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2017-18 Women's Track & Field Roster

Melina Gryschka

Melina Gryschka

  • Position
    Distance
  • Indoor Class
    Senior
  • Outdoor Class
    Sr.
  • Hometown
    Garbsen, Germany
  • Highschool
    Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium
  • Major
    Business Administration

Biography

Career Results

2017-18
CROSS COUNTRY:
Collected All-GLVC, All-Midwest Region and Academic All-GLVC honors after finishing third at the GLVC Championships and 23rd at the NCAA II Midwest Region Championships...competed in four meets, running top three for the Eagles in each event...was the Eagles' top finisher at the GLVC Championships. INDOOR TRACK & FIELD: Earned first-team All-GLVC accolades after winning the mile and finishing fifth in the 3,000 meters at the GLVC Championships...also competed in the 600 meters, 800 meters, 4x400-meter relay and distance medley relay during the indoor season...won the 600 meters at the Tom Hathaway Distance Classic and the 800 meters at the Tiger Small College Invitational...also helped USI's 4x400-meter relay team to a first-place finish at the Tiger Small College Invitational. OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD: Ran an NCAA II provisional qualifying time in the 1,500 meters...finished fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the GLVC Championships...also competed in the 2,000-meter steeplechase as well as the 5,000 meters...earned Academic All-GLVC honors.

TRANSFER
Comes to USI after spending the 2016-17 campaign at Eastern New Mexico University...finished third at the 2016 Lone Star Conference Cross Country Championships and 62nd at the NCAA Division II South Central Region Championships...earned a pair of All-America honors during the Indoor Track & Field season after finishing 12th in the 3,000 meters and eighth in the mile at the 2017 NCAA II Indoor Championships...won both events at the LSC Indoor Championships...was the LSC Wes Kittley Award winner as Outstanding Female Track Athlete after winning the 1,500 meters, 5,000 meters and 3,000-meter steelpelchase at the 2017 LSC Outdoor Championships...finished 14th in the steeplechase at the NCAA II Outdoor Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL
Graduated from Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium.