FEMALE: Jen Cotten, Women's Track and Field (Fifth Year, Sciences, Barrie, Ont.)
Fifth-year track and field star Jen Cotten (Barrie, Ont.) won the women's long jump and indoor pentathlon and ran the anchor on the gold-winning 4x400 meter relay team at the OUA track and field championships at York on Feb. 26-27, guiding Western to a second-place team finish.
Cotten scored 38.5 of her team's 136 points.
In the pentathlon, Cotten won with 3,718 points, placing first in three events - the long jump, 60-meter hurdles and tied for the win in high jump. She also placed in third with a shot-put of 9.95 meters, an event she has shown great improvement in over the past 12 months, and was in third place in the 800-meter race.
Outside the pentathlon, Cotten jumped 5.85 meters to win the long jump, ran a time of 8.55 seconds to place second in the women's 60-meter hurdles and ran the anchor on the women's 4x400 meter relay team which captured first place.
She added points for her team with fifth-place showings in the women's 600-meter race and women's high jump. Cotten posted CIS standards in the long jump, 60m hurdles and her best event, the pentathlon.
The Cotten File
Women Indoor Pentathlon
1st place, Jen Cotten (3718 pts)
- Shot Put: 3rd place, 9.95m
- Long Jump: 1st place, 5.72m
- High Jump, T-1st place, 1.65m
- 60mH, 1st place, 8.63 seconds
- 800m, 3rd place, 2 minutes, 34.03 seconds
Women Long Jump
1st place, Jen Cotten (5.85m)
Women 4x400 Meter Relay
1st place, Western (3:50.81): 1. Jenessa Olson, 2. Jen Perrault, 3. Lisa Grieve, 4.Jen Cotten
Women 60 Meter Hurdles
2nd place, Jen Cotten (8.55)
Women 600 Meter
5th place, Jen Cotten (1:34.21)
Women High Jump
5th place, Jen Cotten (1.61m)
