2023 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Awards
The Hillsdale College women's track and field team capped another successful season in 2023 with a slew of All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference honors on Tuesday afternoon.
The G-MAC released its list of All-Conference honorees for Outdoor Track and Field on Tuesday, with 11 female athletes from Hillsdale, the runner-up at the G-MAC Outdoor Championships in May, making the cut and receiving awards.
Five Hillsdale College women's track and field athletes earned first-team All-G-MAC honors after bringing home individual titles at the G-MAC Outdoor Championships earlier this season. Leading the way was junior Eden Little, who won her third consecutive G-MAC title in the javelin this May. The program record-holder in the javelin, Little also earned her first qualifying berth to the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships, placing 14th in the nation in the event.
Joining Little on the first team is junior Shura Ermakov, who captured the 400m hurdles title in a program-record breaking time of 58.96 and also went on to earn All-American honors at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships in May, finishing fifth in the nation in the event. This is Ermakov's fifth All-G-MAC honor and her second first-team honor.
Hillsdale also got a strong showing from its distance crew, as both Margaret Scheske and Gwynne Riley earned first team honors. Scheske, who won the 3,000m steeplechase in the G-MAC Outdoor Championships, was named an All-Conference performer for the fourth time in her career and also went on to compete in the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships this May for the third time in the steeplechase as well.
Riley, meanwhile, captured the 1,500m run title at the G-MAC Outdoor Championships and receives the fifth All-G-MAC honor of her career, and her first first-team honor.
Rounding out Hillsdale's first team honorees is sophomore Reagan Dahlquist, who captured the G-MAC title in the high jump in 2023, and went on to finish 19th in the nation in the event at her first appearance at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships.
To their five first-team All-G-MAC honorees, the Chargers women also added six second-team honorees. Junior Liz Wamsley, who placed second in both the 1,500m run and 5,000m run, earned her seventh All-G-MAC honor in making the second team for the 2023 Outdoor season, capping a banner year that saw her earn All-American honors in cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field, including an eighth place finish in the nation in the 10,000m run at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships in May.
Wamsley is joined on the second team by sophomore Averi Parker, who took runner-up honors in the shot put at the 2023 G-MAC Outdoor Championships. A four-time NCAA DII National Meet qualifier, Parker also competed in two events at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships in May, finishing 14th in the nation in the shot put and 16th in the nation in the hammer throw.
Sophomore Neva Polo also earned the second All-G-MAC honor of her career with a runner-up finish in the heptathlon for the Chargers at the 2023 G-MAC Outdoor Championships, while all three members of Hillsdale's 4x400m relay team that joined Ermakov to finish runner-up at the G-MAC Championships – sophomore Reese Dragovich, junior Dakota Stamm and freshman Francesca Federici, all earned second-team All-G-MAC honors as well. That relay quartet also competed in the 4x400 at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships, placing 12th in the nation.