Landmark Earns Three More All-Americans At NCAA Meet

OSHKOSH, Wis. - On the final day of competition at the 2008 NCAA Track & Field Championships Landmark Conference athletes earned three more All-America honors. Over the three day meet Landmark competitors claimed six All-America honors.

Moravian College senior Nathaniel Tussey (Perkiomenville, PA/Boyertown HS) earned All-American honors in both the 110-meter high hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles on the final day of the 2008 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted by the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh while Greyhound freshman Mary King (Paramus, NJ/Paramus HS) earned All-American accolades in the javelin throw.

The Moravian men tied for 17th of 81 teams scoring points with a total of 18 points to tie with Central (IA) College. McMurry (TX) University won the men’s title with 35 points while SUNY Cortland was second with 33 points and Whitworth University was third with 31 points.

On the women’s side, the Greyhounds were 43rd of 83 scoring teams with 6.5 points. The University of Wisconsin at River Falls and Illinois Wesleyan University tied for first place with 35 points while Wartburg (IA) College was third with 34 points.

Tussey became an All-American for the second time in his career with a fifth place finish in a time of 14.50 seconds to earn four points for Moravian’s team score. Greyhound senior Ozzie Brown (Plymouth Meeting, PA/Plymouth Whitemarsh HS), who won the decathlon national championship on Friday, placed ninth in the finals in a time of 15.13 seconds after hitting a hurdle.

Less than two hours later, Tussey would earn All-America honors again with another fifth place finish, this time in the 400-meter hurdles with a Moravian record time of 52.01 seconds. Tussey’s fifth place added another four points to the Greyhounds’ team score.

King, competing at the NCAA Championships for the first time in her career, had a toss of 40.78 meters (133 feet, nine inches) on her first throw of the competition. King’s distance would hold up for eighth place by two feet to earn All-America honors and one point for Moravian’s team score.