BEREA, Ohio -- Junior Grayce Selig (Narberth, Pa./Springside School) captured her second All-America honor of the 2009-10 year on the last day of competition at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Competing in the 1,500-meter run, Selig lowered her school-record time for the fifth time this season by placing fourth with a mark of 4:28.72 at Baldwin Wallace College.
Selig and the rest of the field finished well behind defending champion Marie Borner of Bethel (Minn.) University, who won the race by three-and-a-half seconds in 4:23.85, a stadium record. Selig edged out MIT senior Jacqui Wentz for fourth place by 0.19 seconds. This is the second All-America honor of the year for Selig, who anchored the third-place distance medley relay team at the indoor championships in March. Selig had qualified for the finals in the 1,500-meter on Thursday with a time of 4:34.37, her fourth-fastest of the season. She finished sixth in her heat and had the sixth-fastest time overall.
In other action on Saturday, senior Suzanne Bernier (Hanson, Mass./Whitman-Hanson Regional) tied for 11th place in the high jump with a height of 1.62 meters (5 feet, 3 3/4 inches), short of her school-record of 1.68 meters (5 feet, 6 inches). Bernier cleared her first two heights (1.57, 1.62) on her first attempt, but was unable to clear 1.67, which could have gotten her into a tie for fifth place.
The five points scored by Selig tied Brandeis in the team standings for 44th place with Ithaca College and Gustavus Adolphus College out of the 77 schools which scored at the championships. The Judges were seventh among New England schools (MIT, 3rd, 37 pts; Williams, 6th, 33 pts; Tufts, 20th, 13.5 pts; Springfield, T25th, 12 pts; Westfield State, T31st, 9 pts; Bates, T39th, 6 pts) and second among University Athletic Association schools (Chicago, 9th, 26 pts).