Feb. 9, 2007

Anthony Earns Horizon League Track Athlete of the Week Honors

    Indianapolis -- Youngstown State freshman Alisha Anthony has been named the Horizon League's Female Track and Field Athlete of the Week for her performance last week at the Akron Open, the league announced.
    Anthony, a Van Wert, Ohio, native, won the long jump in two different divisions and earned a third-place finish for the Penguins in her last meet. She topped 19 feet in the long jump for the first time in her career, posting a first-place mark of 19-1 1/2 in the elite gold division to win by more than eight inches. She also won the blue division of the long jump with a mark of 18-3, finished third in the triple jump (34-2 1/4) and posted a personal-best time of 8.03 in the 60m dash.
    Anthony's distance of 19-1 1/2 is more than a foot better than any other posted by a league jumper this season, is 1 foot, 3 inches better than the winning mark at last year's conference championship, and ranks her as the third-best long jumper in YSU history.
    Anthony is the third YSU track and field athlete to earn the league's weekly award. Bethany Anderson was named the year's first athlete of the week on Jan. 17, and Aaron Merrill earned the award a week later.
    The Penguins will compete at the Findlay Open and All-Ohio Championships this weekend.