ROCHESTER —
The accolades and accomplishments keep pouring in for Barker’s Emma Dewart.
The Ithaca College junior automatically qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the heptathlon over the weekend and broke a 27-year-old school record at the NYSCTC Heptathlon at Nazareth College.
Dewart, the daughter of Jonathan and Amy Dewart, won the event with 4,842 points. Sophomore teammate Amanda Rissmeyer (Watchung/Millington, N.J.) placed second with a provisional point total of 4,163 and junior Ashley Dlubac (Merrimack Valley/Loudon, N.H.) was fourth with 3,680 points.
The Ithaca record was previously set on May 5, 1984 by Carly Senn with 4,768 points.
On Day One of the weekend competition, Dewart finished first of seven in the 100 hurdles in an NCAA automatic and school record time of 14.42 seconds and in the 200 dash in :25.96, while knotting with Rissmeyer to finish atop the high jump standings with a clear of 1.62 meters. Both Bombers hit the ECAC qualifier with their high jump clears. Dewart also threw 9.85 meters in the shot put.
Dewart concluded competition on Monday by winning the long jump with an ECAC-qualifying mark of 5.56 meters. She also won the 800 in 2:28.49 and finished with a mark of 26.62 meters in the javelin.
Rissmeyer finished the hurdles in 16.71, the 200 in 27.97 and the shot put in 10.29 meters on day one before recording a 5.14-meter mark in the long jump, 33.63 meters in the javelin and clocking a 2:51.45 800 run.
Ithaca will next compete this weekend at the NYSCTC Outdoor Championships hosted by RPI.
A physical education and health major at Ithaca, Dewart is a 2008 graduate of Barker High School, where she was coached by Bill Wilson. She earned five total varsity letters in track & field with the Lady Raiders and was a three-time team captain.
As a senior, she was Barker’s MVP and Section VI champion in the high jump. Dewart also lettered in soccer and basketball.
A two-time 2010 indoor All-American, Dewart finished second in the pentathlon and third in the high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships last year. The Empire 8 champion in the high jump and a member of the victorious 1,600-meter relay, Dewart was named the Empire 8 Indoor Field Athlete of the year.
While twice earning Empire 8 Athlete of the Week awards, Dewart tallied indoor season-bests of 3,508 points in the pentathlon, 9.34 seconds in the 60 hurdles, 8.31 in the 60 dash, 8.37 in the 55 hurdles, 7.47 in the 55 dash, 2:28.64 in the 800 run, ran on a 1:45.56 800 relay and a 4:06.98 1,600 relay, threw 10.00 meters in the shot and tallied jumps of 1.67 meters and 5.53 meters in the high and long jumps, respectively.
During the 2010 outdoor season, Dewart was named USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. Dewart, who participated in the heptathlon and 100 hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, competing in 10 individual events throughout the outdoor season and a pair of relays. In doing so she was named the NYSCTC Field Athlete of the Meet at the state championships, Empire 8 Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year and was honored on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
A two-time Empire 8 Athlete of the Week, Dewart won five events at the NYSCTC Championships and was the runner-up in another, while also winning four events at the conference championships. On the track she tallied season-bests of 12.91 in the 100 dash, 14.56 in the 100 hurdles, 25.65 in the 200 dash, 1:07.73 in the 400 hurdles, 2:28.58 in the 800 run and ran the second leg of Ithaca’s 49.69 400 relay and 4:02.47 1,600 relay.
In the field events, Dewart recorded season-best marks of 1.70 meters in the high jump, 5.54 meters in the long jump, 9.43 meters in the shot and 29.45 meters in the javelin. She also tallied a season-best mark in the heptathlon of 4,724 points.
As an Ithaca freshman, she became her school’s first-ever all-American in the pentathlon after placing seventh at the NCAA Championships.
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