GENEVA, Ohio --- It was another banner day for Biola women's Indoor Track & Field program as the team earned six NAIA All-American awards with strong finishes in a relay and the pole vault.
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Nicole Falkenstein set a new school record in the pole vault and finished fourth, while her teammate,
Taylor McCahon, also came in as an All-American in eighth. Falkenstein's successful vault at 3.68m eclipsed the school record that McCahon set at the Indoor nationals two seasons ago at this event.
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The All-American nods become a combined sixth between the two student-athletes, as Falkenstein grabs her second and McCahon her fourth.
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Biola got four other All-Americans with a solid run in the 4x800m relay. It is the fifth consecutive season that Biola's team in this event went home with the All-American plaques. This year's racers included
Kathleen Bell,
Lyndee Dawson,
Anika Gasner and
Alexandra Sciarra. They placed fourth overall with a 9:14.46.
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Sciarra also made some individual headlines when she smashed the school's record in the 800m. She ran a 2:12.18 to finish with the fastest qualifying time after prelims. She will go in the finals tomorrow, the last day at the Championships.
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Sciarra set the record in the 800m, and in the process took a record away from Gasner, who set the previous 800m-mark last season. Gasner made up for that with her qualification run in the 1,000m run. She put up a 2:57.25 to secure her spot in tomorrow's finals. She will have a chance to break her sister, Kelsey Gasner's, school record in that event if she shaves just under four seconds.
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The efforts put forth by the Eagles' student-athletes has Biola sitting in the top 10 after the first two-thirds of competition.
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Everything finishes up tomorrow from Geveva, Ohio as
Carrie Soholt,
Danny Ledesma, Gasner, Sciarra and Dawson all have a chance to compete in some event finals and bring home more All-American hardware.
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