Roanoke, Va. -- For the fourth consecutive year and the 32nd occasion in program history, the University of Lynchburg men's indoor track and field squad earned the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship title!

The Hornets had 12 of their athletes on the men's and women's teams to claim gold medals on the podium tonight. The men's crew tallied a whopping 213 points to secure another conference banner, the only men's squad to hit triple digits in 2025. Lynchburg blazed by the competition, beating out Washington and Lee by 122 points. The Generals finished second with 91 team points while the Bridgewater Eagles rounded out the podium with 78 points.

Lynchburg's women's squad took home third place, finishing with 116 team points. Washington and Lee topped the women's side with 195.75 points, while Bridgewater concluded with 128 points for second place. 

The mile was a Lynchburg special on the men's side as the Hornets took seven of the top eight positions, including the top four finishes. Graduate Tor Hotung-Davidsen notched an impressive time of 4:07.59 to take first, setting a new meet record and snagging the 18th-best time in DIII this season. Marko Kovacevic (4:12.37), junior Chasen Hunt (4:23.06), sophomore Randy White (4:23.94) crossed the line just after Tor to claim the top four places. Senior Cooper Hurst (4:24.47), freshman Jack Weddle (4:24.95) and graduate Josh Fretwell (4:25.58) finished in sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

The 800m event was all Hornets, all four of the top spots and six of the top ten spots were taken by Lynchburg. Hotung-Davidsen claimed first with a time of 1:56.27, while Hunt (1:57.44), White (1:57.66) and junior Jamison Mantooth (1:57.70) filed in right behind Tor. Junior Carter Herklots took sixth in the event with a time of 1:58.23 and freshman Bradley Bernard rounded out the top 10 with a 2:01.70 finish.

Hunt topped the competition in the 3k with a time of 8:38.91. Hurst clocked in a time of 8:40.34 for third place while Kovacevic followed behind him with a time of 8:42.32 for fourth overall. Freshman Alex Jordan, the 2024 Cross Country ODAC Rookie of the Year, clocked in a time of 15:01.45 in the 5k with graduate Jonathan Cobb following in fourth with a 15:04.04 finish.

The DMR team of Fretwell, Koenig, Herklotz and Hunt took home the gold on Sunday with a time of 10:36.20, beating out Roanoke's DMR crew by over two seconds. That time places seventh on the all-time Lynchburg records list. Sophomore Elijah Rose earned first place in the high jump with a mark of 1.98m. 

Freshman Tristan Wright has been dusting the competition all year in the 60m dash and picked the best time of the year to have his best time of the year, running a 6.76 in the 60m finals to snag first place, with the next closest finisher a full tenth of a second behind him. His performance was not just a personal record, not only a meet record, not solely an ODAC record, but was the fifth-best time in NCAA Division III this season. Wright also placed second in the 200m dash, breaking the previous meet record of 22.01 but falling just short of first place by three hundredths.

Sophomore Micah Leech snagged first place in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.33, beating out the next closest competitor by five hundredths and tying the third-best time in program history. Leech also snagged first in the long jump with a 7.00m-mark, notching the eighth-best performance in program history.

Senior Jacob Hodnett topped the leaderboard in the 400m dash with a time of 49.90, snapping his previous record of 50.07 and moving up to eighth in the school history record book. Junior Michael Hamm trailed close behind for fourth with a time of 50.18.

Graduate Julian Powell claimed second in the pole vault with a 4.31m mark. Freshman Demetri Hinton snagged third in the triple jump at 13.77m while Leech came in fifth with a 13.37m performance.

On the women's side, graduate Betsy Mohnkern grabbed first place in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.90, just one hundredth off of her personal-best set earlier this season. She also was the leadoff of the 4x400m team that placed third. Her partners included junior Rylee Turner, sophomore Anna Miller and sophomore Hannah Edwards, and the group finished with a time of 4:06.13.

Turner also took third in the 60m dash with a time of 7.96, which ties the third best time in program history, and claimed fourth in the 200m with a time of 26.20, which is the solely the third quickest time in the school's record books. 

Edwards slotted in at third place in the 400m with a time of 1:00.02 and was part of the DMR team that placed second overall with a time of 12:47.99. The other members of that crew consisted of Miller, freshman Mya Baker and freshman Adelyn Carpenter.

Senior Allison Dell was the second-place finisher in the 3k with a time of 10:06.47, which beat out the previously held meet record before this year's competition. Dell secured second place in the 5k as well with a time of 17:52.02. Carpenter (10.26.89) and junior Delaney Saulsbury (10:41.31) also placed within the top 10 in the 3k at seventh and eighth, respectively. 

Junior Kacey Kelly demolished the triple jump with a mark of 12.12m, the sixth-best performance in DIII this season and the new conference record. She smashed the previous program record and set a new meet record. Graduate Allison Bobst set the 38th-best mark in DIII this season and took first place in the pole vault with a 3.56m-mark. 

Kenzie Swicegood put up impressive performances in the weight throw and shot put, placing inside the top four in both. In the weight throw, she had a mark of 15.78m to place second, the third best performance in program history. She claimed fourth in the shot put at 11.75m, the seventh-best mark in the school record books.

Cooper Hurst was awarded the ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year award on Sunday for his academic and athletic achievements throughout his collegiate career. More on Hurst's prestigious award will be covered once the remaining ODAC special award winners are announced later this week.

To view the complete results from the two-day championship meet, click here.

With the conference season wrapped up, the Hornets look ahead to regional and national qualifiers next weekend. Some members of the team will head to Boston for the Tufts National Qualifier while others will travel to Winchester, Va. for the South Region Final Qualifier, both will take place on Saturday, March 8.

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