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2013 OAC Preseason Outdoor Track and Field Polls
The Capital University women's track and field team was selected to finish in a tie for fifth in the Ohio Athletic Conference by the league's coaches in the 2013 OAC Preseason Outdoor Track and Field Poll, the conference announced Wednesday, March 20.
The Crusaders garnered 32 points, the same amount received by Marietta. Defending outdoor champion and 2013 indoor champion Mount Union earned seven of the nine first-place votes and totaled 59 points, nine ahead of Ohio Northern. John Carroll tallied the remaining two first-place votes and finished third with 49 points.
Capital placed fourth at the OAC Indoor Championships last month, besting fifth-place Marietta by 11 points (84-73). Senior Emma McCarron (Mansfield, Ohio) won a pair of events, taking the 1-mile run in 5:14.71 and the 3,000-meter run in an OAC- and school-record time of 10:07.54.
Junior Caitlin Prange (Columbus, Ohio), senior Aimee Hall (Amanda, Ohio) and senior Emily Sheets (Gahanna, Ohio) also posted All-OAC individual performances. Prange placed second in the 400-meter dash (59.42) and the 200-meter dash (26.39), Hall was third in the 200 (26.70) and Sheets finished second in the high jump with a mark of 5-03.00.
Prange and Hall also combined with senior Casey Simmons (Beavercreek, Ohio) and junior Jessi Knoll (Willard, Ohio) for runner-up finishes in the 4x200-meter (1:47.18) and 4x400-meter (4:06.17) relays.
The Crusaders placed fourth at last season's outdoor championships. Hall and Prange were a part of the team's runner-up 4x400 relay and, along with Simmons, a part of the third-place 4x100 squad. Prange and Knoll finished with all-conference marks in the 200 dash and 400-meter hurdles, respectively.
