The Texas Lutheran women’s track & field program’s 2020 seniors
(Lawrenceville, Ga.) – The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is recognizing and honoring all of its senior spring sport student-athletes who had their final seasons cut short by the COVID-19 outbreak.
After the NCAA made the unprecedented decision on Thursday, March 12 to cancel all winter and spring championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, the SCAC Presidents Council decided to indefinitely suspend all regular season conference and non-conference competition.
Although the league held out hope that by only suspeding play a window of opportunity may present itself for an abbreviated spring season with some form of tournament play the following month, with the virus continuing to spread throughout the country which has caused campuses who had originally hoped to remain open to close for the semester, the 2020 athletics season has effectively ended for over a thousand of the league’s spring sport student-athletes along with the careers of 100+ seniors.
Though some of the league’s student-athletes may take advantage of a blanket waiver that would grant an additional season of participation, the SCAC office is honoring and recognizing all of its spring sport senior student athletes.
This installment focuses on the seniors in women’s track & field. Represented among these 27 student-athletes are:
40 SCAC All-Academic selections
2 USTFCCCA All-Academic honors
2 SCAC All-Sportsmanship selections
56 All-SCAC selections
1 SCAC Athlete-of-the-Meet
1 SCAC Track Athlete-of-the-Year
21 SCAC Championship titles
2 NCAA Championship qualfication performances
13 USTFCCCA All-Region selections
The six Texas Lutheran seniors on the list include Jocee Bennett, Maria Gonzalez, Baylea Herring, Ciara Rodriguez, Ashley Rynard, and Ashlee Hooks.
Favorite memory as a SCAC student-athlete:
Jocee Bennett – “Getting to compete with the team.”
Ashlee Hooks – “Winning the 4x400m relay at the last second at conference in 2019!”
Ashley Rynard – ” Getting All American in the 2019 indoor track and field championships. Getting a PR of 2:09 at the outdoor track and field championships in 2018. Our 4×4 getting first at conference last year (2019) and having everyone yelling from the stands and from the feild!”