SportsMarch 15, 2013
Southeast Missouri State gymnast Fosnow receives MIC weekly honor
Southeast Missouri State junior Megan Fosnow was named the Midwest Independent Conference's gymnast of the week Thursday. Fosnow scored a season-high 39.025 to win the all-around in last week's victory over Texas Woman's University. She shared the vault title with a score of 9.825 and took second on bars (9.800)...
Southeast Missouri State junior Megan Fosnow was named the Midwest Independent Conference's gymnast of the week Thursday.
Fosnow scored a season-high 39.025 to win the all-around in last week's victory over Texas Woman's University. She shared the vault title with a score of 9.825 and took second on bars (9.800).
Fosnow scored 9.725 or higher on three of her four events to total above 39 in the all-around for the second time in her career.
This is Fosnow's first weekly award of the season and third of her career.
The Redhawks are back in action tonight when they travel to 22nd-ranked Kent State for a quad meet that also features New Hampshire and Cornell.
Track and field
Southeast, following a strong indoor season, begins its outdoor campaign Saturday at the Rhodes Open in Memphis, Tenn.
Southeast's women finished first at the recent Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships, while the men were second.
The Redhawks' indoor season also was highlighted by junior Blake Carter becoming just the second athlete in program history to qualify for the Division I indoor national meet.
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Carter placed 13th in the long jump to earn second-team All-America honors.
Southeast athletes broke six school records during the indoor campaign, three each for the men and women.
Carter owns two of the records, in the long jump (25 feet, 6 inches) and 60 meters (6.76 seconds), while sophomore Reggie Miller set the high jump record (7-0 1/4).
On the women's side, school record-holders are sophomore Rebekah Lawson in the 5,000 (17:28.21), senior, Jill Schnurbusch in the pole vault (13-1 1/2) and junior Courtney Gapelu in the shot put (51-9).
Schnurbusch, a Notre Dame Regional High School graduate, has set Southeast's pole-vault record several times during her career.
Tennis
Southeast's women will look to get their OVC schedule started on the right foot this weekend with two home matches.
The Redhawks (2-2) begin conference play at 1 p.m. Saturday against Eastern Illinois. They face SIU Edwardsville at noon Sunday.
-- From staff reports
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