’s men’s and
women’s teams to first-place finishes in the inaugural PSAC Indoor Track and
Field Championships. The men’s
team won by 19 points with three individual champions and two relay champions.
The women’s team captured first by more than 44 points and produced
five individual champions. Elliston
has been named PSAC men’s outdoor Coach of the Year twice, in 1999-2000, and
in 1998-99, the year the men’s team won its first PSAC Outdoor Championship
in 50 years. For the women, it was
the program’s first track and field conference championship, indoor or
outdoor. The veteran Haven mentor also merited the NCAA Division II East Region
Men’s and Women’s Coach of the Year honors earlier this month.
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PSAC Indoor Track & Field
Women and Men's Rookies of the Year
Brooke Rangi; Paul Hallman
PSAC Indoor Track & Field
Men's and Women's Coach of the Year
LHU's Mark Elliston
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