KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association has announced its first women's indoor track and field athletes of the week for the 2022-23 season.
 
Indoor Track Athlete of the Week – Isabella Hohl – Washburn   
Isabella Hohl set three school records in the first two weeks of the 2022-23 indoor track and field season in the 60m, 200m and 400m events. Competing at the Washburn Alumni Invitational in the first week of the season, Hohl won both the 60m prelims and the finals, finishing in a time of 7.48 in the final race picking up an NCAA provisional mark. Hohl then broke her own school record in the 200m with another NCAA provisional mark of 24.74 beating her previous mark of 24.84. The following week at the Mel Tjeerdsma Classic, Hohl finished second in the prelims in a school record time of 7.43, topping her record she set at the 2022 MIAA Championships which previously stood at 7.47. She did not run in the final of the event but made her first appearance in the 400m and broke the school record in that event in a time of 56.57 finishing fourth overall. Overall this season, she has ran the sixth-fastest 60m in Division II, the 11th-fastest 200m and the ninth-fastest 400m, all coming on NCAA provisional marks.
 
Indoor Field Athlete of the Week – Auna Childress – Pittsburg State
Auna Childress posted the top time in NCAA Division II this season in winning the triple jump discipline at the season-opening Crimson and Gold Invitational this past Saturday at the Robert W. Plaster Center. The Lawrence, Kan., native beat an elite field of 13 competitors in the invitational section of the triple jump with a best mark of 41 feet, 7 inches (12.67). She established a new meet record with her mark and she shattered the all-time Pitt State record by 14 inches.
 
NOTABLE TRACK PERFORMANCES
Tiffany Hughey – Northwest Missouri
Tiffany Hughey recorded a pair of NCAA provisional qualifying times in the women’s 200 and 400 races at the Mel Tjeerdsma Classic over the weekend. Hughey took first place overall in the women’s 400-meter dash as she crossed the finish line in 54.12. Hughey’s time is an NCAA Division II provisional qualifying time. Her time is also second-best in school history, the best time in the MIAA and currently ranks No. 2 in the nation this season. Hughey posted a NCAA Division II provisional qualifying time in the women’s 200-meter dash as she finished in 24.56, which is also the second-best in school history. It currently ranks as the second-best time in the MIAA and No. 5 in the country this season.
 
Sophia Myers – Lincoln
Sophia Myers won three events at the Mel Tjeerdsma Classic last Saturday, including helping the Blue Tigers’ 4x400m relay team win in 3:48.31, the quickest mark in the MIAA and currently the second-fastest in the country. Myers was also crowned champion of the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.51 which is currently the third-fastest time in the Division II. She also won the pentathlon with 3,564 points – the 14th-most points scored by a Division II athlete in 2022-23.
 
NOTABLE FIELD PERFORMANCES
Annalisa Barclay – Lincoln
Annalisa Barclay broke the meet record in the triple jump with her winning mark of 11.95m at the Mel Tjeerdsma Classic on Saturday. That mark is the second-best in the MIAA this season and currently ranks seventh nationally. That came after a very successful opening week in which Barclay won both the long jump (5.59m) and the triple jump (11.92m) against NCAA Division I competition at the University of Kansas’s Bob Timmons Challenge.
 
Madi Wulfekotter – Central Missouri
Madi Wulfekotter finished runner-up in the women’s pole vault at the Crimson & Gold Invitational last Saturday. The redshirt senior cleared a provisional height of 3.93m (12-10.75). Her mark is fourth-best in school history and the seventh-best in NCAA Division II this season.
 
Mallory Huber – Missouri Southern
Mallory Huber nearly set a school record of her own as she won the women’s weight throw this week at the Crimson and Gold Invite hosted by Pittsburg State. Huber won the event with an NCAA Provisional Qualifying Mark of 18.75m in her second attempt of the day. That mark is second-best all-time in MSSU weight throw history, just behind Danee Jones mark of 18.84m in 2005. It is also currently the fifth-best in Division II this year and tops in the MIAA.
 
ALSO NOMINATED
Track: Kiara Smith (Missouri Southern), Lyric Holman (Fort Hays State), Lara Murdock (Pittsburg State)

Field: Rachael Mayberry (Washburn), Mattie Rossi (Fort Hays State), Haley Schall (Nebraska Kearney), Megan McManis (Emporia State), Anna Gladstone (Northwest Missouri)