#Landmark10: Women's Outdoor Track & Field Moment
Courtesy of Moravian Sports Information
TOWSON, Md. --- The 2016-17 season marks the 10-year anniversary for the Landmark Conference. As part of the buildup to each sport's championship season, fans were asked to select their favorite moment from the first decade from a list created by members of the conference. Each winning moment will be announced prior to the conference championship.
After the final round of voting, Moravian's Anna Heim and Abigail Schafer going back-to-back as NCAA DIII National Champions in the pole vault outdoors was named the top moment with 92% of the votes. The duo also went back-to-back during the indoor seasons in 2010 and 2011.
Elizabethtown's Amanda Porter and Casey Meier competing at the NCAA Championships in 2015 came in second and Moravian's Abigail Schafer setting the NCAA Pole Vault record in 2012 came in third.
Senior Anna Heim of the Moravian College women's track & field team captured her second national championship of the year, winning the pole vault on the first day of the 2010 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field National Championship.
Heim captured the outdoor title at an NCAA meet record height of 4.13 meters (13 feet, 6 ½ inches) on her second attempt at the height. Heim, who won the NCAA DIII Indoor title back in March with an NCAA meet record of 4.16 meters (13 feet, 7 ¾ inches), earns All-America honors for the sixth time in eight trips to the NCAA meets during her career, and she continually improved outdoors in the pole vault, placing third as a sophomore, second last year before winning the event in 2010. Heim owned the all-time NCAA DIII best height of 4.17 meters (13 feet, 8 ¼ inches) set on May 13th at the 2010 ECAC Championships in Springfield, Massachusetts. Heim also became the third Moravian student-athlete and second female to win multiple national championships, joining Ozzie Brown, Jeff Cullingford and Christina Scherwin. The title is Moravian's 12th individual championship and the 11th from the track & field program.
Schaffer was seeded second in the event and passed on the first five heights before clearing her first attempt at 3.84 meters. Schaffer also needed just one attempt at 3.94 meters and the winning height of 4.14 meters (13 feet, seven inches), breaking Anna Heim '10 meet record set last spring. Schaffer and Catherine Street from Linfield College both made three attempts at 4.24 meters (13 feet, 11 inches) but neither was able to clear the bar. Schaffer captured the title over Street by needing just one vault at 4.14 meters and only missing once at 4.04 meters while Street missed once at 4.14 and twice at 4.04. Karin Fisher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology was third in the event at 4.04 meters.
Schaffer joins Heim, senior Eric Woodruff, Ozzie Brown, Jeff Cullingford and Christina Scherwin with two national championships, and her title is Moravian's 17th individual championship and the 16th from the track & field program. Woodruff will be in one final on Saturday, possibly two, as he looks to become the first Moravian student-athlete with three individual national titles.