2013 MIAC Women's Indoor Track and Field Awards
Outstanding Women's Track Athlete - Taylor Berg, St. Thomas
Berg, a senior from Eagan, MN added to her honors list, which already includes the MIAC's individual cross country title and Athlete-of-the-Year award in the fall, and the Central Region Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Year.
Outstanding Women's Field Athlete - Becky Culp, Hamline
Culp (Sr., Lino Lakes, MN/Centennial) successfully defended her MIAC Indoor shot put title, added a runner-up finish in the weight throw and broke a 15-year-old meet record to earn Outstanding Women's Field Athlete honors. Culp's second-straight shot put title featured a dash of history in 2013 as she broke the previous record of 46' 6.25" not once but twice - once in the prelims and again in the finals - with a new record distance of 47-3.5. The old record was also set by a Hamline thrower, Misty Bahr, in 1998. Culp added an All-Conference honor in the weight throw, finishing second only to teammate Shawny Kramer, with a distance of 54-0.5.
Women's Outstanding Performance-of-the-Meet - Taylor Berg, St. Thomas, 1,000-meter run
- Berg added to her awards haul with the Women's Outstanding Performance-of-the-Meet honor thanks to her first-place showing in the 1,000-meter run. Berg not only finished first with her time of 2:52.37, but she set a new MIAC meet record and St. Olaf Tostrud Center record in the process. Her time broke the previous record, set exactly 10 years earlier at the MIAC meet also at St. Olaf by the Oles' Megan Daymont (2:54.28). Berg finished nearly three full seconds ahead of the runner up, and defeated each of the last two MIAC Indoor champions in the event with her record time.
Women's Coach-of-the-Year - Andrea Gelle, St. Olaf
- Gelle (Third season) received her first MIAC Women's Indoor Coach-of-the-Year honor after leading her team to a second-place finish on its home track in a closely-contested battle for runner-up status. The Oles finished with 83 points to edge Saint Benedict (81), Gustavus (75), Carleton (74) and Bethel (73). Gelle's team has improved in each of her three seasons from fifth in 2011 to third a year ago and second this season. Over the weekend Gelle coached two individual indoor champions - Emily Stets in the 600-meter run and Emma Lee in the 5,000-meter run - as well as five All-Conference selections and nine All-Conference Honorable Mention honorees.
Outstanding Women's Track Athlete - Taylor Berg, St. Thomas
Berg, a senior from Eagan, MN added to her honors list, which already includes the MIAC's individual cross country title and Athlete-of-the-Year award in the fall, and the Central Region Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Year.
Outstanding Women's Field Athlete - Becky Culp, Hamline
Culp (Sr., Lino Lakes, MN/Centennial) successfully defended her MIAC Indoor shot put title, added a runner-up finish in the weight throw and broke a 15-year-old meet record to earn Outstanding Women's Field Athlete honors. Culp's second-straight shot put title featured a dash of history in 2013 as she broke the previous record of 46' 6.25" not once but twice - once in the prelims and again in the finals - with a new record distance of 47-3.5. The old record was also set by a Hamline thrower, Misty Bahr, in 1998. Culp added an All-Conference honor in the weight throw, finishing second only to teammate Shawny Kramer, with a distance of 54-0.5.
Women's Outstanding Performance-of-the-Meet - Taylor Berg, St. Thomas, 1,000-meter run
- Berg added to her awards haul with the Women's Outstanding Performance-of-the-Meet honor thanks to her first-place showing in the 1,000-meter run. Berg not only finished first with her time of 2:52.37, but she set a new MIAC meet record and St. Olaf Tostrud Center record in the process. Her time broke the previous record, set exactly 10 years earlier at the MIAC meet also at St. Olaf by the Oles' Megan Daymont (2:54.28). Berg finished nearly three full seconds ahead of the runner up, and defeated each of the last two MIAC Indoor champions in the event with her record time.
Women's Coach-of-the-Year - Andrea Gelle, St. Olaf
- Gelle (Third season) received her first MIAC Women's Indoor Coach-of-the-Year honor after leading her team to a second-place finish on its home track in a closely-contested battle for runner-up status. The Oles finished with 83 points to edge Saint Benedict (81), Gustavus (75), Carleton (74) and Bethel (73). Gelle's team has improved in each of her three seasons from fifth in 2011 to third a year ago and second this season. Over the weekend Gelle coached two individual indoor champions - Emily Stets in the 600-meter run and Emma Lee in the 5,000-meter run - as well as five All-Conference selections and nine All-Conference Honorable Mention honorees.
2013 All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team
Augsburg - Ashley Carney (Jr., Lakeville, Minn./South)
Bethel - Steph Skoog (Jr., Richfield, Minn.)
Carleton - Laura Newcombe (Sr., Lambertville, N.J./Emma Willard)
Concordia - Natalie Decker (Sr., Darwin, Minn./Hutchinson)
Gustavus - Amanda Iverson (Sr., Waconia, Minn.)
Hamline - Hilary Murphy (Sr., North St. Paul, Minn.)
Macalester - Shasta Webb (Sr., Los Gatos, Calif.)
Saint Benedict - Diane Beckius (Sr., Avon. Minn./Albany)
St. Catherine - Ashley Matthys (Sr., Elk River, Minn.)
Saint Mary's - Coco Booker (Sr., St. Paul, Minn./Hill-Murray)
St. Olaf - Moriah Novacinski (Jr., St. Joseph, Minn./St. Cloud Apollo)
St. Thomas - Katie Ryan (Sr., Eagan, Minn.)
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