DIII Championships' Most Outstanding Performers Announced

May 30, 2013

NEW ORLEANS – Sean Bernstein of Oneonta State, Isaac Vazquez of UW-La Crosse, Christy Cazzola of UW-Oshkosh and Melissa Norville of Illinois College have been named the Outstanding Performers of the Meet for the Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Tuesday.

Four total awards are given to track performers and field performers for both men and women based on a point system that includes: the number of points scored at the championships, setting a meet record (five bonus points), setting a DIII season’s best (three bonus points) and a setting facility record (one bonus point). Total relay points will be divided by four.

Cazzola (42 points) earned women’s track performer honors with three individual wins on the track at 800, 1500 and 5000 meters, becoming the first DIII woman to accomplish that triple at one NCAA Championships meet. In addition to the 30 team points she scored in winning the events, she gained five bonus points for a meet-record 2:05.93 at 800 meters, three apiece for DIII season’s bests at 1500 meters in 4:17.22 and 5000 meters in 16:31.17 — the latter of which was a facility record for an additional point — for a total of 42 points.

Norville (29 points) claimed the women’s field performer honor with two individual wins in the field in the long jump and the triple jump — which, combined with her 100 hurdles win, makes her the fifth woman in DIII history to win three events at one outdoor championships and the first to complete that triple. In addition to the 20 team points from those two field events she contributed toward Illinois College’s sixth-place team finish, she added an additional nine bonus points for her winning long jump performance of 20-5w (6.22m, +4.1m/s).

Bernstein (23.5 points) took home the honor for men’s track performer with a title defense at 200 meters in 20.81 (-1.2m/s), a runner-up showing at 100 meters by less than a hundredth of a second in 10.77 (-3.2m/s), and leg of the winning 4×100 relay for 20.5 team points toward Oneonta State’s sixth-place team finish. His performance at 200 meters was a DIII season’s best for an additional three points, which broke a tie between Bernstein and UW-Eau Claire’s Thurgood Dennis — fitting because the two went back and forth all weekend in the sprints.

Vazquez (21 points) was named the men’s field performer winner after a win in the long jump with a DIII-best 25-4¾ (7.74m) and a runner-up showing in the triple jump 50-5½ (15.38m). His 18 team points from field events — in addition to his contributions as a member of the third-place 4×100 relay team — contributed significantly to UW-La Crosse taking home the men’s team title. Vazquez tied Defiance thrower Tom Postema with 18 points from the field events, but Vazquez’s DIII season’s best in the long jump was the tie-breaker.




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