Sammel Meets NCAA Standard

Apr 25, 2006

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Allegheny College track and field sophomore Sarah Sammel (Pittsburgh/Bethel Park) cleared a height of 11’8” yesterday, setting a new school record and provisionally qualifying for the national meet. Conrad Rapp (Medway, Mass./ Worcester Academy) of the men’s team was also on hand, clearing 14’7” in the men’s vault.

Sammel and Rapp took first in their respective events, which were held Monday at Slippery Rock due to the cancellation of the pole vault at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Saturday competition.

Sammel, who exited the indoor season with a school record height of 11’5.75” and an NCAA Championship appearance, has now re-broken her outdoor mark, which she set on the way to winning the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships last season as a freshman.

Her new personal best has her seeded twelfth in the country as the national meet grows nearer.

Rapp’s height of 14’7” is a best on the season, and places him an inch ahead of his nearest conference rival in the current NCAC seedings.

Sammel, Rapp, and most of their teammates will head to Baldwin-Wallace this weekend to compete in their last invitational before NCACs on May 4-5. The remainder of the team will compete in the NCAC Combined Events Championships, where athletes will vie for the heptathlon and decathlon NCAC crowns.

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