MAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
Oniesha Clarke (Misericordia / So. / Waterbury, Conn.) was named the Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year at the MAC Championships on Saturday. Clarke won gold in both the 60-meter dash and 200-meter dash. She broke her own conference championship record time in the 60 with a new record time of 7.63 seconds. That time also ranks second in Division III. The sophomore won the 200 with a time of 25.88 seconds. On Friday, Clarke was the anchor leg on the Cougars’ winning 4x200-meter relay team that won with a time of 1:45.97, just missing the conference championship record time of 1:45.45 set in 2012. Clarke added a silver medal in the women’s long jump on Friday with a mark of 5.50 meters.