2008-09 TRACK & FIELD ACCOMPLISHMENTS
INDOOR SEASON
The Flyers finished second in the 2009 Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships to match the program's best-ever finish. UD earned the most points in program history finishing with 139.
Five Flyers captured conference crowns in their events at the A-10 Championships including Amy Kremer (high jump), Ashley Cattran (800 meter), Courtney Siebenaller (pole vault), Mallory Barnes (weight throw) and Johnna Zaccari (shot put).
Head Coach Adam Steinwachs was named the 2009 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, a program first.
At the A-10 Championships, freshman Courtney Siebenaller earned the league's Rookie of the Meet Award, while teammate Mallory Barnes garnered the A-10 Field Performer of the Meet honor.
At the A-10 Championship, three Flyers set new meet records including Courtney Siebenaller in the pole vault (12-11.50), Mallory Barnes in the weight throw (62.02.25) and Ashley Cattran in the 800 meter (2:11.78).
Ashley Cattran and Johnna Zaccari were both named to the 2009 Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team.
Ashley Cattran set seven new records in roughly three months in the 800 meter.
Ashley Cattran provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championship after finishing first with a time of 2:08.54 at Findlay. It was a meet record and it marked the second time in history a UD athlete has provisionally qualified for the NCAA indoor championships (first ever runner).
Cattran's time of 2:07.34 recorded at the Akron Invitational qualified her for the U.S. National Championships. It was the fourth-straight time she had lowered the meet record. Siebenaller provisionally qualified for the pole vault at the same meet with a record-breaking 13-00.25 mark. It was the first time in program history that two athletes qualified for nationals in the same meet.
Ashley Cattran competed at the National Championship on April 13 finishing 12th with a personal best of 2:06.37 in the indoor 800m.
Courtney Siebenaller shattered the school record in the pole vault on Jan. 23 (12-05.50).
The Flyers won the Jane Hermann Invite on Jan. 23 after scoring 150 team points and recording 11 first place finishes.
Courtney Siebenaller and Ashley Cattran each earned three A-10 Weekly honors. Siebenaller garnered A-10 Rookie of the Week three times, Cattran picked up Performer of the Week.
OUTDOOR SEASON
Courtney Siebenaller toppled UD's outdoor pole vault record at the Early Bird Relays with her jump of 11-09.75. She followed that mark up with another school record mark of 12-03.25.
The 4x400 relay team of Rachel Weber, Sarah Howley, Stacy Chew, and Ashley Cattran broke the school record by more than four seconds (3:48.20).
The Flyers finished second at the Early Bird Relays and Oliver Nikoloff meets.
Ashley Cattran running in the 1500 meter for the first time ever, set a new school record at the Miami Invitational on April 12.
Ashley Cattran also broke the outdoor 800 meter record at the Florida Relays running in 2:12.55.
Courtney Siebenaller earned three-straight A-10 Rookie of the Week awards.
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