NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championship Women's Weight Throw Final Results

            Mckenzie Scheil of Wayne State College earned her second career All-American finish in indoor track and field with a sixth place finish of 64' ¼" Friday evening in the weight throw at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships held at the Robert W. Plaster Center in Pittsburg, Kansas.
            Scheil, a graduate student from Fairmont (Fillmore Central HS), had a top prelim throw of 62' 5" and was the #5 qualifier entering the finals.  On her final attempt in finals, Scheil posted her top mark of 64' ¼" to finish sixth place and collect her second All-American honor in the weight throw.  She was the national runner-up in the event last season.
            Also competing in the weight throw was junior Brooklynn Chipps, who scratched on her first two attempts in prelims and posted a mark of 56' 8 ¾" on her third and final throw in prelims to finish 14th out of 19 competitors.  Chipps (Clearwater HS), ranked seventh in NCAA Division II entering the national meet with a season-best mark of 64' 7" at the USD Alumni Meet in Vermillion, S.D. February 5th.