{"id":7529,"date":"2019-05-10T10:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2019-05-29T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:44:04","slug":"harvey-mudd-athletes-scholars-earn-sciac-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2019\/05\/10\/harvey-mudd-athletes-scholars-earn-sciac-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Athletes\/Scholars Earn SCIAC Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the SCIAC Championships on April 27\u201328, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track and field teams were victorious, with the women edging Redlands by three points and the men running away from the pack to defeat Pomona-Pitzer by 40 points.\u00a0The Stags and Athenas combined to win 10 of the 40 individual events, and Harvey Mudd students earned several distinctions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7531\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7531\" class=\"wp-image-7531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/EgerterTF.jpg\" alt=\"Harvey Mudd track and field athlete Aubrey Egerter '21\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egerter &#8217;21<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the CMS women&#8217;s track and field team, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/wtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/griffith_sabrine_plcq\">Sabrine Griffith<\/a> (engineering) was among the eight Athenas who earned the All-SCIAC distinction for a top-three finish at the league championships. She shared one All-SCIAC distinction with fellow Mudder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/wtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/egerter_aubrey_8c1b\">Aubrey Egerter<\/a> \u201921 (engineering), who is also part of the 4&#215;100 relay team which placed second. Griffith was also honored for her second-place finish in the long jump.<\/p>\n<p>First year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/christensen_miles_b4b0\">Miles Christensen<\/a> earned the SCIAC Men&#8217;s Track and Field Newcomer of the Year Award, and was one of six Harvey Mudd students who were among those receiving all-SCIAC honors for top-three finishes. Christensen earned the honor after an impressive freshman season as a distance runner on both the cross country and track and field teams. He won the 5000-meter title at the SCIAC Track and Field Championships, using an impressive finishing kick to go from 10 strides back with a half-lap to go into a win of over six seconds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7543\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7543\" class=\"wp-image-7543 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/sciac-honors-recipients.jpg\" alt=\"SCIAC honors recipients (men)\" width=\"790\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/sciac-honors-recipients.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/sciac-honors-recipients-300x57.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/sciac-honors-recipients-768x146.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan &#8217;22, Hassman &#8217;21, Ives &#8217;20, Lim &#8217;20, Peterson &#8217;20<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other Mudders joining Christensen as individual champions at the SCIAC Championships were 4&#215;400 relay team member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/morgan_keizo_24km\">Keizo Morgan<\/a> \u201922 (computer science) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/peterson_reese_wicr\">Reese Peterson<\/a> \u201920 (engineering\/shot put), who also earned All-SCIAC honors for taking second place in the hammer and discus.<\/p>\n<p>Also earning All-SCIAC distinction for the Stags were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/ives_wilson_qsp4\">Wilson Ives<\/a> \u201920 (engineering) in the 1500 (third place), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/hassman_evan_ueof\">Evan Hassman<\/a> \u201921 (engineering) in the steeplechase (second place) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/bios\/lim_tse_yang_9mbb\">Tse Yang Lim<\/a> \u201920 (computer science) in the triple jump (third place).<\/p>\n<p>CMS hosts the Claremont Multi-Duals May 9\u201310, and several athletes will head to the Occidental Invitational May 11 as they try to earn NCAA qualifying marks for the national championships later this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmsathletics.org\/sports\/mtrack\/2018-19\/releases\/20190429q62qto\">Video highlights of SCIAC Track and Field Championships from CMS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the SCIAC Championships on April 27\u201328, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track and field teams were victorious, with the women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":7530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,11,12,27,30],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-cs","category-computer-science","category-engineering","category-sport","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}