The 2023 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Awards were released on Tuesday (March 21) afternoon, and Ashland University fifth-year thrower
Carrol Pauley has been recognized as the league's Women's Field Athlete of the Year.
At the 2023 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, Pauley earned her fourth All-American award in the women's weight throw, placing seventh nationally at 18.69 meters/61-feet-4. She won the 2023 Great Midwest title at the Niss Athletic Center in the women's weight throw with a top mark of 19.14 meters/62-feet-10.
Pauley is Ashland's first conference Women's Field Athlete of the Year since
Lindsay Baker in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2019.
A list of Ashland men and women who earned first-, second- and third-team all-conference honors at the 2023 indoor meet follows:
FIRST TEAM
Wyatt Cory – Heptathlon
Carrol Pauley – Weight Throw
Storm Elsesser – High Jump
Cheyanne Davis – 4x400 Relay
Macy Creamer – 4x400 Relay
Jade Avance – 4x400 Relay
Mia Gardner – 4x400 Relay
Derrick Amapps – 4x400 Relay
Colin Roberts – 4x400 Relay
Jacob Pielech – 4x400 Relay
Noah Wood – 4x400 Relay
SECOND TEAM
Emma Liberatore – High Jump
THIRD TEAM
Kaylin Martin – Long Jump
Caden Morris – Long Jump
Kelsey Kinsley – Shot Put
