Brooke Pleger Named First Team All-American
June 11, 2013 | Women's Track and Field
Bowling Green, Ohio – The US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced that BGSU redshirt sophomore Brooke Pleger has been named a First-Team USTFCCCA All-American.
Honors are awarded to those who earn any portion of a point at the national championships or reach an eight-entrant field. Second-team All-America honors are handed out to those who place ninth through 16th at the national championship. Those who participated at the national championship but did not place in the top 16 are named honorable mention.
Pleger placed seventh at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field National Championships in the hammer throw, earning two points for BGSU. With those two points, Bowling Green tied for 53rd place and was second among all Mid-American Conference schools.
Pleger becomes the fifth student-athlete in BGSU women's track and field history to earn All-American status, joining Stephanie Heldt (1999), Huina Han (1998), Emily Cokinos (1997) and Beth Manson (1988 and 1989). She is one of two first-team All-Americans at BGSU this year, joining football's Chris Jones.
Only two Falcons have ever finished higher at the national championships than Pleger did. In 1998, Han finished sixth in the triple jump and Manson placed sixth in the discus in 1989. The last BGSU student-athlete to score at the meet was Heldt, who tied for seventh in the high jump in 2001.
Honors are awarded to those who earn any portion of a point at the national championships or reach an eight-entrant field. Second-team All-America honors are handed out to those who place ninth through 16th at the national championship. Those who participated at the national championship but did not place in the top 16 are named honorable mention.
Pleger placed seventh at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field National Championships in the hammer throw, earning two points for BGSU. With those two points, Bowling Green tied for 53rd place and was second among all Mid-American Conference schools.
Pleger becomes the fifth student-athlete in BGSU women's track and field history to earn All-American status, joining Stephanie Heldt (1999), Huina Han (1998), Emily Cokinos (1997) and Beth Manson (1988 and 1989). She is one of two first-team All-Americans at BGSU this year, joining football's Chris Jones.
Only two Falcons have ever finished higher at the national championships than Pleger did. In 1998, Han finished sixth in the triple jump and Manson placed sixth in the discus in 1989. The last BGSU student-athlete to score at the meet was Heldt, who tied for seventh in the high jump in 2001.
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