Moravian's Multiple National Titles in 2011 Named Landmark Conference Men's Outdoor Track & Field Top Moment
TOWSON, Md. --- The 2016-17 season marks the 10-year anniversary for the Landmark Conference. As part of the buildup to each sport’s championship season, fans were asked to select their favorite moment from the first decade from a list created by members of the conference. Each winning moment will be announced prior to the conference championship.
TOWSON, Md. --- The 2016-17 season marks the 10-year anniversary for the Landmark Conference. As part of the buildup to each sport's championship season, fans were asked to select their favorite moment from the first decade from a list created by members of the conference. Each winning moment will be announced prior to the conference championship.
After the final round of voting, Moravian's winning multiple individual national championships in 2011 received 87% of the votes to win the Landmark Men's Outdoor Track & Field Top Moment. Moravian's Ozzie Brown winning the NCAA Decathlon title in 2008 finished second and Elizabethtown College's Mike Twist receiving All-America honors in 2016 was third.
The Moravian College men's outdoor track & field team had three competitors on the third and final day of the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University, and the Greyhounds earned three national championships with two by senior Eric Woodruff and one by junior Gary Zack.
With the three individual champions, Moravian scored 30 points and placed sixth of the 82 schools that earned points in the meet. North Central College won the team national championship with 58 points while The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse was second with 56 points. McMurray (TX) University took third with 50 points.
Woodruff captured a pair of national championships to become the first student-athlete in school history to win more than two NCAA titles. Abigail Schaffer, Anna Heim, Ozzie Brown, Jeff Cullingford and Christina Scherwin each have won two NCAA titles.
Woodruff opened his afternoon by winning his first 100-meter dash title with a winning time of 10.90 seconds. He won the race by two-hundredths of a second, and all eight competitors were separated by just 12 hundredths of a second in the race.
Woodruff then won the 200-meter dash for the third straight year in dominating fashion. After winning his preliminary heat by six-tenths of a second, Woodruff won the national title by half a second with a winning time of 21.55 seconds into a strong headwind. For Woodruff, he completed his career with fourth NCAA titles, three in the 200-meter dash, and he graduates as a seven-time All-American.
Zack won the javelin throw with his first toss of the meet, a Moravian school record toss of 67.36 meters (221 feet). Zack had the longest throw by two feet, one inch over Lars Tenglin from North Park University, who entered the meet with the top distance in the nation, and Zack earned All-America honors for the first time in his career. Zack competed in the second flight of the preliminaries and actually fouled on his second and third attempts. In the finals, Zack had throws of 60.43, 60.50 and 59.13 meters. The titles by Zack and Woodruff also gave Moravian a total of 20 individual national champions at the time with 19 from the track & field programs.
