Bemis and Lundy Highlight PSAC Women's Indoor Track & Field Postseason Accolades
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Lock Haven, Pa. – Shippensburg’s
Megan Lundy has earned PSAC Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year, while Edinboro’s
Tabitha Bemis has claimed the PSAC Women’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Year distinction for the third-consecutive year.
Summer Hill of California has earned the PSAC Freshman of the Year title, while the league’s head coaches selected
John Papa of Slippery Rock as the PSAC Women’s Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year.
Lundy clinched All-America honors at the 2014 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championship in the women’s 400m dash. She placed eighth overall with a time of 56.62, just three-tenths of a second off her season-best time of 56.34 that she ran in the national prelims. Lundy, the reigning PSAC Freshman of the Year, is the first woman in Shippensburg history to earn All-America honors in the 400m dash. She defended her conference 400m title this season with a first-place finish time of 56.45. Lundy won the 2013 400m title as a freshman with a time of 57.38. She also ran the anchor leg of Shippensburg’s 4x400m relay team in 2014 and led her team to a first-place conference finish behind a combined time of 3:54.48.
Bemis, a four-time indoor track and field All-American, was the runner-up in the women’s long jump at the 2014 national championship with a season-best mark of 6.0m (19’ 8 ¼”). She also earned All-America status with a seventh-place finish in the triple jump with a mark of 12.44m (40’ 9 ¾”). Bemis placed 12th in the 60m hurdles on the national stage with a time of 8.63. Bemis has been named the PSAC Indoor Championships’ Most Valuable Field Athlete and Overall Most Valuable Athlete for three straight seasons. She defended her 2013 PSAC titles this season in the long jump (5.85m 19’ 2 ½”), triple jump (12.11m 39’ 8 ¾”), and 60m hurdles (8.60). Bemis has been named the PSAC Indoor Field Athlete of the Year for three straight seasons.
Hill earned her debut on the national stage as a freshman and finished 10th in the women’s mile at the NCAA D-II Indoor Championship. She completed the mile in 4:59.15, while also leading the California distance medley relay team to a 13th-place finish with a combined time of 12:12.98. The rookie won the PSAC title in the mile with a time of 4:57.73 and led her DMR team to first-place with a combined time of 12:00.87. Hill also took All-Conference honors in the 800m run with a third-place time of 2:19.78. Hill and the DMR’s performances at the NCAA Championship marked California’s first appearance at the national meet since 2008.
Papa led The Rock to its fourth-ever PSAC title to earn his third PSAC Women’s Coach of the Year distinction. Slippery Rock won the league crown with 108 points and dethroned four-time defending Shippensburg. Papa has also guided The Rock program to outright league titles in 2007 and 2009 and a shared crown with Shippensburg in 2008. In his 27th year at the helm of the cross country and track and field programs at Slippery Rock, Papa has led The Rock to 22 PSAC team titles. He has also won the PSAC Women’s Coach of the Year award in 2007 and 2009.
2013-14 PSAC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Awards
Women's Track Athlete of the Year: Megan Lundy, Shippensburg
Women's Field Athlete of the Year: Tabitha Bemis, Edinboro
Women's Freshman of the Year: Summer Hill, California
Women's Coach of the Year: John Papa, Slippery Rock