BEREA, Ohio - Simon Heys and Brady Vilvens picked up All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) honors as the Wilmington College men's track & field team finished out the 2023 OAC Indoor Championships on Saturday.
Heys, who won the 5,000-meter run on Friday, finished runner-up in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 8:17.11. Though Alex Phillip of John Carroll University won the race, Heys broke his own school record, set on Jan. 29, 2022, by over two seconds.
Vilvens leaped a season-best 6' 4.25" to take third in the high jump. Christian Pfeiffer of host Baldwin Wallace University won the event by clearing 6' 8". Vilvens also competed in the triple jump, placing 10th with a leap of 41' 10.5". The Quakers had two other top-eight finishes in field events on Saturday, both of which came in the shot put. Mike Soltis's heave of 48' 9.5" was good for fourth place while Brett Brooks took eighth (45' 9.75").
On the track, Noah Tobin finished in seventh in the 3,000-meter run by crossing the finish line in 8:36.01. Tate Yoder competed in the event as well, placing 13th, while Eric Reynolds ran the 1,000-meter run in 2:43.85.
As a team, Wilmington finished in fifth place with 60 points, 14 clear of the host Yellow Jackets. The University of Mount Union won its 11th consecutive title with 243 points with John Carroll finished second (140 points), Ohio Northern University third (90 points) and Otterbein University fourth (73 points).
