CAC Selects Kari Olney as Athlete of the Week

YORK, Pa. -- Stevenson junior MATT LUKEHART (Bel Air, Md./Mt. Carmel), Wesley senior ANDREW SMYTH (Delran, N.J./Delran), York junior STEVE COLLISON (Westville, N.J./Woodbury), Mary Washington senior BECKY MORSE-KARZEN (Wilmette, Ill./New Trier), Salisbury Jr. BRANDON FUGETT (Randallstown, Md./Cardinal Gibbons), York Fr. DARREN McKOY (Baltimore, Md./Mount Saint Joseph), Gallaudet senior KARI OLNEY (Riverside, Calif./California School F/T Deaf) and Mary Washington senior MAE WINCHESTER (Yorktown, Va./Yorktown) were selected as the Capital Athletic Conference Athletes of the Week for March 31, 2009.

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD
Gallaudet senior KARI OLNEY (Riverside, Calif./California School F/T Deaf) and Mary Washington senior MAE WINCHESTER (Yorktown, Va./Yorktown) were named the CAC Women's Track & Field Athletes of the Week for double gold-medal performances at the Battleground Relays at the University of Mary Washington. Olney captured top honors in a pair of distance races - the 3,000-meter run (11;33.51) and the 3,000-meter steeplechase (12:45.50) - and added a sixth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run (21:28.90) to lead the Bison. Winchester outdueled the competition in the hurdles, taking the gold in the 100 (15.33) and 400 (1:05.03) prior to anchoring the UMW 4x400 relay team (4:05.79). 

MEN'S TRACK & FIELD
Salisbury Jr. BRANDON FUGETT (Randallstown, Md./Cardinal Gibbons) and York Fr. DARREN McKOY (Baltimore, Md./Mount Saint Joseph) were named the CAC Men's Track & Field Co-Athletes of the Week. Fugett broke his own school record, set just a week ago, with a second-place finish in the shot put (15.8 m; 51-10) and provisionally qualified for the NCAA outdoor championships with a 47.48m (155-9) gold medal performance in the discus at the Terrapin Invitational at the University of Maryland. McKoy anchored York's school-record 4x100 relay team that placed second overall (42.91) and had the fastest trials time (11.36) in the 100-meter dash before registering a second-place finish in the finals with an 11.30 effort.  He also helped the 4x200 relay team and the sprint medley relay teams to silver medal performances.

Mens Track WEEKLY HONOR ROLL
GALLAUDET: ANTHONY BASKINS, Sr., hurdles, North Tonawanda, N.Y./St. Mary's School F/T
MARY WASHINGTON: MATT GELLER, So., throws, Huntington, N.Y./Harborfields
WESLEY: CHRIS DONISI Fr., sprint/jumps, Woodbury, N.J./West Deptford

Named to CAC Honor Roll