2009 Track Team

2009 Men's Track Team

2009 Men's Track Team

Track & Field News

Georgetown's Mayo, Swinson Compete in NAIA National Championships (5-26-2009)

Edwardsville, Ill. — Georgetown College's John Michael Mayo and Matthew Swinson competed in the NAIA National Track & Field Championships held May 21-23 at Ralph Korte Stadium in Edwardsville, Ill.  The 58th annual championships were hosted by the St. Louis Sports Commission and Lindenwood, McKendree and Missouri Baptist universities.

While neither Tiger advanced out of their preliminaries, both gained the experience of competing against the best in the NAIA as young members of the improving Tiger program.  Coach Jeff Hulsmeyer says he expects Mayo and Swinson to take the experience and use it as motivation to train hard to qualify and return to the national meet.

"You hope that your athletes will peak at the national meet, but sometimes that just doesn't happen," said Hulsmeyer.  "They will learn from this and come back a lot stronger next year because of it."

Mayo, a sophomore from Pikeville, Ky., was plagued with an elbow injury that kept him from throwing his best.  He finished tenth in the his flight with a throw of 54.09 meters.

Teammate Swinson, a freshman from Capitol Heights, Md., competed in the triple jump event and finished fifth in his flight with a jump of 13.49 meters.  Hulsmeyer expects him to not only qualify again next season, but to make it in another event as well.  "Matthew is a great young talent as a jumper and I think he could qualify in the high jump next year in addition to the triple jump," said Hulsmeyer.

Mid-South Conference Track Results

Williamsburg, KY--Georgetown College's John Michael Mayo, Alicia Hurst and Caroline Hutson all won individual events at the Mid-South Conference Championships on Saturday.

Mayo, a sophomore from Pikeville, Ky., won the men's javelin event with a throw of 56.07 meters.  On the women's side, Hurst (Owingsville, Ky.), also a sophomore, took top honors in the high jump with 1.47 meters while freshman Hutson (Paducah, Ky.) tallied a 10.60 meters in the triple jump for first place.

Individual honors were also awarded to Michael Clemons and Amanda Bolton, as the MSC's Track Male and Female Champions of Character student-athletes.

Both the men's and women's Georgetown teams finished fifth out of seven teams.

For complete results, click here.

Athletics Honors 87 Student-Athletes with Letter Jackets (12-8-08)

Georgetown College Director of Athletics Eric Ward awarded 87 letter jackets to the 2007 Letterman Class in the annual ceremony held Sunday, December 7 at Alumni Gymnasium.

Student-athletes were given jackets for earning their first varsity letter in athletics at the school.  The criteria for being a letterwinner is determined by each sport's coaching staff.

The following track student-athletes were honored:

track - men           
Seth Kochera             
John Michael Mayo
Jacob Sword           
 
track - women 
Caitlin Anglin
Jenny Hitt
Alicia Hurst