GENEVA, Ohio—Lauren Roncone (North Canton / Hoover) earned All-American honors with a sixth-place finish in the long jump along with Brit McCauley breaking her school record in the 1,500-Meters for the Mount Union women's track and field team Thursday at the NCAA Division III Championships at Spire Institute.
 
Roncone's first jump of 18-feet 9-inches on the day earned her the All-American status. This is Roncone's second outdoor All-American honor as she earned sixth in the 4x100-meter relay last year.
 
McCauley qualified to the finals in the 1,500-Meters in the process breaking her school record running a 4:31.65.
 
Kennady Gibbins (Navarre / Fairless) sits in first in the heptathlon after day one of completion. She finished first in the high jump, shot put and 200-Meters while getting fourth in the 100-Meter hurdles to take a lead of 190 points into day two.
 
The quartet of Cortni Arp (Copley), Kenadee Wayt (Wheeling, W. Va. / Wheeling Central), Mary Mason (Alliance / Marlington) and Madison Miles (Padua / Padua Franciscan) qualified to the finals Saturday with a fourth-place finish in a time of 3:47.49.  
 
The men's quartet of Jared Storm (Barberton), Tyler Gill (Greenville, Pa. / Reynolds), Justin Knoch (Canton / GlenOak) and Matthew McBride (Conneaut) ran the top qualifier time in 3:12.29 to advance to Saturday's finals.
 
Wayt, Arp, Roncone, and Miles finished 11th in the 4x100-Meter relay.
 
Gibbins also competed in the long jump and finished 14th with a jump of 18-feet 1.5-inches.  
 
Racing on Thursday for the Raiders was Michaelina Terranova (North Jackson / Jackson-Milton) grabbing 10th in the 400-Meter hurdles, Sidney Rambo (Columbiana / Columbiana Crestview) finished 11th in the discus, Wayt grabbing 19th in the 200-Meters and Megan Wertz (Canton / GlenOak) in the 1,500-Meters finishing 21st.
 
Mount Union will have Gibbins in the pentathlon and high jump, Wayt in the 100-Meters, Miles, McBride and Storm in the 400-Meters and the men's high jump trio of Tanner Slack (New Concord / John Glenn), Evan Hershberger (Dalton) and Elijah Cobb (Mansfield / St. Peter's) competing on Friday afternoon.