2023-24 G-MAC Indoor Track and Field All-Conference Awards
A solid performance for the Hillsdale College men's and women's track and field teams at the 2024 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Indoor Championships hosted by Ashland at the end of February saw several Chargers athletes receive All-G-MAC honors for their finishes in the meet.
A total of five Hillsdale College athletes -- four women and one man -- received first-team All-G-MAC honors with several athletes repeating in recognition from the previous year.
Junior Liz Wamsley, a returning first team All-G-MAC indoor track and field honoree, received the honor for the second time in 2024, thanks to G-MAC titles in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meter run. Wamsley capped her 2023-24 Indoor season by competing in the 5,000m run at the NCAA DII Championships this past weekend.
Another repeat first-team All-G-MAC indoor honoree was sophomore Ben Haas, who won the men's weight throw for the second-straight season with a school-record mark of 21.88 meters. Like Wamsley, Haas also represented the Chargers on the national level, placing sixth in the weight throw at the 2024 NCAA DII Championships to earn All-American honors for the second-straight season.
In her final indoor championship, senior Emily Gerdin also earned first-team All-G-MAC honors indoors for the second time in her career and the first time since 2021 by winning the triple jump title.
Two more Hillsdale College women stepped up from second-team honors in 2023 to first-team honors this season in 2024 by winning G-MAC Championships. Junior Shura Ermakov took home the G-MAC title in the 400m dash in a school-record setting time after finishing runner-up in 2023 to take home first team honors, and also earned All-American honors at the NCAA DII Championships last weekend with a sixth place finish in the nation in the 400m dash. Additionally, junior Neva Polo took first in the pentathlon with a school-record mark as well after finishing second in 2023, earning first-team All-G-MAC honors for the first time in her career.
Along with the five first-team honorees, junior Louisa Klaserner also earned second-team All-G-MAC honors thanks to a runner-up finish in the 60m hurdles in a school-record time of 8.65 seconds. It's Klaserner's first All-G-MAC honor in her career.
Hillsdale now moves on to the outdoor track and field season, which is already underway as a small group of Chargers compete at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina today and tomorrow.