Behrend's Hartzler Headed to NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships
Penn State Behrend's
Bryson Hartzler (Belleville, PA/Indian Valley) has qualified for the
NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships which will be hosted
May 21-23 by Marietta College.
Hartzler was part of a group of Behrend track & field athletes who
recently competed at the ECAC Championships. In the high jump,
the sophomore cleared a mark of 6' 4.75" to finish in sixth place.
Hartzler qualified for the NCAA championships when he set a school
record with a jump of 6' 8.75" earlier this season.
Hartzler will be the third student-athlete in Penn State Behrend
track and field history to compete at the NCAA championships,
following Staci Banaszek (2006) and Dan Mitchell (2006, 2007).
Hartzler's top high jump mark of the year is currently in a
six-way tie for the tenth ranked jump in the nation. To
earn All-American honors, athletes must place in the top
eight of their respective events at the championships.
Head coach Greg Cooper said, "Bryson's goal and my goal are
to achieve a top-eight finish at the NCAA championships.
We both feel he is ready to jump his highest right now, and
look forward to competing with the other top high jumpers in
the nation."
At the ECAC championships, Behrend also got notable
performances from several other athletes. Ronzon
Mazany (Ashville, NY/Panama Central)
who cleared 22' 2.25" in
the long jump, just barely missed qualifying for the NCAA
championships. Virginia Rodgers-Owens
(Washington, DC/Dunbar)
ran the finals of the 100 meter dash in 12.79 seconds, good
for a seventh place finish, while Mike Stark
(Gibsonia, PA/Pine Richland)
came through with 5591 points in the decathlon, finishing in
seventh place.
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