December 3, 2014

Women's Indoor Track & Field Picked to Repeat as Landmark Champions

TOWSON, Md. --- The Moravian College women’s indoor track & field team has been selected to repeat as the 2015 Landmark Conference Indoor Champions in a preseason poll conducted by the conference’s head coaches.

TOWSON, Md. --- The Moravian College women's indoor track & field team has been selected to repeat as the 2015 Landmark Conference Indoor Champions in a preseason poll conducted by the conference's head coaches.

The Greyhounds, who are the only school in the Landmark to win a women's conference title either indoors or outdoors since the conference began in 2007, are seeking their eighth straight championship when the conference members come together for the 2015 meet at Susquehanna University on February 28 in Selinsgrove.

The Hounds received five first-place votes and 55 points to finish 14 points ahead of Susquehanna. The Crusaders had one first-place vote while conference newcomer Elizabethtown College received the final first-place tally.

Fourth-year Head Coach Jesse Baumann returns 28 of the 32 letterwinners from last year's championship team. The team also returns 10 of 11 student-athletes that earned Landmark All-Conference honors last winter including sophomore Lauren Suelke, who was the 2014 Landmark Co-Indoor Athlete of the Year. Baumann has brought in another 15 newcomers that add depth to the talented squad.

"It's great to be viewed this way by fellow coaches, but it really doesn't matter at all in December," commented Baumann. "We don't know how Elizabethtown will shake up the conference, what freshmen will step up, or what injuries will reshape the conference. The conference meet is three months away, and all schools have a big winter break situated right in the middle of a key training block for the season, so there are just too many variables at play to accurately project who will win at this point in the year.

With all of that said, I am excited for the potential of our women's team," Baumann continued. "We have a nice blend of senior leadership with talented youth. In the four years I've been here, this is probably the best depth we've had across all event groups. I don't feel like we have a "weak spot." Our objective is to be more competitive on the national stage and if we can get some of our athletes to qualify for ECACs and NCAAs, I think we'll have the complimentary depth to have a good showing by the time the conference meet rolls around in February."

Moravian will open its 2014-15 indoor season on Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6 at the Fast Times Before Finals meet at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse.

2014 Landmark Women's Indoor Track & Field Preseason Poll